Best of 2024: Sustainability
Smart Meetings
DECEMBER 11, 2024
They discussed how they each have created actionable sustainability strategies and seen successful outcomes at their companies.
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Smart Meetings
DECEMBER 11, 2024
They discussed how they each have created actionable sustainability strategies and seen successful outcomes at their companies.
Techsytalk
JULY 28, 2016
28 July 2016 — Yesterday morning, via various outlets, a heavily promoted industry conference scheduled to take place 22-24 August announced it is cancelling the show just one month before the conference. The Coming Together of Event Minds. CTRL] +[ALT] + [DEL] : A Collaborative Global Event Reboot. Attendance.
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Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
As Megan Henshall , strategic lead for Google’s global events team and co-founder of The Neu Project, explained, helping this majority-minority community participate fully is not a compliance problem; it is a business opportunity. DeWitt suggests checking out the free National Network Hospitality page.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
When 684 meetings industry leaders met in Boston this week for Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals’ (FICP) 2022 Annual Conference, the theme at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport was “Creating Our New History” and set milestones—they did. The 2023 FICP Annual Conference will be staged Nov.
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 7, 2024
As Chief Event Strategy Officer for the American Society of Hematology (ASH), Bill Reed, FASAE, CMP brings 30,000 meeting professionals from more than 110 countries together to share research about the causes and treatments of blood disorders. The post Lessons from a Global Medical Conference appeared first on Smart Meetings.
Smart Meetings
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Neuroinclusion: Events for Everyone The term neuroinclusion builds on the concept of neurodiversitythe understanding that neurological differences are not pathological but simply differences in cognitionto incorporate the understanding that neurodiversity will always exist in an audience into event design.
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 27, 2023
Before joining Aspen Hospitality, Azevedo worked as vice president of acquisitions and development for Loews Hotels and vice president of development for the Americas for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Rachel Riggs, CMP, DES, SEPC Riggs is general manager of environmental strategy for Maritz Global Events.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
You pre-load it with information on the destination, information about the conference, the theme, sponsors, whatever you want. “Some of our hotel partners have started to use it in their lobby so that someone can pre-load information,” Cameron says. You can make it AI to search the web….
Smart Meetings
DECEMBER 27, 2021
But with news of the Omicron variant changing day-to-day, conference organizers and sponsors are using the skills they’ve acquired in Covid times: flexibility and leveraging virtual options to replace some face-to-face experiences. This is a tech conference, after all—participants know how to manage virtual events. Safe Travels.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner. By the Numbers.
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 5, 2023
This is my passion—and being part of the global events industry is my second passion.” Preparing for the Exam In 2004, when Meeting Professionals International (MPI) held their EMEA Conference in Berlin, Mahmoud was working as director of conventions at the Berlin Convention Office.
Smart Meetings
MARCH 26, 2022
The 3 days of gathering started with Destinations International ’s Convention Sales and Services Summit, covering everything from trends in what is important to attendees today to tips for planning more inclusive events. We wanted to bring the world to the U.S. capitol to foster commerce and community and get smarter by coming together.
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The biggest events conference in the world is a marathon in itself with participants reporting that they recorded 10,000, 20,000 or more steps walking the floor and hoofing it to after-parties. Stevens is a four-time winner of Fittest male #Eventrprof and earned a Delos Wellness for Meetings and Events certificate.
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 5, 2022
The global event marketing agency Hamilton has been recognized with an EDDIE award for an exceptionally smart move in February. The company transitioned from immersive brand events to vaccination events. 1 at EDPA’s ACCESS Conference. Feature photo by Courtney Cantor at Hamilton Exhibits.
The MICE Blog
JULY 3, 2024
This collaboration also includes conferences and professional events, integrating economy, research, and education. For medium size events and conferences, where the Olma Messen might be too big, the Würth Haus Rorschach is a suitable alternative. Built-in translation booths: cater to international and regional events.
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 14, 2022
Peckinpaugh spent the last 11 years as president of Maritz Global Events and will continue to hold this role in addition to his next. DiBernardo was previously event manager for The Gant and has over a decade of event and hospitality management experience at a long list of hotels and resorts.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
She is co-chair of Events Industry Council’s Meeting and Event Design Group Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force and now consults leading companies on their return to events approach. Any interruption to pre-planning or on-site execution that disrupts an event is a risk,” Warwick said. Defining Risk.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 18, 2023
Significantly, 81% of event carpet was returned directly to inventory for reuse and the food court was uncarpeted, saving an estimated 4,184 pounds of CO2, earning MeetGreen Calculator’s Visionary designation. IMEX is not new to the quest for more sustainable events. A total of 14,557 pounds of food has been donated in that time.
Smart Meetings
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Traveling for a conference is no longer an excuse to abandon your mental health and physical well-being goals. In fact, according to a trio of meeting professional experts, taking care of yourself is even more important when you are the one charged with caring for your attendees.
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 10, 2023
They turn up and they’re fully engaged because they feel like they’ve had some involvement in the design of that event.”. According to Greg Bogue, chief experience architect at Maritz Global Events , event professionals need to break from the traditional linear way of looking at event planning. “We
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 15, 2022
Spoiler alert: It starts with understanding the purpose of the event and getting everyone to align behind that. . Megan Finnell is director of meetings and conferences for Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and Timothy Simpson is brand and engagement chief strategist with Design Studio by Maritz Global Events.
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 13, 2022
This is expected to continue well into 2023, according to a new report, “ 2023 Global Meetings and Events Forecast ,” by American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT). Global in-person attendance is predicted to rise 3.3% for conferences and tradeshows and 4.2%
Smart Meetings
JUNE 17, 2021
Vice President and General Manager Eric Spadafora said he is seeing requests for conferences for 100,000 or more people. These are not just big video conferences, but actual events,” he said. It integrates with any system, creating a global events wallet controlled by the attendee. Expectations have changed.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 19, 2021
When Maritz Global Events decided it was finally time to get back to face-to-face, the experience-design company brought 500 people who represented the entire meetings ecosystem to Seattle—clients, employees, team members and partners—and focused on talking openly and solving shared challenges. By the time the group arrived Sept.
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 13, 2023
Dominguez noted that even though mega-conferences were absent last year, borders are now largely open and travel is back with a vengeance. He saw international air lift as a bottleneck constricting global events. “We The New Normal Is Here. International Plane Shortage Resulting in More Domestic Travel.
Travel Daily Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The post The Advantage Travel Partnership announces its 2024 conference is to be hosted in Mexico appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. All conference delegates will be hosted in the resort’s junior suites. For the first time, the conference will be a global event for our global partners and members.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 30, 2021
Over the next six to eight weeks, Bauer will be following news about updated guidance, experiences of other conferences and sentiments about mask wearing and health screening. See also : Tips for Streamlining Vaccine Verification at Your Event. 8 before the official conference begins. “It
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 10, 2019
Business events are a platform for economic and social progress—that doesn’t have borders,” he said. “It happens everywhere, in hotels and airports, and we are uniquely positioned to say something if we see something,” Karamat said.
Smart Meetings
MAY 9, 2024
Training should include both theoretical knowledge of crisis communication and practical exercises like drafting urgent statements and conducting mock press conferences to sharpen public speaking skills. CGSP, HMCC, MMP, is director of global events, MC Event Consulting. Mark Catuogno, M.A.,
Smart Meetings
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
UBQ Materials, developer of the world’s first bio-based thermoplastic, is helping create the first global event built from landfill waste. Tuviahu says UBQ is cooperating with conference organizers of PLANETech to donate their materials for the construction of the start-up booths.
Endless Events
AUGUST 10, 2018
They know exactly who they want visiting their events, and they train their staff to respond to any attendee concern accordingly. What You Can Learn from Global Events. GetResponse, a company 20 years in the event business, has recently concluded a tour of global conferences. Click To Tweet.
Endless Events
JULY 15, 2021
” Nick has met Greg about six years ago at IMEX, which eventually led him to work with Maritz Global Events for years. From amazing co-hosts to insightful content, it just might be THE hybrid event of the year. If you want to learn more about hybrid events, make sure to download our comprehensive guide !
Smart Meetings
JUNE 23, 2022
The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
To meet these evolving challenges, a record number gathered at the reimagined Sheraton Denver Downtown for the 2024 FICP Annual Conference this week. That makes accommodating their needs in the workplace and at events a business opportunity rather than a compliance problem. The stakes are high, and rules must be followed.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Leadership with Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) wanted to set an example. For the group’s 2021 FICP Annual Conference in Arizona, they put a stake in the desert early on that they would hold an in-person event at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa for 500 fully vaccinated people Nov.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 23, 2023
Smart Meetings sat down with Tahira Endean , head of programme for IMEX Group, to discuss how the talking point of Human Nature will be woven through the experience during the three days of the conference and during Smart Monday immediately preceding the trade show and hosted buyer experience.
Travel Daily Media
DECEMBER 20, 2018
The post The MICE father: De Niro’s Nobu Hotels sign up global events leader appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The post The MICE father: De Niro’s Nobu Hotels sign up global events leader appeared first on Travel Daily. Penthouse, Nobu Hotel Las Vegas — the first Nobu property.
Travel Daily Media
AUGUST 1, 2023
The post ABTA launches its events programme for 2023/24 with four new conferences appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. ABTA has unveiled its events programme for 2023/24, which includes four new one-day conferences on top of its popular flagship conferences, plus a suite of core training events.
The MICE Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2021
On 28 September, Rotterdam Partners shared how they did it with their global audience during the third Rotterdam Experiment hybrid event, as well as the lessons learned from being the host city of the 65th edition of the ESC. The ESC is one of the best examples of what a global event in the post-pandemic world can look like.
Convene by PCMA
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
For global events looking to convene in Southeast Asia, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand, has emerged as the venue of choice. The Queen Sirikit National Convention Center sits in the heart of Bangkok’s Central Business District. Measuring in at more than 3.2
Endless Events
MAY 9, 2023
Plus, AI chatbots are available around the clock, so if you’re hosting an international event across time zones, this tool can help you be there for attendees 24/7. Simplify Event Planning Events have a lot of moving parts. Even the most seasoned event planners get overwhelmed, especially with global events.
MeetingsNet
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
After one big effort in August, nearly six times as many Maritz Global Events employees are certified in event sustainability. Over the past year, a handful of employees at Maritz Global Events, Fenton, Mo., However, during the company’s Activate conference in August, participation went to a whole new level.
Travel Daily Media
APRIL 2, 2012
The post Global events strengthen ADNEC growth for Q1 of 2012 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. ADNEC (Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre) welcomed 64 events during the first quarter of the year with exhibitions, conferences, meetings and weddings at the venue, attracting more than 125,000 visitors.
Convene by PCMA
AUGUST 18, 2021
Razlan Manjaji, Head of Global Events at South China Morning Post (SCMP). The pandemic had stirred up transformative changes for the events industry in the past year. At their recent China Conference, SCMP created a diverse panel where one third of their speakers were female. PCMA Announces Plans for Global Growth.
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