Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

Prospective workers have high expectations—if hotels give them an offer they can’t refuse, meeting planners will reap the benefits of a smoother hospitality experience. Technology Creates New Staff Roles. People will need to be hired to design and manage these new customer-oriented technologies. Flexible Schedules.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 19, 2024

Bizzabo has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Event Technology Platforms. Gartner defines event technology platforms as “tools that enable B2B marketers to execute virtual and/or in-person events for external audiences. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Event Technology Platforms Published 19 March 2024.

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Traveler's Q

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The Wall Street Green Summit welcomes climate finance leaders and state-of-the-art technology innovators at Cornell Club on March 18-19. The Code BEAM America 2025 at Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel helps attendees learn about emerging technologies. San Francisco’s AI startups raised $17.80

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

Because even the smallest meeting is the best place to find new leads, clients and prospects. Would it surprise you to learn that 84% of attendees come to events for networking? Yet, approaching random strangers can be nerve-wracking, especially for work-from-home or introverted employees. However, there is good news.

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Solimar International

JANUARY 16, 2025

The success of DMOs in emerging destinations now depends on their ability to harness technologies and innovative practices. From enhancing visitor experiences through personalization to addressing complex challenges like overtourism and climate change, technology offers powerful tools to shape the future of destination management.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Brandt Krueger of Event Technology Consulting ( @BrandtKrueger ). Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide by Harrison Owen – Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide is just what the name implies: a hands-on, detailed description of facilitating Open Space Technology (OST). Sophie Silkes of e180 ( @SESilkes ).

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ITA Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

New Event Technology Our Experts Are Excited About. The latest technology trends can improve your events and help you better prove your return on investment (ROI). We asked our event experts what emerging technology they’re most excited about and why. This disruption has allowed us to look at event technology in a new way.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Welcome to the golden age of event technology! How is my current event technology stack helping me achieve my goals? If you’re looking to get a better understanding of your tech stack, we recommend taking an event technology assessment. Piggybacking off your goals and event technology, different events require different needs.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology help desk behind the curtain in central location. Since 2007, she has run her own sales and business coaching company, which helps sales teams, business leaders, and entrepreneurs improve their strategies for cultivating prospects, building stronger business relationships and closing deals.

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Endless Events

JUNE 3, 2019

We are currently witnessing one of the biggest technological revolutions of all time. Technologies like this will start making a huge impact in industries throughout the world. Many event planners and attendees are still suspicious of these technologies. Unsupervised Training. So it’s not intuitive and simple.

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Hotel Engine

JUNE 29, 2022

Modern in-room technologies make your guests feel at home. Hotel stakeholders are seeing how new technology saves money by: Cutting electricity and other costs. We’ll take a look at the technology guests are loving at each step of the guest experience, from check-in to check-out. It’s also a great way to increase profitability!

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2022

Accessible Technology. Traditionally, companies that work with meeting planners would offer incentives to prospective clients to draw them into a site inspection. Rather than flying across the country to evaluate a hotel, planners can simply put on a headset and slowly eliminate sites from their shortlists. New Incentives.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2022

Tech companies are partnering with universities, and DMOs, global travel organizations and event agencies are onboarding prospective industry professionals to provide resources, skills and opportunities and to train the next generation of hospitality and events. Events Is Taking Interns.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

Marketers should also consider segmenting lists by audience (customers, prospects and partners) and conducting A/B testing to determine which subject lines are most effective in prompting higher open rates and which call to actions are more likely to drive event registrations. With more than 310 million smartphone users in the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 22, 2023

Performative DEI actions for appearance or symbolic purposes rather than for genuine commitment to creating meaningful change is a losing prospect involving superficial actions done to fulfill an image or reputation rather than to drive substantive transformation or address systemic inequalities.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 22, 2024

Read More : Planner Said: Supplier Said—Hope for A Better Partnership Solution “For next year’s WeCon, we will continue that…We’ll also continue to focus on working more closely with our technology partners to streamline event logistics. This has required them to change how they reach out to prospects. “We

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

An expanded exposition floor at Mandalay Bay Convention Center was brimming with activity Tuesday as an estimated 10,000 people flowed through hosted buyer appointments, education sessions and nearly 400 booths representing more than 180 countries, venues, technology vendors and suppliers. And almost a third were new since 2021. “It

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Smart Meetings

MAY 5, 2021

Seven key tactics event marketers can use to promote virtual networking opportunities include: Conference website: Even when prospective attendees are first exploring your conference agenda and speaker list, you want to make the networking opportunities clear on your event site.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 28, 2020

While virtual events might be far from where they will one day be in terms of technology, the benefits they bring to the table are very clear. You often have to work on a prospect for several weeks, leading them through several stages of the funnel. So, is lead generation under the guise of events truly over? Absolutely not!

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Smart Meetings

JULY 22, 2022

It’s an unpleasant prospect. These new technologies and protocols are now affordable and effective. The CDC has made it plain that the vaccinations no longer protect individuals after the first six months, which is why they recommend booster shots. . Read more about protecting attendees at events.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Event technology and even the choice of venue itself will all contribute to making everything smoother and friendlier both to the event professionals and their audience. And because these breakthroughs are made in-house, they could tailor-fit it to their prospective audiences. Event Professionals Go Back to the Lab.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 9, 2024

“By leveraging new technology and innovative solutions, we are reshaping an antiquated industry. This prospect of simplifying business travel is not only thrilling for us internally but also for every client and partner we collaborate with on this journey,” said Eva Fouquet, SVP of KAYAK for Business.

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Gavel International

DECEMBER 30, 2024

As deepfake technology becomes more sophisticated and accessible, organizations must remain vigilant and develop strategies to quickly identify and respond to these emerging threats. The technology behind deepfakes has become so advanced that AI can now generate a voice quality that is eerily realistic. WHAT ARE DEEPFAKE IDENTITIES?

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Redfin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Those considering moving to Tennessee will find vibrant cities, beautiful landscapes, and job prospects in numerous fields. Jobs in this sector include nursing, administration, and medical technology roles. 12,000 employees 10 major industries in Tennessee 1. The states central location makes it ideal for automotive logistics.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 16, 2020

We were able to be somewhat aggressive” in focusing mostly on prospective business that was easier to sell and to service than other prospects. “Because of the frothy demand in the couple of years leading up to the pandemic, the relationship between destination marketing organizations and event customers had become interesting.

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Eventtia

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Technology is the key to any successful hybrid event. A hybrid event, as we know, is a combination of a live, in-person event and a virtual event, and technology is important in bridging the live and virtual components, as well as facilitating the delivery of virtual components to the virtual audience. Event Technology: The Concept.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 19, 2024

Bizzabo has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Event Technology Platforms. Gartner defines event technology platforms as “tools that enable B2B marketers to execute virtual and/or in-person events for external audiences. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Event Technology Platforms Published 19 March 2024.

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Endless Events

JULY 19, 2018

We’re excited that this technology is a much greener and sustainable choice than printed materials for attendees – replacing things like schedules, maps, survey cards and more. As technology improves and chatbots get even more sophisticated, event planners might not need dedicated event apps anymore. Do chatbots rule?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

And if it means getting medical help without ever leaving your hotel room, it’s a hard prospect to argue with. Put simply, Newport Beachside Hotel & Resort General Manager Demise Haddad explains, “This will make the experience a little better when the unexpected happens.”

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Techsytalk

AUGUST 15, 2016

A good marketing strategy includes messaging the attendees (and prospective attendees) via many channels. Highlight features that they can’t find in the print guide and ways their event experience will be improved if they use it. As you market your app, you’re marketing your event. It’s fantastic brand exposure for the event.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 7, 2023

The traditional forms of recruitment don’t work the same as they once did, in a time when prospective employees had less access to information about a company and less concerns about a company’s culture. During the discussion, the four talked about the best methods and practices to use to attract new talent.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 3, 2022

While your loved ones might not complain and may be interested in seeing the shaky video footage – your clients or prospects might not. However, you want to ensure that you or your team have basic knowledge of film or technology. It costs less than $2000 and introduces a crucial piece of AV technology called the switcher.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

A good AV company will help you determine if prospective venues fit your needs and vision. Technology advances quickly and the same rings true for AV. No, because the technology is outdated and it wouldn’t be helpful to you in today’s world. Good AV companies book up quickly. If it’s not broke don’t fix it right?

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Social Tables

JANUARY 19, 2017

In 1995, a story in the first issue of Plan Your Meetings mentioned a piece of rare and expensive, but valuable, new technology that event organizers might want to purchase and bring on-site with them – a cell phone (back when all it did was be a phone). The industry continues to change, by leaps and bounds. One thing hasn’t changed, however.

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Endless Events

JUNE 27, 2018

Also, what words come to mind when people think of the prospective venue? The Living Computer Museum makes that possible thanks to displaying the world’s largest collection of restored computer technology dating back to the 1960s. Event goal. Event overall mood and tone. Positioning statement. Brand characteristics.

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Eventtia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Here, the event proposal’s main role is to communicate how prospective sponsors can benefit from sponsoring the event, as well as to explain the event’s concept and agenda to these prospective sponsors. and external stakeholders (prospective partners, vendors, prospective sponsors, speakers/talents, etc.). The event plan.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 12, 2024

That is why we need mentors who are father down the road in their career,” or perhaps younger mentors who are savvy about technology or the motivations and communication styles of their cohorts. When a planner finds a prospective mentor, “simply ask if they might have, say, 30 minutes a week for you to bounce situations and ideas off of them.

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