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Top Global Event Trends for 2024: Embracing Innovation and Diversity

Traveler's Q

This data-driven approach allows event organizers to make informed decisions that cater to a diverse audience. For example, AI can predict attendee preferences for venue size, catering needs, and even session topics, ensuring that the event is tailored to meet the cultural and logistical needs of all participants.

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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. Look at everything from the attendee perspective, reviewing your platforms and your registration site.

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CES Leans into Hybrid Meeting Format in Uncertain Times

Smart Meetings

This year may see fewer people wandering the venue halls Las Vegas Convention Center , but promoters are confident that the show will go on, with some pandemic tweaks. Sylvia Kindlain, account manager at ThinkInk Communications , believes that CES 2022 will be successful because of the number of precautions taken at the venue.

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St. Gallen: Your Complete Guide to a Top Business Event Destination

The MICE Blog

Gallen’s rising profile in multiple industries and its growing popularity as a startup hub, it attracts major events. Here are the venues available for hosting events in St. Gallen city and region and that also facilitate innovative events formats and deliver on creating unique experiences for attendees.

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Breaking Barriers: Translation & Captioning For Events

Endless Events

If you’re planning on producing a complicated, bandwidth-heavy (virtual) event, then it’s best you try to eliminate as many pain points in the communication structure as possible. Leave nothing to chance – assess your AV needs in advance and review them with the venue or virtual platform as well.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Heike Mahmoud, CMP

Smart Meetings

This is my passion—and being part of the global events industry is my second passion.” One of her most memorable events was the official reopening of the new CCH-Conference Center Hamburg, in 2022. The venue was inaugurated with over 400 guests from politics, business, science and culture.”

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Why This New Bangkok Venue is a Top Pick of Major Global Events

Convene by PCMA

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. Those venues are as flexible as they are spacious, offering endless configuration options for conventions, concerts, and beyond.