Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

The sustainability program is designed to assist guests and meeting planners in developing a deeper understanding of their carbon footprint while traveling. She has served as an ardent steward of climate-positive business.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 10, 2016

With separate teams for weddings, corporate meetings and special events, Just Events will make sure you have the expert for your specialized needs. Florida Coast to Coast is a Global Events Partner with decades of experience in travel, incentive planning and full service events. Florida Coast to Coast.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2023

For the most part, when event planners engage with attendees it is primarily after the event, in the form of surveys to see how attendees felt about the event. They turn up and they’re fully engaged because they feel like they’ve had some involvement in the design of that event.”.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

states will see new data privacy laws in 2023, which could change how planners approach the way they gather attendee information. We spoke with Jill Blood, vice president of deputy general counsel for Maritz Global Events, about what these new laws could mean for meeting planners.

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Bizzaboo

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

We encourage every event planner to mark their calendars for the following 35 events and conferences in 2020. We know how hard it can be to find great events to attend, so we’ve made it easier for you. For those who host events in the foodservice and hospitality industries, HRC is a must. Event Technology Awards.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

We’ve compiled a list of websites for event planners so some of the hardest-working professionals can complete every task on their list. Skift Meetings (formerly EventMB) Formerly known as EventMB, Skift Meetings was founded in 2007 as one of the first blogs for event professionals. Ready to dive straight in?

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Tembusu Events and Communications

APRIL 27, 2021

Event planner is an entire industry on its own that’s filled with firms that offer different event planning services at different price points, but even within the space itself it is common to find a lot of heterogeneity to fit ever changing consumer needs.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 9, 2024

Read More : How Meeting Planners Can Pre-plan for Event Crisis Management Additionally, the broader PR team should work from a separate breakout space, ideally located near the Command Center, to maintain continuous communication with the central crisis management team. Mark Catuogno, M.A.,

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This is my passion—and being part of the global events industry is my second passion.” They receive this through anything from a personal recognition meeting to a team gathering where they toast to the success of the recent event. Be it private or professional, special moments give us strength, energy and motivation.”

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

There are a lot of things event planners need to be ready for. Want to get ahead of the game and modernize your event? Here are challenges and opportunities event planners can expect in the next decade. Event Planner Challenges. Data protection is always on event planners’ minds.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Think then about how event experiences can advance that purpose through alignment with the commercial objectives. Meeting planners, too, can use a high EQ and emotional intelligence to design successful events. Read More : How Meeting Profs Can Improve Event Engagement Inspire, motivate and follow up.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

After the pandemic hit us, event planners had no choice but to make an unprecedented pivot to virtual events. With the power of virtual events, event planners all of a sudden had a chance to reach a larger audience and get their name out there. Curious how much do event translation and captioning cost?

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Techsytalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The pandemic powered many global event partnerships in a way that has made our industry better. In this episode, we chat with Jennifer Clark to learn more about how she’s been helping the techsytalk team do things we couldn’t do on our own, and how she’s helping and learning from event planners all over the world!

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2023

A meeting planner earns their certification through a course of study, an exam and a comprehensive professional evaluation. He grew up to become one of Events Industry Council’s (EIC) proud Certified Meeting Planners (CMP). In 2006, he earned his CMP certification from EIC.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

After one big effort in August, nearly six times as many Maritz Global Events employees are certified in event sustainability. Over the past year, a handful of employees at Maritz Global Events, Fenton, Mo., had earned their SEPC.

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Endless Events

MAY 9, 2023

Human effort is still very much a part of the event planning process. In fact, AI is one of the fastest-growing technologies event planners trust to plan, promote, and analyze their events. Check out these five tips to use the combined power of AI and data to make your next event a smash hit.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A recent survey takes the pulse of meeting planners, asking about budgets, contracts, airfares, virtual meetings, and more. If higher costs are your challenge when executing events, one thing is for sure: You’re not alone. Contracts: The survey asked planners about their number-one concern when negotiating a contract.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2022

Event planners don’t always have time to go to a class or read a book. That understanding led her to record a 10-chapter course that went live this month complete with exercises that covers everything from career path to CSR and Inclusion. Sometimes we learn best with snackable content in 5-minutes a day,” she said. Career Changers.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2022

The 3 days of gathering started with Destinations International ’s Convention Sales and Services Summit, covering everything from trends in what is important to attendees today to tips for planning more inclusive events. This is an indication of how serious planners are getting about addressing social issues: “It isn’t a yes or no answer.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

While we were cooped up inside our homes, waiting for the return to in-person events , many event technology companies got to work and came up with amazing software solutions that make the event registration process even more valuable to event planners. Event Registration Basics.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Maritz Global Events released its Industry Trends Report at IMEX America with some eye-popping data on the rising cost of hotels, airfares, F&B, and other event-budget elements. For its Industry Trends Report, October 2023 edition, Maritz Global Events crunched numbers from the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2022

Dallas-based global event company Freeman promoted Moggré to chief client officer. Previously, Davis was director of marketing services at NPIPB’s Florida office, but she has spent over 30 years building NPIPB’s relationships with partners, agents, operators and planners across the Western Hemisphere. Martin Moggré.

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Maritz Global Events

OCTOBER 23, 2019

At some point in their careers, all meeting and event planners will have a horror story they won’t soon forget. In this first part of a two-part series, our meeting planners and event managers relive some of their most “terrifying” encounters at events. No one is immune.

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Endless Events

MAY 14, 2021

As event planners were thrust into the throes of virtual events in early 2020, confusion and fear were the first things to settle in. And now that it seems as if the worst of the pandemic is behind us, everything shifts radically once more for the events industry. Global Events & International Event Planning.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

While a live shooter may be what comes to mind first when considering worst-case scenarios, today’s planners also have to be on the lookout for a mistimed social media post or optics that are not aligned with the DEI or sustainability goals of the company.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2023

. — David Allison, founder of The Valuegraphics Project , presented research on this topic at IMEX in Frankfurt and Vegas, as well as to ASAE, MPI’s WEC, and at SITE global events. Our data is used by brands like PayPal, lululemon, the United Nations Foundation and Five Star school supplies.

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2021

Kristin Horstman is a senior director at Salesforce and has been on our show just recently , Johnnie White is the CEO of the American Society of Appraisers, and Rachael Riggs is a WellBeing Leader at Maritz Global Events. ” Johnnie starts telling the story of how they helped promote health and wellness in the events industry.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those were the questions addressed to a panel of veteran corporate planners during a session at Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders conference last month. Other than Allen, the planners all have small teams that handle a few hundred meetings each year.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2023

He saw international air lift as a bottleneck constricting global events. “We Planners may have to be flexible about dates, but that is one way to get around the ratios. International Plane Shortage Resulting in More Domestic Travel. We need more planes,” he stated. Read More : Navigating the Bus Driver Shortage.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 10, 2023

Negotiating for this must-have service is a regular part of the job for Klein, ( below ) CEO of M-Plus Global Events, and he shared his advice on the topic during a session at Catersource + The Special Event in late March. And the providers, Klein says, have their eyes out for inexperienced planners.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner.

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InEvent

AUGUST 2, 2023

Event planning is a complex and demanding job that requires a diverse set of skills. Event planners are responsible for organizing and coordinating events of all types and sizes, from weddings and corporate conferences to music festivals and charity fundraisers.

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Endless Events

MARCH 26, 2019

Will Curran of Endless Events ( @ItsWillCurran). Check out the epic resources mentioned in this episode: Sh*t Event Planners Say – #EventIcons Episode 26. The Biggest Takeaways from the Global Event Forum – #EventIcons Episode 154. The Future of 5G at Events – Event Tech Podcast. Win Without Pitching.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

Read More: Meet the 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Award Winners “We don’t build events for robots, we build them for humans and should anticipate their needs as individuals,” Heather Hartland, CMP, CMM, Vice President, Experiential Marketing, ThreatLocker “As a female leader, I stand on the shoulders of so many who came before me and it is my responsibility (..)

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MeetingsNet

MAY 23, 2023

Based on several hundred planner responses, MPI’s latest industry outlook finds that rising prices have strained meeting budgets, and will likely continue to do so into 2024. Heading up the list is food and beverage, where 55 percent of planners have dealt with costs that are at least 10 percent higher than they were one year prior.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That could be why more than two-thirds (71 percent) of respondents to our meeting planner survey say free-flowing alcohol at events now concern them from a duty-of-care perspective. People at events expect to be able to drink alcohol, and some studies have shown attendance often drops off if booze isn’t part of the draw.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2022

Event planners don’t always have time to go to a class or read a book. That understanding led her to record a 10-chapter course that went live this month complete with exercises that covers everything from career path to CSR and Inclusion. Sometimes we learn best with snackable content in 5-minutes a day,” she said. Career Changers.

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