Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This shift in post-pandemic events has also significantly impacted event budgets. Clients are reducing or adjusting budgets due to the added cost of virtual event technology. This financial change comes as in-person events become too expensive for organizations to host.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our wish for 2022 is that all virtual events incorporate a little more “wow.” Every year, Smart Meeting profiles top event professionals as part of an annual Planner of the Year feature designed to recognize and inspire innovation and excellence. These two creative programs could be a roadmap for doing just that.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This is a tech conference, after all—participants know how to manage virtual events. Chris Meyer, CEO of Chris Meyer Global and consultant for CLEAR, is currently planning to be at CES in person, because he has confidence in the organization. “I Health and Safety. Hybrid meeting programs offer a silver lining.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Recorded at Event Tech Live, Will had a great conversation about the evolution of SXSW with none other than their former Chief Innovation Officer, Scott Wilcox. Today, Scott has a new consulting venture, Here and Tomorrow. But how did they do when the events industry had to pivot to virtual events only?

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 13, 2023

Despite the return of in-person events, virtual events are here to stay. In fact, 93% of event professionals plan to invest in virtual events moving forward. In large part, that’s because more than 80% of event organizers agree that virtual events help them reach a wider audience.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2021

During the ascent of virtual events, this perspective accelerated, because the content of events was where engagement was happening. Naomi Clare Crellin is the CEO of Storycraft Lab , an experiential engagement agency that provides consulting and audience design services to event, exhibit and experience planning teams.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“We are further striving for event leaders and companies to recognize, respect and celebrate accessibility for everyone.” Disability:IN With a team of experts providing education to meeting and event professionals and customizing solutions for events with needs of all kinds.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After two years of not meeting, companies and audiences may have different goals and expectations so conferences that were previously produced as simple iterations on the previous years’ event must now be reinvented whole cloth. Choices, Choices. His advice: “Give the whole picture rather than bringing decisions to a manager piecemeal.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2023

So, we’ll pair them with the younger talent, and I call it phone a friend and they might consult for 40 hours on this project. I prefer doing virtual events because it gives me that flexibility…if the work is getting done, should it matter where you’re doing it in some cases?” We still have people who are sick.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Thanks to her CMP designation, Dolecki says, “I am seen as a trusted advisor, consultant and credible resource for the association I work for. Looking Forward She says that the future of the events industry, especially post-COVID, is bright. Make a plan and stay committed to your plan!”

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

To kick things off, JT Long, moderator and editorial director for Smart Meetings , asked the guests to share event tech horror stories. Krueger began by recounting a virtual event hiccup that occurred despite doing all the necessary preparations. Doing Things Right But Still Coming Up Short. Brandt Krueger.

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Endless Events

JULY 5, 2022

. “The pandemic showed event planners that if you’re not a flexible person, this is probably not the industry for you. Luckily, our team had experience doing live streams, hybrid, and virtual events, so we could guide them. And let’s not forget about all the event platforms popping up on the market.”

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Endless Events

JUNE 4, 2021

These are exciting times for the events industry! We are returning to in-person events while fully embracing the biggest lessons we learned from pivoting to virtual events last year. Some might have taken them for granted in the past, but now, events are something everybody feels profoundly grateful for.

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Endless Events

APRIL 19, 2021

Rather than equally prioritizing both audiences, the old hybrid event simply offers one-way communication from your event to participants that view the event remotely. The events industry spent more than a year learning, producing, and honing the art of virtual events, elevating digital experiences to brand new heights.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2021

The first-ever hybrid ASAE Annual Meeting last week reached 3,200 association professionals, consultants and industry partners—500 at 10 half-day Community Pop-Ups and the rest through a virtual portal—with education, engagement opportunities and powerful keynotes.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The virtual component is here to stay as is the price difference between the in-person and the virtual event. “There’s competition now with virtual and therefore you have to put up or shut up,” says Nick. And with more tools to use, I generally consult problems. Identify What Your Sponsors Want.

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Endless Events

MARCH 20, 2018

Along with our hosts, Brandt Krueger of Event Technology Consulting and Tahira Endean of BCIC they will discuss the challenges VR brings to the event industry, differences between AR and VR, advice for using VR in brand activations and experiential marketing and so much more! Tahira Endean of BCIC ( @TahiraCreates ).

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InEvent

AUGUST 19, 2021

Insights by Marissa Pick, Founder of Marissa Pick Consulting LLC. The pandemic rapidly accelerated the digitization of events, profoundly changing the live events industry as we knew it.

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Meet Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Adapting Events in 2020. At the beginning of the COVID 19 shutdown in March 2020, the MeetGreen team successfully converted the year’s first face-to-face meeting to a virtual event in ten days. Live event green rooms. Carbon Assessment Adapts to Virtual Events. to measure virtual events.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 30, 2021

According to EventMB Studio’s latest “State of the Event Industry” report, 63 percent of event professionals said that they see their events becoming hybrid in the future. In that same survey, however, more than one-third said engagement is their biggest challenge in hosting virtual events. KiKi L’Italien.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 13, 2023

Despite the return of in-person events, virtual events are here to stay. In fact, 93% of event professionals plan to invest in virtual events moving forward. In large part, that’s because more than 80% of event organizers agree that virtual events help them reach a wider audience.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 7, 2022

Author Luuvie Ajayi Jones (left) and actor Gabrielle Union take part in one of the three MAKERS@Home virtual events in 2021. MAKERS’ approach to its 2021 event reflected an effort to take its “community on a journey over the year,” according to the website, “creating a sense of belonging as we advocate for equality together.”.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 3, 2023

Would you believe that 60% of leadership believe that events are the most critical marketing channel for achieving business goals? We’ve compiled a list of marketing and event statistics to inspire your event strategy or as fodder for your next event marketing presentation to get buy-in from key stakeholders.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 20, 2022

“You have to know what you’re trying to accomplish before you even try and think about doing the technology,” urged Brandt Krueger, technical producer, owner of Event Technology Consulting and Smart Meetings’ event tech correspondent, during the Smart Chat Live! webinar, “Top Event Tech Tips From a Year of Change.”.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 12, 2022

Would you believe that 60% of leadership believe that events are the most critical marketing channel for achieving business goals? To inspire your event strategy or as fodder for your next event marketing presentation to get buy-in from key stakeholders, we’ve compiled a list of marketing and event statistics.

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Blue Spark Event Design

AUGUST 16, 2021

Our client held out pivoting her in-person annual event into a virtual event until the last minute. With only two internal team members, who had responsibilities other than meeting planning, they waited until two months prior to the event date and attempted to plan, manage, and execute the virtual event on their own.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In its report “The Future 100: 2022,” creative agency, consultancy, and technology company Wunderman Thompson has identified 100 trends across industries — from culture to health to travel and hospitality — that will shape the way we live and work this year and beyond. (Photos courtesy Hyatt). Travelportation.

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Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to our State of In-person Events survey , 68% of event organizers plan to have a virtual component at their next in-person event, and 53% of organizers are “focused” or “very focused” on a virtual events strategy for 2023. But virtual events aren’t without impact on the environment.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2021

Marks was not a stranger to producing hybrid and virtual events. I overinvested in clients, held their hands, consulted, prepared executive briefs,” she said, remembering the uncertain time. But she had to accept that this was going to be the majority of what she would be doing for the next year or so.

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Traveler's Q

AUGUST 15, 2024

For example, a global consulting firm used a Metaverse platform to host a virtual client summit. Virtual events in the Metaverse eliminate the need to travel, reducing the carbon footprint linked to flights, hotels, and other logistics. Also, virtual events make it easier for more people to attend.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

But their session, “Research Exposed: CMO Council Explores the Future of the Event Industry,” had data to support their statement about 2022 being the year of experimentation. Sixty-four percent of marketing leaders say they’re only moderately or not at all effective at executing virtual events that deliver value to the organization.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 4, 2020

HIMSS and the Orange County Convention Center will consult health teams at Orlando Health when necessary. Further, the Emergency Department teams at Orlando Health Centers will be consulted to ensure the risk to conference attendees is proactively managed to ensure the safety of all conference participants.

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Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

According to our State of In-person Events survey , 68% of event organizers plan to have a virtual component at their next in-person event, and 53% of organizers are “focused” or “very focused” on a virtual events strategy for 2023. But virtual events aren’t without impact on the environment.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

NDK adds 50 employees to the ITA team, as well as an associate network of NKD-trained consultants across five continents. Among NDK’s service areas are strategic consulting, leadership development, employee engagement and onboarding, performance management, culture change, and skills training.

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Bizzaboo

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Events with a virtual component provide data layers that were rarely capitalized on in the past. For event organizers with multiple virtual event use cases , customer types, and KPIs per event, the more data you can access and synthesize, the better you can prove and improve strategies over time. (It

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 16, 2020

To open the virtual version of the annual Pharma Forum conference aimed at medical-event planners, two general sessions on Monday, June 15, focused squarely on the elephant in the room: the modified cleaning and social-distancing protocols hotels will use once in-person meetings and events resume.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 15, 2021

VMX used the Orlando Health medical concierge as a consultant as they put together that framework for the show. From having hosted larger in-person shows like VMX, what are some of the more important takeaways that your team has learned that organizers should know as they restart their larger in-person events?

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