Smart Meetings

JANUARY 20, 2023

Following the events of George Floyd’s tragic death in 2020, meetings industry organizations have been actively seeking to engage in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) discussion. More importantly, those attending your event probably expect a certain level of diversity in their speakers. “If

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Endless Events

JANUARY 18, 2021

No, no, no: as we enter a new age of events, where virtual will invariably remain a crucial part of what we do, audience expectations will continuously increase. The 2020 Emmys As A Case Study. Many high-profile events were either completely canceled or took on a brand new shape in 2020. The Emmys are a great example of that.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 21, 2022

Most planners didn’t even hear of them prior to 2020! Depending on the venue and the size of in-person and virtual audiences , these experiences can take many forms. The rest of the audience tunes in virtually. For the last two years, virtual audience expectations have been consistently rising.

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ITA Group

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Don't Make These 3 Event Audience Engagement Mistakes. Ask any event marketer about audience engagement and you’ll hear the same thing: putting together an engaging conference, product launch or incentive trip is hard work. Complicating matters further, event audiences aren’t the same as they once were.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Attendees heard from speakers from two major associations, the PCMA and National Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Association. Increasing audience engagement and online event attendee numbers during a pandemic. hosted lounges with breakouts to host attendees and speakers. Combatting screen fatigue.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A streaming option can serve larger, more geographically diverse and executive audiences, act as a flexible insurance policy in the event a new threat grounds attendees while providing valuable data about behavior. When a speaker can hear the basic human gesture of clapping at the push of a button, it is beautiful to see,” he said.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

By including your audience in your marketing efforts, your brand will connect with them in a much more effective way. Create a memorable hashtag and give your audience a chance to participate in an activity they will want to share on their profiles (ie. Your speakers and emcees should also know about the experience you’re planning.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Satellite model consists of small to medium independent venues (pods) with a small stage for regional speakers receiving the live stream feed. You can have a pod in any region, country, or continent where your speakers and sponsors are. When virtual events took over in 2020, event platforms became the new venues.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Jack Macleod For the last 15-20 years, green meetings and organized gatherings aimed at minimizing negative impacts on the environment have been a concept, but in 2020, after the Covid-19 pandemic, they became a widespread topic in the events industry. On average, events produce 2.5 pounds of landfill waste per person, per day.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

In March 2020, when they had to shut down due to COVID-19, five days later, they developed the virtual experience. Virtual event tech helped to scale the business, ‘The virtual world started for us in March 2020, in a big way.’. ‘We Do what’s right for the audience and the client, and have both tools in your shed.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2021

In 2020, nearly 2/3 of global speakers were men, and 35-40 percent of panelists were black. Does your planning team reflect the community and audience that you are serving?” Secondly, who are your vendors, suppliers, partners and speakers for your event? It isn’t a quick fix,” she continued. “It Of meeting planners, 68.3

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Afterwards, it moved the second edition to Interlaken in 2020, and in 2021, it moved the event to Bern. All aligned in order to keep it most engaging for the audience. All speaker contributions are translated simultaneously into German or English, allowing all participants to follow the programme in the language they prefer.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

The software creates a platform from which real-time multilingual speakers interpret what’s being said at the event, for attendees. Once the interpreter’s audio has been selected by the meeting participant, the interpreter’s voice replaces that of the original speaker in real time. Planning for a Multilingual Audience.

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Endless Events

MARCH 31, 2021

Attendees will likely be more mindful of personal space and ventilation, so provide options that allow you to sparse out the audience, as well as spaces where those warier of indoor rooms can feel at ease. Virtual attendees have been sitting on their couch all of 2020. Cookie points if there are some cocktails involved!

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Equipped with a 360-degree set that allows for wider camera movements and angles, AUX Media’s setup allows Tan and her team to instantaneously change a backdrop for not only dramatic effect, but also to create a setting that feels more realistic and captivating to both the speaker on stage and the viewer tuning in from home.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After two years of not meeting, companies and audiences may have different goals and expectations so conferences that were previously produced as simple iterations on the previous years’ event must now be reinvented whole cloth. “It Choices, Choices. His advice: “Give the whole picture rather than bringing decisions to a manager piecemeal.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Ford at 2020 Essence Festival; Photo credit: Bluewater Tech. With Parallel, Bluewater is pivoting once major in-person events to successful virtual ones with undeterred audience engagement. The tech company developed and built an entirely new, fully virtual booth for Ford Motor Company to attend the 2020 Essence Festival.

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Endless Events

JULY 10, 2020

Well, very simply put, a hybrid event is an experience that brings together people at a physical venue, where everything is taking place, with a virtual audience. And it’s even better because you can harness technology capabilities to add a virtual audience to the experience. Do I Have To Plan Two Different Events?

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Social Tables

JUNE 1, 2023

Marketers are tasked with reaching members of their target audience, enticing them to register for an event, and continuing communications all the way up to the event to encourage attendance. We review event marketing ideas designed to help planners and marketers craft better content, reach a wider audience, and increase event attendance.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

First, AJ talks about how they handled the dreaded year of the pandemic, 2020. Virtual audience engagement is key for every virtual and hybrid event, and it’s even more decisive when it comes to fundraising. Spoiler alert: the episode includes awesome party in a box ideas and a shoutout to the roaring twenties!

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is aiming to restore its pre-pandemic in-person participation at the same time it cultivates a larger online audience. Our audience really has grown to expect choices and the hybrid event is the ultimate choice.”. In 2020, like many other organizations, ASH’s Annual Meeting was fully virtual.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In terms of putting on an event, that is the kind of feedback from the audience that anyone would love to hear. 2020 Event Marketing Trends: What Will The New Year Bring? Event Brew – Controversial Speakers At Events: The Breakdown ??. Based purely from this, I just know 2020 is going to be an interesting year ??. ??

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s a great episode to catch up with everything Will and Brandt have been talking about in the past year and to see just how engaging this dynamic duo sounds in front of a live audience. Brandt and Will give the audience a one-hour rundown of event technology trends of 2022. The speaker needs to engage the audience.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

The massive disruption of in-person events since March 2020 has shaken our industry to the core. So as I predicted in 2020 , we haven’t seen the old normal since the pandemic started, and it’s likely we’ll never see it again. Pandemic-induced smaller audiences engender hand-wringing. How we got here.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In 2020 and throughout this year, their Amplify Event Series digital events offered continuing education credits for finance and accounting professionals which have been content-driven, meaning no expo, no networking. Only one sponsor canceled its agreement when the 2020 in-person event was moved online. Leverage your network.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2021

She tells Sarah how Hilton pivoted in March 2020 and shares the resources they created to help their customers. They cover every important aspect of planning the perfect hybrid event: technology, safety measures, and audience engagement. ” Kelly also emphasizes working with the virtual speakers beforehand.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In 2020, 61 percent said that using the right metrics to measure event performance was a major challenge; in 2021, only 44 percent said the same. Some of the metrics with the biggest year-over-year usage increases were: • customer feedback (95 percent of respondents now use that metric versus 70 percent in 2020).

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The AV industry, whether that’s your in-house hotel AAV or even third-party production companies, is struggling to be fully staffed up as we start to reincorporate in-person audiences into our event strategies.” “When producing hybrid events , we want to treat the in-person and virtual audiences differently.

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Endless Events

JUNE 13, 2022

Let the accolades speak for themselves; they recently won 2nd place in the 2020 Global Future Design Award. Let your overarching event strategy and target audience be your guide. Source: The Clayton House. monOrchid is a 14,000-square-foot unique venue that accommodates gatherings of all sorts.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 9, 2021

The pandemic may have shifted meeting to remote channels in 2020, however, organizing and inviting people virtual events still requires time and careful planning if it is going to be successful. Use your event’s agenda to outline what the event will consist of, who the speakers are, and what topics will be covered.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Follow these pre-event webinar best practices to drum up excitement and drive registration for your next event: Identify your target audience. Get to know your ideal audience so that you can create a laser-focused presentation targeted at future webinar attendees. What do they care about? Create a webinar marketing strategy.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

of meeting space was added since the beginning of 2020? Whether your audiences are visual or auditory, the first step is to listen for understanding rather than responding. “If Where better to celebrate the resiliency of the meetings industry than in Las Vegas , where 2 million sq. If you are talking, you aren’t learning,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. It might depend on your audience, and the goals and objectives of the meeting,” she said. That’s why I believe our [attendance] numbers skyrocketed in 2020. You’ve been here before.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

Read More: 3 Rewarding Trends in Incentive Travel The upside of holding WEC in Mexico for the first time was that it accommodated the association’s fastest-growing audience, Latin American meeting professionals, which has had 60% growth over the last four years. Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 27, 2021

While Cvent was unable to meet in-person in 2020, they’re bringing attendees back to Vegas in 2021 at the all-new Caesars Forum. The 2020 conference was virtual, but it’s scheduled as an in-person event once again in 2021. Prefer to look back on what we learned in 2020?

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 28, 2022

Which is exactly the sense I had sitting in the audience at Caesars Forum in January when PCMA Convening Leaders 2022 emcee Holly Ransom spoke from the stage to closing keynote speaker Indra Nooyi, former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo. We’re robbing audiences of that, I believe, when we are simply accepting a webcam,” Dorcas said.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 30, 2023

Convene editors reached out to a handful of organizations to see how they are incorporating lessons learned from the ways the pandemic affected their audiences, stakeholders, and members into their go-forward strategies. They were better at it; the speakers were better at it. I think our attendees learned a lot, too.

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