Bizzaboo

JANUARY 6, 2025

From choosing the right venue to coordinating speakers, managing schedules, and curating meaningful experiences, conference management requires a combination of creativity, strategic thinking, and an incredible eye for detail. To enhance efficiency and impact, consider opportunities to automate key processes.

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Endless Events

MARCH 17, 2020

Make sure your virtual event covers everything they were coming to experience such as continuing education classes, the speakers they were looking forward to, networking opportunities, and product demos. Instead of banners or signage give sponsors virtual graphics that can go up before a speaker or session goes live.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Now that virtual events are fairly normalized, it’s never been easier to access a global audience. With the power of virtual events, event planners all of a sudden had a chance to reach a larger audience and get their name out there. Sometimes, that brings about a pandemic, and other times, it increases your ROI.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

What makes a hybrid event synchronous is that both hybrid audiences experience the same event, at the same time. But this is no easy feat; research shows that 46% of event organizers say that speakers struggle to simultaneously engage a virtual and in-person audience. Why asynchronous events? Each gets full, undivided attention.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Live streaming events is a great way to expand your reach and make your content and programming available to a new audience. There’s a lot of benefits to live streaming events, but truly successful live streamed events are more about audience engagement and less about technology. Do you want your remote audience to be able to network?

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Endless Events

APRIL 19, 2021

Very little thought went into the virtual audience’s experience, their ability to network amongst themselves and the other attendees, the quality of the stream, and the way content was delivered. On the other hand, spokes will enable smaller groups of attendees, speakers, exhibitors, and staff to convene. Model C: The Planet.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Now, we have hybrid events and we’re going back to in-person events , but we can still keep that virtual component for those that aren’t able to travel to events.” ” “So you may have some of your attendees in-person again, but a lot of folks aren’t ready to travel or they are working from home.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 17, 2019

Spread Information to a Larger Audience. Only people who live or travel to their location can attend. Expert sessions can be spread far and wide, increasing not only the reach of your brand or a particular speaker, but of the information itself. More speaker invitations?), Generate More Leads. More product purchases?

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 30, 2021

After a promising but brief return to in-person-only events in the spring, the Delta and Omicron variants forced many event organizers to renavigate a hybrid event landscape to engage both digital and physical audiences. Even as their hybrid events remain a work in progress, many organizers now see their long-tail potential.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 15, 2024

Event organizers are worrying about increasing costs and attendance numbers at their events this year, according to responses to a recent survey conducted by AAE Speakers, a speakers bureau and talent agency. Here are some other takeaways from the survey results: Who Chooses Speakers?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2021

To make the journey a little smoother, we asked some of the top-rated speakers from our Smart Meetings Experiences over the last year to share the one thing you should do right now to position yourself to thrive next year. Speaker, Drummer for P!NK, Keynote Speaker/Bestselling Author, “The Fine Art of Small Talk” (Hachette).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Related : Most Millennials View Business Travel as Perk. Audience members may contribute additional story elements (such as a story made into a movie, and an interactive website and webisodes). “I The post Smart Meeting Speaker: ‘Gig Economy’ Requires Multiple Ways of Engaging People appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2022

Read More : Beware the Public Wi-Fi Network: 6 Ways to Practice Cybersecurity While Traveling. Will you have any featured speakers? Think through how you want to display your speakers, whether they are serving in the keynote, breakout, or support role. Should those speakers be linked to any sessions? Social Media.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 24, 2021

As the industry pivoted to virtual events, virtual audience engagement became one of the most talked-about challenges. TVT was all about building passionate fan groups and creating premium experiences and evangelical audiences that would then spread the word.” Is it even possible? Having the person there is important.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Production and event management companies can travel across the country to help execute your event, too. Event production pros will often travel to your event, so you aren’t saddled with local providers. Both event production and event management companies will help you simplify your event — albeit to a different degree.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 30, 2023

He traveled the world and led flash mobs in 12 countries. “I I was alone, I had a big speaker with me, and I would just go into the streets. People certainly can be engaged when they are sitting and observing a speaker, demonstration or performance, but their heart rates are low.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

No – the magic of events lies in the overall experience your audience has. But he’s been to many conferences both as an attendee as well as a keynote speaker that he knows all about engagement and networking at events. Our guest is Mark Herschberg , an MIT instructor, the author of The Career Toolkit , speaker, and CTO.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The head of a major speakers bureau provides insight on hot topics, interesting formats, and rising cost concerns for keynoters and other featured speakers. MeetingsNet: Now that the post-pandemic business landscape has some stability, what is different in what corporate groups are looking to get from their speakers?

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

(Whatever Media Group) Last week, when I listened in on NYU Stern professor Scott Galloways annual trend forecast webinar, one prediction caught my ear: Consumers growing reliance on AI may mean that travelers increasingly look there, too, for advice on what to do and see and where to stay. A prime example: TikTok.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

But to mesmerize your audience with something they haven’t seen before, meeting planners should invest time developing a productive relationship with an AV partner. Read More : 10 Questions to Ask a Potential Event Vendor Your AV provider’s technicians will be interacting with your staff, your presenters and your audience.

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Endless Events

APRIL 30, 2021

Now, venues also play a big part in promoting attendee safety and facilitating the technology necessary to engage the virtual audience. There’s a considerable portion of your audience attending remotely, be it from their homes or other spokes. It’s no longer just about the experience taking place on-site.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Speaking Industry Benchmark Report produced by AAE Speakers Bureau compiles data from both event organizers and keynote speakers to better understand the issues and trends affecting the speaker-booking process. For many events, speakers will be chosen based on outcomes and relevance versus celebrity alone.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 5, 2019

. “I did this just last week, an event here in the UK that I was speaking at, where the organizer didn’t have a Q&A software, but I wanted to use that to engage with the audience. So, you don’t have to dive in with both feet, you don’t have to dive in with a ton of money” Audience Engagement Technology.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 11, 2022

When live events first returned, people were excited to be together, but traveling and walking the show floor can be exhausting. 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. “We People pay attention.

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Endless Events

MAY 23, 2018

More than ever we are seeing conference breakout sessions used to create a more personal feel that feeds off participation and involvement from the audience. Allowing choice results in more participation and higher levels of audience engagement because the audience is genuinely interested in the topic. Let’s jump in!

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 17, 2022

A recent article on Forbes.com picks the brains of interesting players in the meetings and events world: talent agencies and speaker bureaus. Speakers must be skilled enough to make their sessions more of a discussion than a one-way presentation.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2022

Events and conferences often embody all four sectors of the hospitality industry: entertainment and recreation, food and beverage, lodging and travel and tourism. Keep your Audience Engaged. Read More: Winning at Maximizing Virtual Audience Engagement: 10 Fun Ideas from Dahlia El Gazzar . Out-of-the-box Entertainment .

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Endless Events

MARCH 15, 2019

Think about it, it costs a lot of money to go to large events from travel to event tickets, and before investing in it people want a taste! You can live stream free to social media even with a smartphone, but if you really want to impress your virtual audience you will need to up to production value with professional live steam.

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Endless Events

MARCH 12, 2021

Work-life balance, reducing commuting, and cutting down on travel expenses once the pandemic subsides are all cited by PwC UK’s chief executive, Kevin Ellis as positive aspects that VR technology can bring about. Virtual experiences have already proved that travel, accommodation, and food costs cease to be a problem.

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Endless Events

MARCH 31, 2020

Especially because one of the biggest concerns with virtual events is audience engagement. Not only will one keep your event interesting, but it will also make your audience happier and eager for more. And as a remote emcee, world traveler, and industry icon, he has plenty to teach. Helping Speakers In Virtual Events.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The challenge is designing events that speak to the needs of an audience that changed over the last three years. When considering audiences who historically couldn’t physically or financially attend, the idea of a hybrid event comes into play again. Ask and Deliver: “Ask your audience what they prefer,” said O’Grady.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Whether it be a live band, aerial artists or fire dancers, keynote speakers or moderators, entertainment is an important part of any event to wow your audience and keep them engaged. Between parking, mileage, airfare, taxis, hotel room nights, meals, and per diems—travel expenses can add up. Entertainment. Mobile App.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 27, 2022

To account for the diversity of habits, personalities and wants, American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) put together a list of the most common “personas” and provided suggestions on how to make every type of attendee feel comfortable, included, engaged and prepared during your event. Main Takeaways. Virtual Events.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 3, 2018

There are many ways to give your staff a boost like rewarding them with incentive travel. On top of engaging your employees, you also need to engage your audience. How to Nail Incentive Travel. Incentive travel, sometimes dubbed “motivational travel”, is a good way to reward and show appreciation for loyal event staff.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 1, 2022

Former Aramark executive Cathy Schlosberg was named senior vice president of marketing in June of 2019 and former Enterprise Holdings Assistant Vice President of Global Travel and Meetings, Amanda Armstrong, took the role of senior vice president of brand and community engagement at Encore in January of 2022.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

How it impacts you: Automated back-end processes allow you to better manage speakers, sponsors, staff and meetings. million investment, Glisser Elements SKD will soon have more options for integrating low-code video streaming, slide-sharing and audience interaction for their websites and intranets. What: With help from a fresh $4.9

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Endless Events

MARCH 21, 2022

Managing speakers, volunteers, and attendees, while on a tight schedule. It’s essential to keep moving the audience around to different experiences, getting them involved, and keeping it interesting,” says Amy. Presentation mode is more of a production style where you’ve got a speaker on stage.

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