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Global Events: Translation, Interpretation & Captioning

Endless Events

The past year was a challenging one, sure, but it was also one that allowed us to understand the raw and unrealized potential of events as a whole. Global Events & International Event Planning. Planning Global Events. Like John puts it, “language barriers will always have to be overcome.

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The 10 Best Event Management Presentations for Planners & Marketers

Social Tables

Think about how the meetings & events industry has evolved in just the past ten years. Could you have navigated it all without conferences, blog posts, presentations, surveys, or your peers? After all, being an events professional requires as much continued education as any other gig out there. We know we couldn’t have!

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Holograms Beam into Events

Smart Meetings

At UFC’s Sphere event in September, Noche UFC, the UFC’s highest grossing fight and commemoration of Mexican Independence Day, Proto Hologram presented the first holograms of MMA fighters and UFC CEO Dana White, who’s hologram could be heard speaking Spanish, a language the real White doesn’t know.

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3 Extreme Accessibility Experts Share Their Accommodation Mandates

Smart Meetings

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. Accommodation, to be honest, starts before the RFP with internal stakeholders,” DeWitt explained.

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Smart Moves: Marriott Marquis Washington, DC Appoints Sustainability Concierge

Smart Meetings

Delivering keynote presentations for multiple global events and authoring a white paper, “Tackling Global Warming by Creating markets for Climate Business,” are just a few of her accomplishments. She has served as an ardent steward of climate-positive business.

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The 1 Big Idea Worth Stealing from Day 4 of PCMA Convening Leaders

Smart Meetings

More than 900 also watched parts of the presentations on livestream. The simulations, associated sessions and after-chats (new agenda items developed at a previous hackathon to help people better process and take action on presentations) leveraged technology to address very human problems.

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Why Meeting Planners Should Put Wellness First

Smart Meetings

In order to better understand how planners can make the best choices for themselves, Riggs presented the five Dimensions of Wellbeing. 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. How Can We Make Better Choices?

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