Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Diverted 45% of all waste from landfill in 2020. Visit California —and 22 of its encompassing destinations attending IMEX 2021— celebrated the Golden State’s June reopening to group travel with Napa Mumm sparkling wine, and a new online hub for media and meeting professionals ( see here !). Reduced greenhouse emissions by 36.1%

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Go to them, see as many online events as you can, and talk to your colleagues.” They were already working on adding the video capabilities before March 2020.” ” A Final Note On Remote Work. To conclude their talk, Will and Brandt emphasize that remote work has changed the way events operate.

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Endless Events

MAY 29, 2020

Trends… But Make It Virtual: 2020 Virtual Event Trends. ? Will is hosting a webinar LIVE this Friday all about the virtual event trends of 2020. Stay up to date on the latest virtual event trends of 2020! ? 2020 Event Tech Trends That Will Shape The Year. Want to dive deeper into these trends? Register here!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2021

While Covid may have put a pause on the magic in early 2020, Disney’s Florida parks and resorts have been open since last July, operating at reduced capacity and with a variety of adaptations to reduce crowds. Reservations are now required to attend the parks.

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Innovatx

APRIL 29, 2020

We are over a quarter of a way through the year and it is time for our 2020 spotlight on event trends. So here are our top four 2020 trends, two pre COVID-19 and two post. Companies whose bread and butter are usually face to face are rapidly turning to online solutions. PRE COVID-19. That is where virtual events come into play.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Read More : New and Renovated: Austin Exploration and Sunny Shores Cvent Top Meeting Hotels | North America Many hoteliers leveraged the downtime in 2020 and 2021 to invest in upgrades and renovations to prepare their properties for the post-pandemic travel boom. For example, Grand Hyatt Nashville (No. 4), ARIA Resort & Casino (No.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

Before much attention was paid to online viewers, they were treated simply as viewers—not as real attendees in need of as much as engagement the live audience. But then everyone became an online viewer. One event with two experiences for in-person and online attendees with inter-two-way connectivity.”.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ensuring that level of commitment is even more challenging after the company had to furlough or lay off thousands to survive 2020 and 2021, a move that the company has admitted may have bruised its “people-first” culture. A significant number of training classes are online and many teams work remote exclusively.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 22, 2024

In addition to online training, GE will now hold more regional meetings at hotels and other venues that are near the company’s production facilities around the country. Deloitte University opened in Texas in 2011, and KPMG Lakehouse opened in early 2020 outside of Orlando.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 11, 2021

The global pandemic forced event planners to think differently and to embrace technology to offer an engaging online experience. Event planners must now find a way to meld best practices from online events with in-person to ensure access for all while rebuilding personal connections. Lisa Delpy Neirotti, Ph.D., Naomi Clare Crellin.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 11, 2022

” You might have been in an online meeting recently — or led one yourself — where everyone was encouraged to turn their web cameras on in order to create a sense of community. Before the pandemic, BroadPath had been experimenting with always-on video for remote employees as way to build community.

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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. Based on data from Markletic , 56 percent of marketers say it takes 2-4 weeks to organize a virtual event properly.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

A total of 150 people took MPI up on the streaming service option, down from 1,000 when the group met in Grapevine in 2020. And then just as luckily, it all came back up online,” he said. Hybrid Additions Another level of complexity was the decision to offer some sessions virtually through Cvent.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2020, IMEX and Marriott International released a report on why it makes financial, logistical, and ecological sense for the business events industry to adapt a regenerative model as well. The lifestyle isn’t necessarily new, but the shift to remote work during the past two years has rapidly accelerated its popularity. Greenmapping.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In our 2020 survey, meeting organizers named Facebook, with 3 billion users, as the leading channel for promoting events. After Slido was acquired in 2021, Holub cofounded Remote People, a consulting and training company for remote teams, based in the U.K. It brings the whole professional world together,” he said.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The post HOTECH 2020: “The guest of the future won’t search for a room or a hotel” appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. As travel increasingly becomes a popular lifestyle choice among the growing middle and upper classes in Asia, gross travel bookings are projected to register strong growth from 2017 to 2020.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

Drag Taste’s ‘Sangria and Secrets’ is considered the world’s number one online experience. 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

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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. In 2020, like many other organizations, ASH’s Annual Meeting was fully virtual. Programs ran simultaneously for online and in-person audiences with livestreamed content.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If 2020 was a year of pivoting and learning about virtual events, 2021 was a year of putting that knowledge to the test. Building events since : 2020. Building events since : 2020. The new year is slowly approaching, and we for one, are really excited! Cvent is the event platform to build your event strategy from the ground up.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

For Clif Knight, MD, FAAFP, senior vice president of education for the American Academy of Family Physicians, 2020 was supposed to be about a gradual reshaping of the organization’s CME portfolio. The partnership gives us the ability to try some different formats of online learning in order to meet the needs of our learners.

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Tembusu Events and Communications

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We discuss and test best poly online dating sites and applications online these days! By using online dating sites, it is possible for anyone! Scam-free : Romance cons online through online dating applications are a growing problem, and anybody can find themselves in danger. Requires extra money for extra.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 18, 2022

Since 2020, Hoff has seen a bump in requests like this — companies with a growing remote workforce looking to get away and reconnect or connect for the first time ever. The survey, which interviewed more than 2,500 travelers in March 2022, found that four out of five business travelers work remotely at least some of the time.

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Meet Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In-person events were either canceled in 2020 or switched to a virtual format. We compared the same eight events in the 2019 physical iteration and its digital 2020 counterpart. This constitutes a 78% increase in countries represented through virtual attendance in 2020. What Does the Data Say? Strikes and civil unrest.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Uniting Remote Teams After Covid isolation in 2020 and 2021 and remote working in 2022, C-suite executives realized their team relationships had cooled. Hybrid meetings that include online viewers along with the in-the-room audience require two parallel audiovisual productions. ” It was an understandable echo.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As we approach 2021 with cautious optimism for what the new year brings, the lessons from 2020 likely won’t leave us anytime soon. The 2020 National ESEA Conference keynotes and breakout sessions will focus on “Together for Equity.” APRIL 2020 VIRTUAL EVENTS. AMA The Year Ahead. National ESEA Conference. Description.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The good news is on the financial front: Respondents are earning significantly more than the group of planners who responded to the last survey in late February and early March of 2020 , right before COVID lockdowns. In our 2020 survey, only 14 percent worked from home full-time and one-third part-time. Credentialed Planners Earn More.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

So if you’re trying to bring in a remote presenter or somebody is having mic problems, chances are by the time you get the person down there, whatever it was that needed to be fixed at that moment has passed. Come here’ And the same thing applies to our online platforms.”

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 25, 2021

Not surprisingly, the achievement most often cited by participants was their ability to shift to virtual events — from remote classes to large conferences to international trade shows. But my organization produced our first online conference and it was well-received by attendees. Transition to live remote learning classes.

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Sojern

JUNE 23, 2021

In February, we did a look back at 2020 and a look forward at 2021 data , using a combination of Sojern and PlaceIQ data to understand COVID-19 recovery and the bigger picture of the traveler through layering these insights together. Travelers are especially drawn to the remote, outdoor options in the state. January 2020 – June 2021.

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Skift Meetings

JUNE 22, 2022

With many meeting planners and event organizers doubling up their bookings to compensate for postponed events from 2021 (and even 2020), it’s getting harder and harder to find hotel rooms and meeting spaces for groups both large and small. The Fastest Way to Bring Remote Teams Together.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Christel Sieling, Director of Operations at Odyssey, shared how they’ve pivoted their live hackathon, called Momentum, into a virtual format in 2020. Asked about the challenges in creating Momentum, Christel shared, ‘When bringing the hackathon online, everyone’s success depends on their ability to connect and collaborate with other people.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 7, 2024

Schick will be on stage in person and Gawdat, a bestselling author and former CBO of Google X, will be broadcast from a remote location. Her book, Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse , was published in 2020, well before Open AI launched ChatGPT. Schick is an AI authority, entrepreneur, author, and speaker.

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The MICE Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In fact, Meg and I met online, and collaborated on multiple occasions. Meg had helped me to launch and coordinate the Event Planners Talk hackathon in April 2020 and the Event Planners Talk Digital Festival in June 2020. That happened because we were all online. They have those collaborations. They have new friendships.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2022

Still, the industry doesn’t look the way it did before March 2020. Tourists then and now express a need for a high level of personalization , they want to easily book trips and make transactions online. is the Norwegian next generation corporate travel management platform launched in 2020. Let’s look at some of them.

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Sojern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In 2020, there were virtually no holiday travel bookings until September as flight capacity was cut, destinations were locked down, and people were concerned about health and safety. Our data shows that many people are comfortable making solid plans for their holidays, with longer lead times than in 2020. Key Trends: .

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

First, AJ talks about how they handled the dreaded year of the pandemic, 2020. That way, we could provide engagement in their home and provide an immersive experience when they were watching the event online.” 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 12, 2021

Remote arrangements freed employees of some constraints in 2020, but it also sparked burnout as some put in even longer hours, reports The Wall Street Journal. Just like in-person meetings, online meetings are powerful vehicles for building your personal brand with people who matter, but they can also mar your brand.

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