Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Madison Butler, founder of HR and DEI consultancy Blue Haired Unicorn, wrote a LinkedIn post that became a directory of Black speakers, the Black Speakers Collection website. Black speakers and Black speaker recommendations started flowing in. At that point, there were 28 speakers. The next day, on Dec.

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Stova

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Booking the right speaker is critical to the success of your event. If you’re wondering where to begin when it comes to how to find a speaker or just looking for some new ideas, you’re in luck! We turned to our panel of experts and asked them: Have you seen any dynamic speakers recently you would recommend?

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Bizzaboo

JULY 25, 2022

You’ve built an all-star lineup of virtual speakers for your next event. It’s time to tackle speaker management for your event. . of event organizers find it easier to enlist outstanding speakers for virtual events than in-person gatherings. Speakers are a vital part of your event’s success.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

Where Certified Meeting Professionals gather, connection and innovation flourish From March 11-13, 2024, events industry professionals who hold the esteemed Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation gathered in Toronto at the Fairmont Royal York. Side note: it’s important to distinguish between feeling lonely and having alone time.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2021

While event organizers are getting good at planning in-person, hybrid and online events, booking the right speakers and keeping attendees engaged are still some of the biggest challenges. With online events especially, attendees can get distracted by looking at their phones or trying to multitask during presentations.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The post 100+ speaker lineup in Saudi Arabia at Athar Festival 2023 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. As a strategic partner of Athar Festival, the first and largest of its kind in the country, we are realizing our goal of truly attracting high calibre international events.”

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

People used Zoom to host virtual events as well as catch up with their loved ones. Even though there are now more than 100 event platforms on the market, many event planners still choose Zoom in its limited form for their virtual experiences. Zoom also poses a challenge for event video storage. Let’s explore!

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

UBQ Materials, developer of the world’s first bio-based thermoplastic, is helping create the first global event built from landfill waste. We can supply the most climate-positive kind of plastic material…that are used in event production.”. Each start-up will get one [booth panel] and they can customize as they need,” Tuviahu says. “We

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Endless Events

JULY 15, 2021

For those who might have missed it, there was an awesome hybrid event happening in Phoenix, Arizona last week: PCMA EduCon: We Are Better Together ! As anticipated, it was a huge success and the Event Brew hosts are here to tell the story. And there’s more: he was also the co-host of the entire event!

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 2, 2023

The post SXSW Sydney announces speakers for the inaugural Sydney festival appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Announced last year, SXSW will venture out of Austin for the first time with an additional annual event, bringing the creative platform to Asia-Pacific, premiering this October in sunny Sydney, Australia.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 4, 2020

It’s already been established that virtual and hybrid events will be the industry’s bread and butter for a while. For instance, you probably read every article under the sun teaching you about virtual audience engagement, sponsorships, speakers, and more. Moving Towards Virtual Event Production.

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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

MARCH 19, 2020

It’s time to take some notes and learn how to plan better virtual events! So as we all know, the events industry is witnessing a major shift. And many planners are looking to turn their in-person events into virtual events. This is why this week’s Event Brew is all about how to plan better virtual events.

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Endless Events

MARCH 21, 2022

Now and then, the Event Tech Podcast reviews a certain product or service. This week, Brandt and Endless Events’ Kyle Kocinski do a case study on Remo , one of the top 22 event platforms to use in 2022. Remo is a map-based virtual event platform that has been building events and meetings since 2018.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 28, 2023

Read More: Prepare for GMID 2023: Resolve to Continue Advocating for Events The future is Now As the industry recovers from the pandemic era, the focus on innovation and asking “what’s next?” CST with a panel of industry leaders to discuss the most current trends and the effects they will have on the future of meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

It’s 2023, and we’re still talking about a lack of accessibility in the events industry. From an absence of diverse panel speakers to a lack of options for those visually or hearing impaired, events still aren’t catering to everyone. Lack of planning and understanding audience needs can hinder event attendances.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After a one-year hiatus due to Covid, the largest meetings industry event returned to a new home at Mandalay Bay Casino Resort this week and the buzz at the 10th annual hosted buyer show was reminiscent of years past. IMEX Group Chairman Ray Bloom reported that more than 3,300 buyers and 2,200 exhibiting companies attended.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Learning tracks cover challenges that keep meeting professionals up at night When what is expected to be the largest crowd ever for an events industry trade show arrives at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in October for IMEX America 2023 , the focus will squarely be on connecting people in new, effective ways. to 12:30 p.m.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is hosting its annual 2023 conference at Nashville’s Music City Center with a change in how it approaches the in-person event. With this knowledge, MGMA decided to shift its digital event space to give more attention to those who are no longer attending in-person events. “If

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 24, 2023

The post New Zealand’s Business Events industry set to meet in Marlborough appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Registrations are open for Business Events Industry Aotearoa’s (BEIA) annual conference in Marlborough which kicks off New Zealand’s inaugural Business Events Week on 18 September.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Breaking Down “Wellness Washing” Smart Meetings began with an application of the definition of wellness washing to meetings and events: that is, the tendency to throw in some wellness activities at the end of a meeting or event rather than weave it throughout. The speakers shared their own definitions of wellness.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 11, 2018

Turn your event attendees into event participants. Try these six audience engagement techniques at your next event. Have you ever been to one of those events that bore you out of your mind? The speaker drones on, reading from their notecards or plain white powerpoint slides. Why they’re attending the event?

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 12, 2023

I asked it to develop a list of panel questions. I asked it to source a list of experts to sit on that panel. Next, ask it to write a set of fireside chat questions for your CEO to ask the expert speaker during that mainstage session. Ask it to write an invitation letter for the session that you can send to possible speakers.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2022

The future of events is…Zoom? Yet, event professionals have the opportunity to create visionary events and plan meetings that replicate the vibrancy and liveliness that existed in person while enjoying the flexibility and safety that a hybrid/online event provides. Zoom Meetings vs. Webinars vs. Events .

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

2022 is going to be our best year yet; we’ve embraced exciting new event technology and hybrid events as the way of the future! If 2020 was a year of pivoting and learning about virtual events, 2021 was a year of putting that knowledge to the test. Which virtual event platform features to look for? The result?

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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. And we found just the speaker to talk about it! It was very elegant!

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The MICE Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

START Summit was later established as one of the Global Projects and had its first event in 2007. In 2015, the first ‘big Summit’ took place on the campus, and in 2016, the event relocated to the Olma Messen St.Gallen, the biggest exhibition hall in the city. I travelled to St. Gallen for new team members.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 10, 2020

For event industry professionals, networking is of particular importance. After all, it’s one of the main drivers for attendance at events around the world, Still, many participants either don’t love it, or just aren’t very skilled at it. . What is worth remembering is that the event you’re planning is a break from everyday life.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

It’s 2023, and we’re still talking about a lack of accessibility in the events industry. From an absence of diverse panel speakers to a lack of options for those visually or hearing impaired, events still aren’t catering to everyone. Lack of planning and understanding audience needs can hinder event attendances.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Simply scroll through for images and tips to get the inspiration flowing for your next corporate event. Source: Encore Event Technologies. With some 18,000 people attending the IBM Impact Conference, every aspect of the event must engage huge amounts of people. ICA (International Cotton Association) Trade Event 2016.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Former undergraduate participants of the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists who now are in leadership positions return to be speakers at the event, which drew more than 5,000 attendees in 2023. Now they come back — on stage — as keynote speakers to tell their story.”

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Smart Meetings

JULY 12, 2022

Event marketers are ramping up in-person events with a fresh perspective provided by two years of virtual meetings and the proliferation of tech specifically focused on video conferencing. Administering such features can be an effective method of keeping virtual attendees engaged following a keynote speaker or panel discussion.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 9, 2023

Event management software can potentially make an event planner’s job more efficient. In July, we discussed this exact issue in the episode, Why is there no good event software? What Does Joi Bring to Event Management. I ended up in corporate events running an agency from Australia that was creating events all over Asia.

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 29, 2023

. – Officials of the California Lodging Investment Conference [CLIC], the only hospitality conference focused on the California hotel market, announced the successful conclusion and follow-up survey results for its sixth annual event held at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

Its chapters are holding individual in-person events, as well. PCMA Southeast partnered with MPI’s Carolinas Chapter to hold an event at Bank of American Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. PCMA PCMA chapter events across the U.S. are taking place, via networking events and presentations from industry professionals.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 16, 2024

16, by the global events company: Attendance at in-person events, which has risen as the worst of the pandemic has receded, is expected to hold steady over the next 12 months. It’s 2024,” he said, “and I want you to repeat after me: I will not … compare my event … to 2019 … anymore.”

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The MICE Blog

JULY 26, 2021

On 14th July, Hubilo hosted their first virtual event and presented the next generation of virtual and hybrid events. In the past 18 months, we’ve seen a rapid evolution of virtual events regarding event technology platforms and online experiences. The experience that we receive now is unmatched by any physical event.

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