Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

Travel and meeting risk trainer offers insights for the future The news Friday morning that an update from the software protection company CrowdStrike crashed travel, emergency, hospital and banking systems all over the globe, was a reminder of the risks of planning events in a highly networked world.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 25, 2023

As event managers, our goal at the end of a long-awaited event is to ensure meeting planners and their constituents are happy. 2 destination for meetings in North America, and one can imagine our event spaces and hotel services at JW Marriott Nashville see great demand being that we are in the heart of the happenings.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2023

This year’s tax deadline is Tuesday, April 18 but for those late filers or for those self-employed meeting planners just waiting to sign and send, a last-minute check is always a good idea. The post Last Minute Tax Checks for Self-employed Meeting Planners appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Her wealth of experience offers valuable lessons for planners organizing their own multiday events. I sat down with Murphy to discuss her insights, from coordinating Dickens on Centre to what other planners might learn from her experience. Read More : Hey, Busy Meeting Planner, You Feeling Stressed?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2022

While 2022 is in full swing, the meetings and event industry is continuing to navigate best practices regarding safe meetings and social gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic. One trend that we are continuing to see is that of outdoor meetings. The benefits of hosting a meeting in nature are many. Keep It Down.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

Contracts are the life blood of the meeting industry. The sticky details and specific wording make for important safeguards for planners as well as suppliers in ensuring everyone gets what they want out of the partnership. Smart Meetings sat down with Darryl B. Cost for meeting rooms. How many comp rooms are available?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

See in action how planners can amplify it to multiply ROI. Smart Meetings Wellness Experience brought not-a-buzzword, capital-W Wellness to life in word and action. Read More: The Science of Event Happiness Featured at Smart Meetings Elevate Experience Wellness, now. Wellness is already in events DNA. Brain Breaks.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2024

Read More : How Meeting Planners Can Pre-plan for Event Crisis Management The storm is expected to make its way north into Canada with wind gusts of up to 95 mph. What Planners Can Do to Be Prepared When it comes to severe storms, the best things any event professional can do is prepare as much as they can.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

If there is a silver lining to the pandemic for the meetings industry, it’s this: The pandemic accelerated the evolutions of meetings. Like the typewriter, print publications and fax machines, the fully in-person meeting would have eventually become extinct. People know how to use them, and they make great meeting programs.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Let’s learn more. Her father had cerebral palsy, which brought its own needs.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

How planners can safeguard their attendees against hotel room breaches In 2022, at a private event in Las Vegas during “hacker summer camp,” as the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences have come to be known, a group of researchers found a flaw that could put millions of hotel rooms around the world at risk of being breached.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2024

Event planners who embrace wellness not only meet the evolving demands of attendees but also create environments that foster deeper engagement and satisfaction. Event planners can schedule morning yoga sessions, offer fitness center access, and organize interactive activities like scavenger hunts or fun runs.

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Endless Events

MARCH 22, 2018

Unfortunately, event planner networking often falls to the bottom of event planners’ priorities. In fact, 95% of people say that face-to-face meetings are a key factor in successfully building and maintaining long-term business relationships. Technology is starting to play a big role in event planner networking.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 11, 2025

Events Industry Council (EIC) , National Coalition of Black Meeting Professionals (NCBMP), International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) and The Center for Association Leadership (ASAE) joined the founding partners and kicked off the event at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in 2022. “Be like U2,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Planning an event in multiple languages can be a challenge for meeting planners. Innovative virtual language interpretation software is making attendee accessibility a reality for everyone involved in creating inclusive meetings. The program makes its virtual services impartial to any particular meeting platform.

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Endless Events

APRIL 10, 2020

If you’re planning a virtual event, you’ll want to have a meeting with a virtual event production company ASAP. Most planners are now scrambling to figure out how to replicate the in-person experience in a virtual environment. But going into a meeting with a virtual event production company unprepared will only drag on the process.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

See in action how planners can amplify it to multiply ROI. Smart Meetings Wellness Experience brought not-a-buzzword, capital-W Wellness to life in word and action. Read More: The Science of Event Happiness Featured at Smart Meetings Elevate Experience Wellness, now. Wellness is already in events DNA. Brain Breaks.

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Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

The final step in the event management process is a follow-up meeting after the event to discuss the event’s overall ROI, attendee and sponsor feedback, and make the necessary readjustments to the overarching event strategy. Event professionals have to come to follow-up meetings after events well-prepared. Event apps.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

The word “partnership” gets thrown around a lot in the events world, but when there are too few ballrooms for too many functions being planned, meeting planners and hotel and destination counterparts often find themselves on the losing end of negotiations that could be win-wins.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2022

“We understand the importance of connection; we understand the importance of culture,” said David Peckinpaugh, Maritz president and CEO, reflecting on meetings’ return to F2F (face-to-face) amid dawning young talent during our Smart Chat Live! last week, “How to Nurture the Next Generation of Meeting Professionals.”.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 7, 2018

How liable are planners when disaster strikes? What can planners do to protect themselves? For answers to those questions and more, there are meeting and events legal experts such as Jonathan T. Beyond that, the best way for planners to protect themselves and their events is to take preventative steps before the event begins.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Was the food well-prepared? To help event planners deliver memorable culinary experiences, Smart Meetings has compiled a list of essential food and beverage stories from this past year to help planners leave their attendees stomachs satisfied. Was there variety? Did the flavor profiles shine? These details matter.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Experts offer tips and ideas for meeting professionals As the year slowly comes to a close, many financial and insurance meeting planners may be thinking about what they should be keeping on their radar. They want to feel as though they have a role in choosing their own meetings journey.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2022

While 2022 is in full swing, the meetings and event industry is continuing to navigate best practices regarding safe meetings and social gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic. One trend that we are continuing to see is that of outdoor meetings. The benefits of hosting a meeting in nature are many. Keep It Down.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Cvent has just published its list of Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for 2023: Nashville and San Diego moving up to the second and third spots after Orlando. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. Top 10 Meeting Destinations in North America 1.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 12, 2023

To fully understand the importance and impact of AI on the meetings space, Smart Meetings spoke with Iain McCowan, director of AI at Dubber , to glean some sense of how it can be a helpful tool for planners. With the use of AI, Dubber captures key moments and insights within an online meeting space.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even as in-person meetings continue to reemerge with a vengeance, virtual meetings have taken a primary position in the event professional toolbox. Yes, hybrid meetings are more complicated and costly, but virtual is here to stay without a doubt,” he said. Now all variations of meeting delivery are on the table.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Shannon Copeland The seamless coordination of countless logistics required to produce a productive and enjoyable meeting or event is a Herculean task. In today’s world, you cannot overlook the possibility of Mother Nature becoming an unwanted attendee at your meeting or event. How do these impact your plan for severe weather response?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2025

Leadership expert Shane Feldman shares strategies for authentic engagement, community-building and navigating AI The main goal of a meeting planner is to create an engaging experience that enables people from all walks of life to connect under an umbrella of ideas in an environment forged around connection, learning and innovating.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2022

The summer of 2023 will herald a new era of meetings in South Lake Tahoe with the arrival of the over $100-million Tahoe South Events Center. Once complete, the events center will offer meeting profs access to a 27,000 sq. The new events center will also include eight meeting rooms, consisting of an additional 15,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 5, 2024

Grand openings and major renovations refresh meeting space in famous international cities All across the world, in some of the most sought-after international cities, come new and renovated hotels and meeting spaces, leaving the stage set for outstanding gatherings, wherever your attendees may be traveling from to get there.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In a quest to better understand what is really happening in Southern California after the well-publicized fires last month, we asked Los Angeles Tourism President and CEO Adam Burke what meeting professionals can expect when they arrive. Read More: Los Angeles, a Planner’s Paradise What should meeting professionals know?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Smart Meetings spoke to event spaces within the United States that were ranked by WiseVoter as top recyclers in the country. Inn by the Sea offers event planners 1,300 sq. of meeting space and also has a 19-year-old food compost program. for meetings and has been actively working on its green initiatives since 2004.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Event planners are already preparing to bring the best to 2022. The first event of the new year, Smart Meetings’ Incentive Experience event in Playa del Carmen, Mexico is a 3-day excursion at the Hotel Xcaret Arte. The Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky is opening its meeting spaces for an early-week experience away.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In fact, according to our State of The Industry Survey , 64% of planners believe hybrid events will be the most common experiences in 2021. So, in face of data points like these, it’s only natural that several aspects of the industry are preparing for the upcoming shift. Answering Hybrid Needs.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2023

Hosting at a National Landmark Renwick Gallery Hosting at the Smithsonian provides planners with limitless possibilities surrounded by the historic grandeur of the nation’s capital. Reynolds Center, located within the National Historic Landmark building, offers event planners access to 12,000 sq. meeting space.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2023

Force Majeure clause and employment classifications changes coming for MPs The legal nuances of meeting planning can be a bit overwhelming even for the seasoned planners. To offer some helpful insight in what areas to be on the lookout for, Smart Meetings sat down with Ty M. It gets way more into the weeds,” Sheaks said.

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