Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2024

How the gig economy is impacting the events industry In honor of Labor Day, Smart Meetings chatted with Tracy Judge, founder and CEO of Soundings , to get the latest scoop on the trends currently emerging within the freelance meeting planner gig economy. SM What types of freelance meeting planner roles are most in demand?

Planner 233

Planner Meeting Regulations Insurance 233

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Events Sustainability Meeting 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Events Sustainability Meeting 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2021

Crowd control is going to be on meeting planners’ minds in the first few months of the post-pandemic era, and there’s no better model for how to herd the hordes than the Walt Disney Company. What should planners expect in terms of how their meetings will be different from how they were before COVID?

Planner 279

Planner Management Regulations Remote 279

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Events Sustainability Meeting 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Events Sustainability Meeting 130

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 7, 2018

How liable are planners when disaster strikes? What can planners do to protect themselves? That is why he strongly recommends planners include indemnification clauses in their contacts, ensuring hotels and third parties take on as much of the risk as possible. Too many planners don’t adhere to a venue’s guidelines.

Planner 209

Planner Contracts Contracts Vendor 209

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2018

On the heels of multiple studies showing that event professionals are increasingly being asked to do more with less, Smart Meetings asked a veteran planner for tips on how to create “wow” on a budget. For planners who prefer their attendees to have a slow exit, McPhee recommends going for a soft close. Never announce “last call.”

Planner 220

Planner Contracts Contracts Speakers 220

Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 21, 2024

There was a backlash against ESG investment and climate change regulation in the U.S. last year, “with similar examples of watering down or postponement of sustainability-related regulation in some parts of Europe,” according to the most recent issue of Arthur D. Little’s Prism magazine , which is devoted entirely to sustainability.

Sustainability 105

Sustainability Organization Regulations Publishing 105

Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

The result is a chaotic, volatile environment in which meeting and event planners are struggling to optimally balance their meeting objectives with attendee preferences and safety, constantly changing guidance from the CDC and local government rules restrictions. What are planners to do? It’s a win/win,” she says. Hybrid Events.

Regulations 351

Regulations Virtual Events Planner Technology 351

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

states’ data privacy regulations closer to the European Union’s Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which passed in 2018. GDPR is the EU’s premier law on data protection and regulation (“the toughest privacy and security law in the world,” according to GDPR.eu ). What This Means For Planners. “As Jill Blood.

Attendee 264

Attendee Regulations Meeting Planner 264

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The impact and importance of meetings for medical and pharmaceutical industry attendees is not only increasing, but the complexity of the events and what is expected of planners is more demanding as well, according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events and a survey conducted by Smart Meetings.

Meeting 245

Meeting Medical Meetings Regulations Seminar 245

Endless Events

JULY 22, 2022

Event planners often forget to consider whether their tools are suitable for the job and their budget leading to overspending and inefficient processes. In today’s Event Tech Podcast episode, Brandt Krueger and Kyle Kocinski talk about the event tech stack and several tools that event planners might want to incorporate into their stack.

Vendor 348

Vendor Speakers Events Registration 348

Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

The organization says planners of in-person events should promote healthy behaviors among attendees and prepare for the possibility of infection. Those who have not been vaccinated should continue to wear a face mask. The CDC still advises meeting professionals to avoid large gatherings when possible. To date, more than half of U.S.

Regulations 264

Regulations Planner Preparation Promotion 264

Smart Meetings

MARCH 17, 2022

With a focus on balancing sustainability with health and safety regulations; leaving a destination better than you found it by deeply incorporating equity, diversity and inclusion principles into legacy initiative actions; and exchanging intellectual capital for tangible ROI, one thing is clear: we are not “meeting planners,” “CVB salespeople” or “back/front (..)

Regulations 264

Regulations Events Organization Speakers 264

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Since taking effect in May, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has altered data management practices throughout the meetings industry, not just in Europe, according to 2019 Global Meetings and Events Forecast report. The sooner companies and planners adjust, the better. What to Do.

Vendor 235

Vendor Regulations Financial Services Banking 235

Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

More: Become the Healthy Planner With These Strategies. Those chefs are now coming out of the kitchen to talk to those planners, and things are getting more locally sourced, more seasonal and certainly more creative.”. Also high in potassium, which is good for the heart and regulates blood pressure. Edible Flowers.

Attendee 274

Attendee Regulations Benefits B2B 274

Smart Meetings

JULY 7, 2022

Gun violence in the United States is, unfortunately, a reality every event planner must confront. The burden is on planners to make attendees feel safe and secure. An event in an open-carry state may need more security than an event where guns are strictly regulated. Train for the Worst Case. Questions You Can Ask.

Training 290

Training Venue Seminar Regulations 290

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2022

More than ever, planners are turning to CVBs and recognizing them as an invaluable resource. Moreover, RFP talks between planners and partners are leading to less of a simple “transactional exchange” and more “reciprocal value” in their relationship, as Scheiderer termed it. We were the trusted sources,” Green said. “We

Proposal 264

Proposal Tourism Tourism Regulations 264

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Social Tables

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

When it came to challenges facing event planners, we asked: “What’s the biggest change you’ve seen since you started working in our industry?”. In Social Tables’ latest trend report, 35% of planners we surveyed told us that the arrival of event technology has made the most noticeable impact on the industry. Try Social Tables today.

Planner 122

Planner Regulations Sponsors Technology 122

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Sustainability Events Regulations 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Events Sustainability Meeting 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Events Sustainability Meeting 130

Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While it began as an eco-conscious tea company with aims to support farmers around the world, soon after its start she recognized the widespread awareness of wellness and began to transition her company’s model to incorporate somatic breathwork: a breathing technique that regulates the nervous system. What does that look like?

Meeting 236

Meeting Regulations Speakers Panel 236

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Events Sustainability Meeting 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. The industry is self-regulating itself. So that’s the problem. Is a green meeting one with zero waste?

Planner 130

Planner Events Sustainability Meeting 130