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The Live Events Industry Needs Your Voice: Support a NAICS Code Revision

Smart Meetings

Corporate Events (meetings, conferences, tradeshows, product launches, brand activations, consumer shows, company parties). Sporting Events (local/professional sports, marathons, tournaments, rodeos). These verticals include nearly 200 unique roles, from event planners and production crews to performers and rental vendors.

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Parade Planning: The Moving Spectacle

Smart Meetings

Holidays, historic occasions, themes, fruits, vegetables, sports, animals and all types of food are celebrated by costumed people marching down a street. We start planning next year’s parade before this year’s takes place,” said Ray Pulver, owner and president of Upbeat Parade Productions.

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The Future Looks Bright for Destinations International’s Young Leaders

Smart Meetings

We make a strong effort to source from local vendors to give visitors a uniquely Fort McMurray experience during the events we host. Opportunities are endless.”. – Kayla Adams , sports sales manager, Greensboro Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. “I’m What excites me most about future events is our new product developments.

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Using Technology to Enhance Your Event

ADMEI

Different technologies can enhance the event experience for your clients and vendors in many ways, both big and small. However, it’s important to remember that you do not need to utilize every technological tool to make a big impact. Drones are also a great alternative or addition to fireworks shows, lasers, and projections.

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The Evolution of Urban Renewal Takes Shape in Seattle and Portland

Smart Meetings

The downtown area over the last 30 years has always had a great mix of uses and draws from arts and culture, food, music, sports entertainment—everything is really tucked close together and walkable, making it one of the great downtowns to walk in,” says Jon Scholes, president and CEO, Downtown Seattle Association.

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California: Meet Where Sustainable Innovation Lives

Smart Meetings

The 2022 calendar includes a renewed emphasis on lightening the company’s environmental footprint and was greeted enthusiastically by vendors and customers. At the same time, it introduced a new product, Net Zero Cloud 2.0—a In addition, all cleaning products from hand soap to floor cleaner to paint are environmentally friendly.

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Winning at the Game of Employees, Distractions and Productivity

Gavel International

Take the people who dislike meetings, combine them with those who appreciate meetings but have trouble focusing during them, and add in-house meetings that are too long or aren’t productive. You can do so in many ways, from using local vendors to treating attendees to cultural events in the evenings.