Remove Audience Remove Insurance Remove Trends
article thumbnail

The 2024 Guide for Financial and Insurance Meetings

Smart Meetings

Experts offer tips and ideas for meeting professionals As the year slowly comes to a close, many financial and insurance meeting planners may be thinking about what they should be keeping on their radar. They’re less of a captive audience and more of a savvy travel consumer.” “I with 6-12 months out, 15.7%

Insurance 246
article thumbnail

Labor Day Spotlight: The Growing Demand for Specialized Freelance Meeting Planners

Smart Meetings

How the gig economy is impacting the events industry In honor of Labor Day, Smart Meetings chatted with Tracy Judge, founder and CEO of Soundings , to get the latest scoop on the trends currently emerging within the freelance meeting planner gig economy. Event Marketing Roles : Specialists who promote and market events to target audiences.

Planner 233
MICE professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

What Meeting Professionals Can Learn from the Metaverse

Smart Meetings

She shared the results of a recent survey of event planners about the trends that will impact events in 2022. When they are physically in the audience, don’t make them give up the interactive tools they have gotten used to using, warned Leary-Perez. An event platform is an insurance policy,” said Leary-Perez with a wink.

Meeting 279
article thumbnail

SITE Global Conference Celebrated 50 Years of Transformational Experiences in NYC 

Smart Meetings

Then we are thrown off course by something we never saw coming…This is the point where we have to ask ourselves if we are doomed for a crash landing or if we are willing to learn to love the turbulence,” she challenged the audience. Andre Norman danced out the emotions from his presentation with the audience onstage.

article thumbnail

18 Event Trends Poised to Shake Up Hospitality & Group Business in 2018

Social Tables

Y ou need to see into the future and stay ahead of the event trends that will inevitably make or break your business. Using a combination of research and survey data, we’ve rounded up the 18 most important trends set to hit planners, hotels and venues in 2018. Three Downward Trends for 2018. Better buckle up! HOW TO STAY AHEAD.

Trends 167
article thumbnail

‘Networking Is a Verb’

Convene by PCMA

Actually, there are a few, according to Freeman’s most recent 2024 Event Organizer Trends Report. And it needs to be looked at as almost career insurance. What’s the biggest disconnect between how organizers program networking at their events and what their attendees actually want? How do we unpack it and think differently?

article thumbnail

State of Virtual Meeting Tools

Smart Meetings

A streaming option can serve larger, more geographically diverse and executive audiences, act as a flexible insurance policy in the event a new threat grounds attendees while providing valuable data about behavior. But she also has clients who are highlighting just a handful of sessions for at-home audiences.

Meeting 276