Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Drumming Up Business: Virtual Events For Lead Generation: A Powerful Tool You Should Use! ? Are you struggling with virtual attendance? Maybe you’re not successfully integrating your event into people’s lives. Inside Lands and the VMAs show us how it’s done ??.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2021

Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi opens the virtual Data + AI Summit North America 2021, showing its platform. When we had to pivot from in-person to virtual for the 2020 program, it was a very short runway. But with the 2021 event, we knew well in advance that we were going to stay the course.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 6, 2020

The annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association known as CES has long been considered the digital stage for innovation. Because it’s recently been announced that CES 2021 will be entirely virtual, keeping up with the latest trend. Virtual is here to stay. Click To Tweet. I like the challenge.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Another week, another inspiring story about pivoting to virtual events! All across the nation, event planners have been learning the ropes of virtual events. She studied Convention, Event, and Exhibition Management and has been a titan of the industry for years. Pivoting To Virtual Events: The First One.

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Endless Events

MARCH 23, 2021

For weeks, we have been discussing virtual and hybrid events, engagement strategies, and all kinds of other pandemic-related issues. Today, it’s time for something different, but just as relevant: we will talk about diversity in events as of 2021. Diversity In Events 2021: More Than Just A Trend.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: RFPs Made Easy: Virtual Event RFP: What To Include (With Free Template!). 2020 Tech: Looking Back At 2020 In Events. ?? New virtual event tool alert! Check out our brand spanking new Virtual Event Request for Proposal Matrix! ??. Event Tech Podcast is back, baby! (45-min

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Here are other factors that make for the ideal virtual event, according to the new survey results. That was nearly identical to the percentage — 93 percent — who chose that response when Kenes Group, a Geneva, Switzerland–based professional conference organizer, surveyed HCP virtual-event attendees in 2020.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 27, 2021

Many event planning conferences were canceled or postponed, and most of those that weren’t took place virtually. While 2021 may still look a little different than normal, expect to see many conferences back and ready to help industry professionals navigate the massive changes in the way they do business.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

The 2021 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) annual congress was all virtual and hosted from Philadelphia. In March 2020, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) announced that its annual congress, set to take place in Milan in July, would be moving to a virtual format. Lisa Astorga.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Events industry professionals continues to navigate the twists and turns of doing business in the constantly fluid COVID-19 environment. The conversation thread fore-shadows a pivot, once again, to digital events in late 2021 due to a fluid COVID-19 environment. We are predominately virtual for quarter four [of 2021].

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

In February 2021, less than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Hilarity for Charity — the nonprofit led by Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen and dedicated to support families impacted by Alzheimer’s disease and to promote brain-health advocacy and education — organized its first-ever CareCon to honor and connect family caregivers.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“We live in a hybrid world where almost every major event has a virtual component, even if we don’t call it that,” said Bizzabo Chief Marketing Officer Alon Alroy. By the fall of 2021, a lot of Joanna Pineda’ global clients were saying they were done with virtual. The Back-up Plan. Then omicron and the culture wars hit.

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Meet Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This constitutes a 78% increase in countries represented through virtual attendance in 2020. While in-person events started to come back in 2021, the Delta variant has caused a large percentage to convert back to virtual in the fall of 2021. Future-Proof Your Organization Now. How to Future-Proof Your Event.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

It seems that the asynchronous communication trend has also started making waves in the meeting and events industry , namely as asynchronous hybrid events. As discussed in our 2022 Event Trends Guide , hybrid events are not simply in-person and virtual events put together. The same goes for content delivery.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 23, 2021

Cvent CEO & Founder Reggie Aggarwal pointed to the accelerated digital transformation of meetings and events due to the global pandemic and the popularity of its cloud-based platform to serve as an all-in-one solution to drive live engagement across all event types. The post Cvent Going Public with $5.3

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Alcor Mice

JANUARY 26, 2021

Since then, companies have continued exploring different ways to create a perfect virtual event. According to Bizzabo, as much as 93 % of event marketers have incorporated virtual events into their strategy for 2021. It is clear that virtual events are here to stay for the foreseeable future.

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2020

And w hile 66% say that they have postponed their events, 25% of events are being rescheduled for September or later. And will virtual events be the new normal? Post-Pandemic Events: Where to start? Events are tactile and offer opportunities that cannot be replaced using electronic mediums. .

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Smart Meetings

JULY 23, 2021

Cvent CEO & Founder Reggie Aggarwal pointed to the accelerated digital transformation of meetings and events due to the global pandemic and the popularity of its cloud-based platform to serve as an all-in-one solution to drive live engagement across all event types. The post Cvent Going Public with $5.3

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Cort

MARCH 26, 2021

For most organizations, fundraising season is a nickname that’s been given to the last few months at the end of the year when most annual donations are made. For these same organizations, this period of time can be make or break. Virtual Auctions . What did change is the way these organizations hold their auctions.

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One10 Marketing

MARCH 10, 2021

One10 Xperts weigh in on IRF’s 2021 Trends Report. The IRF 2021 Trends Report is out and we couldn’t be more thrilled! Here’s the One10 take on 2021 trends and what we’re doing to meet client needs in 2021 and beyond: IRF Trend: Increase in Individual Rewards. IRF Trend: Large Group Events Deferred, but Still a Priority.

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Endless Events

JUNE 24, 2021

Last Saturday, he had his first 2021 live event experience when he went to a 15,000-person music festival in Arizona. Will’s First 2021 Live Event Experience. Meanwhile, companies such as CrowdPass are developing game-changing technologies to ensure future events are COVID-compliant. Wait, what!?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For a preview, we asked Eric Holmen, CEO of Splash , the event marketing software company that powers tens of thousands of business events each month, for trends in how organizers are adjusting their programs. During that time, the total number of virtual events could decline, but the value of each one will increase.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Author Luuvie Ajayi Jones (left) and actor Gabrielle Union take part in one of the three MAKERS@Home virtual events in 2021. And in November, MAKERS featured a “finale” event that involved talks from 2021 National Youth Poet Laureate Alexandra Huynh, and climate justice advocate Lauren Ritchie.

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DCI

JUNE 3, 2021

People still need to remain separate while dining, at events, in hotels, but there are a few ways to start thinking differently – and better. It might seem like more work, but a bit more organization upfront will produce better results later this summer and fall as travel begins to pick up again. A MEGA FAM trip is not the way forward.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

In many ways, 2021 felt like a series of false starts. After a promising but brief return to in-person-only events in the spring, the Delta and Omicron variants forced many event organizers to renavigate a hybrid event landscape to engage both digital and physical audiences. KiKi L’Italien. Marjorie Anderson.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What will the road ahead be like for the events industry? The Convene editors look back on an ever-changing 2021 and ask the question: What event trend is on my radar for 2022? Digital Events Will Borrow Storytelling Tools — Not B-Roll — From Filmmakers. Finding Middle Ground for Virtual Events.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 27, 2022

The collaboration with VSef, the global data format for virtual events, will speed the push to make data easily accessible from and transferable between different online platforms and analytics tools. In early 2021, U.K-based

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JANUARY 27, 2021

Top 10 Must-Do’s for Post-COVID Channel Incentives and Virtual Lead Gen Events in 2021. With COVID-19 vaccines in sight and the next normal starting to settle in, it’s time to look at what channel incentive programs need to do in 2021 to keep the sales pipeline full. Make a New Start.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If you’ve been paying attention to the event trends set to redefine the industry, you’ll know that hybrid is up there with the most relevant. In fact, according to our State of The Industry Survey , 64% of planners believe hybrid events will be the most common experiences in 2021. Financial Incentives.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Shifting trends are found in how planners are measuring sustainability as well as overall event success, plus technology, budgets, and staffing. Another area where the focus of planners has shifted from last year is in measuring the effectiveness of virtual events. social-media engagement (73 percent versus 51 percent in 2020).

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Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

After a successful — albeit begrudging — era in which virtual events reigned supreme , event professionals are increasingly planning and executing in-person events once again. Looking ahead to 2023, 85% of event organizers plan to host at least three in-person events, with 35% planning to host at least 10.

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Solimar International

JULY 1, 2021

The USAID/Developing Sustainable Tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Turizam), in partnership with Solimar International and UNWTO Academy, organized a joint webinar entitled ‘ Introduction to UNWTO TedQual for universities with tourism programs in Bosnia & Herzegovina Webinar’.

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Endless Events

APRIL 2, 2020

And what does a world without live events mean for event profs? Many are choosing to turn to virtual events as a way to keep things moving. What is their take on virtual events? And what are the skills event profs can harness to use in other industries? I believe face-to-face is superior to virtual.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The two-part CEMA webinar series, “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After,” reviewed what worked and what didn’t at Workiva’s Amplify virtual events. In that same spirit, I tuned in to the two-part CEMA webinar series , “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After.”

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

3 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, looked very different than previous versions, it was kicked off with a rapid-fire session that has been a mainstay of the event over the years: Organizer Sam Lippman starts the clock and challenges himself to share five industry trends in five minutes.

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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. When the world was in lockdown, many organizations whipped their in-person events into virtual versions in short order.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

In July, Evolio Marketing and Lippman Connects published “Attendee Acquisition and Event Marketing Survey Report,” offering a glimpse into what 89 event marketers have on their minds and on their drawing boards as the pandemic wears on. Biggest Takeaways. Sam Lippman. Definitely a skill for our times.

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