Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Badges included QR codes that were scanned as attendees accessed the show floor and education sessions, helping organizers understand what was popular based on actual behavior. Organizer/Sponsor Benefits. Rewarding attendees for desired behaviors can increase interaction with sponsors and messaging. Attendee Benefits.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

But this is no easy feat; research shows that 46% of event organizers say that speakers struggle to simultaneously engage a virtual and in-person audience. Give attendees extended access to a platform where they can meet other community members, attend webinars, ask questions, and interact with sponsors. Higher Event ROI.

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Audience Virtual Events Events Communications 306

Endless Events

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Will this improve the quality of the event you’re organizing? Engaging with event sponsors. Access is the admittance to offers like an invitation to a post-event party or one-on-one time with a speaker. Make sure you get the speakers involved and have them be the champion for your event gamification.

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Attendee Social Media Event Apps Sponsors 310

Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure you consider these high-ticket items at a minimum: Venue Speakers Food and beverage Furniture and equipment Staffing (event coordinators, clean up, security, etc.) Source Event Sponsors One of the biggest hurdles for event planners is cost. To find event sponsors, you must start your search ASAP. What’s your budget?

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Sponsors Fashion Virtual Events Promotion 304

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. You can get the host or speaker to do a show of hands, or ask people to use your hashtag to send questions.

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Meeting Sponsors Audience Events 348

Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You can see: The rating of each session on a scale of 1 to 5, How many attended the session, How many left the session halfway through, Sessions and speakers with the highest attendance levels, Which sessions sparked the most engagement (hands raised, Q&As, polls), How many times do attendees replay each session? GIVE VALUE TO EXHIBITORS.

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Benefits Attendee Registration Audience 303

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Hologram technology can increase engagement and attract hard-to-get speakers Meetings may be a mostly in-person experience but—as we learned during Covid, with the use of Zoom, Teams and other online video platforms—the use of communications technology has its place in the world of meetings and events. Holograms as Speaker Catcher “The No.

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Endless Events

MARCH 18, 2022

Each event has a goal that it aims to accomplish, and those goals can vary greatly from organization to organization. Instead, they can host a community throughout the year , which in turn boosts engagement levels , consistently exposes captive audiences to sponsors, and more. goals and KPIs. Conclusive Thoughts.

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Platform Event Apps Events Event Technology 276

Endless Events

OCTOBER 25, 2019

You’re dealing with vendors, speakers, performers, caterers, marketers, the media, you name it. These collaboration tools are based in the cloud and help you stay organized and in touch even if you’re running around. Allows you to create multiple workspaces to keep yourself organized. There must be an easier way, right?

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Event Planning Vendor Sponsors Events 222

Endless Events

APRIL 19, 2021

Hybrid events offer the opportunity to expand an event’s reach, engagement, and return on investment for speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors. The main hub venue will act as the primary stage which will be the home base to the majority of presenters and leaders of an organization. But how, you may ask? It’s up to you!

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Events Venue Speakers Remote 284

Endless Events

APRIL 22, 2020

Keep reading and learn how you can go about deciding how much to charge for your virtual event – and how to drive extra revenue to your organization! This will include things like speaker fees, entertainment fees, event platforms , the technical and production costs, and so on. So we decided to give you a hand!

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The venue was perfect and the speakers top-notch. Speakers want to present remotely, and attendees and sponsors are starting to drop off. What if travel policies change, and speakers, attendees and sponsors start to cancel? What if you and your audience and speakers lack experience with hybrid events?

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Speakers Audience Registration Sponsors 246

Endless Events

AUGUST 18, 2020

Even here at Endless, we were challenged to help organizations make the shift in as little as 24 days! Pre-recorded content takes place and calls with the speakers are arranged in order to prep them. 2 weeks out : speakers will now be rehearsing and the production team will sit down with you for a tie-down meeting.

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Virtual Events Rehearsal Production Events 348

Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

One final disclaimer before we dive in: this is not sponsored content ; no event platform paid to be featured on this list. As an organizer, you can toggle between light and dark mode and enable or disable randomized or table-like speed networking. . Always schedule a demo with your desired event platform before moving forward with it.

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Platform Registration Sponsors Events 334

Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“When you think of an in-person event, you think about who’s on the stage, who’s behind the stage, who is helping mic up the speaker, who’s helping make sure the attendees get into the room … There’s a ton of logistics on-site when you’re helping attendees there. Our sponsors love it.

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Virtual Events Production Speakers Events 317

Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

After an almost two-year hiatus, planners and event organizers who have moved ahead with physical-only events have been disappointed with attendance. Either way, meeting planners need to organize with both online and physical attendees in mind. Perhaps, with the pandemic easing, the industry is just learning this now.

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Meeting Social Media Trade Show Technology 306

Smart Meetings

AUGUST 27, 2018

Pillar Project regularly organizes fintech breakfast meetings in London. It typically begins with a short presentation by a guest speaker, followed by a question and answer session with time to mingle afterwards. He organizes a range of events, including corporate and business events, wine and food tastings in London and Houston.

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Networking Attendee Social Media Preparation 368

Endless Events

JULY 15, 2021

Some organizations don’t have millions of dollars like CES or SXSW. Sometimes, they have to work with in-kind sponsors, especially coming back from the pandemic. A lot of production issues stem from the fact that there was a lot of reliance on the in-kind sponsors to be able to join and get to that level.”

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Events Certification Panel Audience 317

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You need creative vision, planning and organization, budget management, marketing, promotion, collaboration, adaptability, time management and, of course, the ability to create a memorable experience,” she says. Desireé Dolecki, CMP, has always been an artist. To her, being an event professional is much in the same vein.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 7, 2019

PCMA has become known for lining up top speakers—this year, Convening Leaders added author Seth Godin and actor Geena Davis to the mix—and sessions that speak to the problems that keep planners up at night—“turning sponsors into partners” and “managing risk in a complex world” come to mind.

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Manufacturing Sponsors Panel Planner 235

Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Who to thank—event sponsors and employers. Ask organizers if there is a photography policy and stick to it. Ask for these from the speakers and people who own them so that you can add them to the report,” says Jennifer Allison, a marketing specialist at Next coursework and 1Day2write. Include: An event overview. The location.

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Endless Events

MAY 10, 2018

From the offset, you start to think of all the things that need organizing. How do you find the right speakers? From securing sponsors to organizing the AV and production needs, the planning process seems endless. This meeting will also help you organize your team. When will your speakers come on?

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Venue Conference Entertainment Audience 246

Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Are we choosing sponsors that match our value? Do our speakers and influencers reflect our brand well? Usually, the event organizer facilitates the brain date, asking participants both to fill out what knowledge they have to share as well as the knowledge they want to gain. Infusing Events With Hands-On Experiences.

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Trends Events Sustainability Sponsors 335

Endless Events

APRIL 23, 2021

Not to mention how much of an asset it can be for the organization internally! Maybe there was a speaker they thoroughly enjoyed and want to see again. Maybe they just want access to the exclusive content you’re providing, like behind-the-scenes footage, testimonials, or never-before-seen interviews with speakers and sponsors.

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Events Social Media Virtual Events Audience 316

Endless Events

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Events are all about creating connections—connections between attendees, connections between an organization and its members, connections between a brand and its audience. Challenges could include things like: Visit 3 sponsor booths who seem most interesting to you. Answer a multiple choice question about the keynote speaker.

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Networking Events Conference Attendee 317

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Ultimately, finding out what the attendees want is the bottom line for meeting organizers. With the needs of audience members in-flux, meeting organizers are looking at new ways to surprise and delight attendees. Less Is More: Pineda noted that organizers have been leaning into shorter or micro-sessions. The sponsors love it.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

We championed for them, wanting to make sure that we were still fundraising for them and keeping them relevant and engaged with sponsors and donors.” We also had some branded materials from our nonprofit organizations. This year, she’s planning on opening it up to VIPs or high-level sponsors. No matter what crisis.

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Virtual Events Audience Events Sponsors 298

ADMEI

MARCH 20, 2024

This year’s conference successfully attracted the highest attendance that ADMEI has seen in years with nearly 250 in attendance , from sponsors and exhibitors to speakers and attendees, including 91 first-time attendees. We left inspired by meaningful connections and equipped with industry best practices. Want to delve deeper?

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Conference Destination Management Trends Consulting 234

Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2019

No economic good will be successful if we don’t have social good,” said Sherrif Karamat, PCMA president and CEO, in a small breakout room before the final speaker (more on actor Geena Davis later) took the stage to address the approximately 3,800 people who traveled from 36 countries to be there for the flurry of networking and education sessions.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 10, 2021

“Event organizations spend a considerable amount of money investing in those events, from production to lighting and speakers. Some vendor organizers who are really savvy with their business discuss it, but on a whole, the events industry doesn’t recognize the value that event attendee data holds.

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Platform Events Website Attendee 317

Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

It features transitions, well-rehearsed speakers and is short enough to keep people engaged. Read More: State of Virtual Meeting Tools Attendees gather in an event space and meet sponsors, speakers and network with their community. Firstly, virtual events cost significantly less money and take far less time to organize. “If

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Virtual Events Platform Rehearsal Speakers 245

Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The amount of saying “I’m going to spend an hour and a half listening to one speaker in a room where I have to look at that person face-to-face.” What resonated the most with that speaker as people saw them in the keynote? Or you might be able to have a coffee sponsor next year. Buying Signals.

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Sponsors Attendee Event Apps Technology 258

Endless Events

MAY 2, 2022

How do you keep an inbox organized with all that email? It tells you all the sessions you went to, the contact information of all the speakers, people you’ve connected with on the event app, and which sessions or exhibitors you didn’t go to but are related to your other activities.

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Attendee Platform Event Apps Events 317

Endless Events

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

There are different ways to set up event registration, but generally speaking, there are two ways event planners can implement registration: set up a microsite : an event website that highlights certain aspects of their event, such as their speakers, community page, FAQs, and more. Get your RFIDs and join the royal feast.

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Registration Events Event Technology Platform 316

Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It has become increasingly clear that — as several speakers at Convening Leaders 2024 in January in San Diego pointed out — we likely won’t lose our jobs to AI but to workers proficient in using AI. I was therefore excited to participate in the Convening Leaders competition pitting humans against humans using gen AI.

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Organization Registration Events Publishing 111

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I have always and always will advocate that that’s why we start with the destination organization…take a step back and think of this in the RFP in three very manageable buckets.” It can uplift individual attendees, sponsors and exhibitors, and even your CEOs and board members. To educate, look to post-event reporting.

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Sustainability Education Manufacturing Incentives 264

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the Multicultural Marketplace, DMO-sponsored booths suppliers who represent diversity and the community and are then assigned appointments with domestic and international buyers, press and social media influencers.

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