Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

How “Intermissions” could launch brilliant second halves of event careers When you have reached the heights of the hospitality ladder like MGM Resorts International Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer Stephanie Glanzer, where do you go? We understand employees have passions and goals outside of work.

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Special Events

AUGUST 10, 2023

Seven ways planners can use this AI platform

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

We are highlighting women who have worked their way up and earned the position of General Manager (GM) to show our appreciation for their dedication to hospitality, their genuine passion for helping others and for standing strong in an industry where men still dominate the majority of leadership roles. A: I am a God-fearing person.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2024

AI is not just one more thing they have to learn to do their jobs. “It You just have to talk like you normally talk and ask it to do things as you would ask an intern who doesn’t know anything, but is really good at researching,” he said. You know what’s possible with more horsepower,” he said. Guaranteed. Never fear.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

One topic in particular came up again and again: how do we connect, really ? And how can we do it better? After all, if you bring together a group of zealous meeting professionals…for a meeting…what else could be a more on-the-nose topic of conversation?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2024

Resources for green meetings; for today, and for the future Earth Day: it’s not just about spending extra time thinking about what we love about nature. credit: Shutterstock Think of it as a “green New Years’,” a day for setting resolutions we mean to keep through this year, and beyond. What about your event badges?

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Motivation Excellence

APRIL 1, 2024

A self-described “shy person,” we appreciate her willingness to sit down with us for this month’s Get to Know ME edition. What’s your current title and how long have you been in the incentive industry? What’s your current title and how long have you been in the incentive industry? What do you like about your job?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We sat down with the Maritz team to ask what top event technology trends they see for 2024 and how they will fundamentally change the meeting professional’s job. It’s really a transformational year in terms of how we’re moving and growing,” said Amy Kramer, market and product innovation leader with Maritz.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Moving Past Normal With the Las Vegas CES setting record numbers for attendance in January, we asked Dominguez what this means for the meeting industry. To me, ChatGPT is to AI what Bitcoin is to blockchain. What we’ve done now is put that on steroids,” says Dominguez. We have the reverse opportunity right now.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

The sticky details and specific wording make for important safeguards for planners as well as suppliers in ensuring everyone gets what they want out of the partnership. You can do great things for them, and they can do great things for you,” he says. “It’s We can make it right.” Outside vendors or exclusive vendors?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Smart Meetings heard from industry leaders as they shared what they are grateful for—in their lives, as well as in their illustrious careers. Victoria Matey Victoria Matey Event Psychology Advisor, Matey Events What are you grateful for in your life? What are you grateful for in your career? How do you practice gratitude?

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Motivation Excellence

APRIL 18, 2024

What exactly is a carbon footprint? The gases we emit actually trap the heat from the sun inside our atmosphere. Reuse rather than buy new – find that trendy thrift store near you Maybe We Can Help David Jobes, the owner and CEO at Motivation Excellence, has long been eco-minded. Maybe they’ll give you an idea or two!

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

What made this destination an ideal location for NAMM? How soon in the process you do start working with them and how would you describe the communication arrangement? CS : We work with VA very closely. They are my sales contact for ACC (Anaheim Convention Center) and we work together on future dates.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We give so much to others. We love so much for others, but we really need to start with loving ourselves. By doing that, you are brightening your light. Cliffe says, We are now constantly at this heightened state, and we don’t even realize that we are. You are showing up as your authentic self.”

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Endless Events

MARCH 21, 2022

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. The competition among event platforms is stiff these days, so event planners must understand what makes a certain platform stand out from the rest. What is Remo? We’re global.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2024

Smart Meetings: Do the numbers show that flying has become more dangerous or are there just more stories about it? SM: What are the percentages of flights that have problems? SM: Should we be looking up the type of aircraft before we fly? Yet what will it provide? SM: What be done to strengthen trust?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2024

But,” she says, “the biggest thing is to have confidence that you can do it. I would study a chapter, make notes, and then summarize what I had read. All-important when it comes to preparing for the exam, Carvalho says, “Don’t doubt yourself, what you know or your abilities. What will they do?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 2, 2024

Defining Work/Life Balance Spencer Glazer Smart Meetings: How do you define work/life balance, and why is it important to speak on this topic? Spencer Glazer: Work/life balance is having a perfect in-between for the things that you enjoy doing in your personal life as well as your work, and finding boundaries to keep those things in line.

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Endless Events

MARCH 7, 2022

When we talk about the most popular event platform features , we typically think of registration and ticketing , integrations, gamification, and analytics reporting, for example. But what good are any of those if event planners are not taught how to use them or if they stop working mid-event? Who will enter the data?”

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Endless Events

AUGUST 8, 2022

“We were helping anyone who had a community communicate with that community. Since everyone we were working with already had a live bot, we were able to turn that on and deploy a rapid response bot. That was the first move to see if we could just help the event world respond to the pandemic.”

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 13, 2024

The leaders would come on TV at the end of the day and say, ‘We collected 20,000 tons of garbage this year, what an amazing Mardi Gras it was.’ That was a long time ago and a different mindset, but I think now it’s really good to see our leaders talking about how much we were able to divert from landfills as a measure of success.”

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2024

Sheldon Jacobson, who has worked in aviation and airport security since the mid ‘90s and has had interactions with TSA, says what they’re hoping to do is add efficiency, although, in the short run, he doesn’t believe it’ll actually be all that much quicker than a normal run through the airport security checkpoint. “The

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The association recently called for a rebrand of what was once called Medical Practice Excellence Conference: Leaders Conference, dropping the first half of the name in an effort to attract the first element of the conference, namely, the leaders in medical practices. “It What do you want to get out of either event?”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Editor’s Note: As we celebrate the 2023 Meeting Professionals of the Year , we thought it fitting to go back to a 2020 Meeting Professionals of the Year winner, John Cruz, senior corporate meeting planner with BlueCross of North Carolina , for some perspective. I would say try and gain as much experience in as many areas as you can.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Read More: Better Than Before What is Sustainability to You? Carbon produced by an event is only one small part of what should be tracked, and the tool may be too large of an investment for just one event. To get started, determine what your company’s sustainability goals are. You don’t have to meet every single one.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2024

We create an outsized GDP and jobs-for-the-investment made in the sector. We are competing for attendees in a world that is motivated and aggressive in courting our audiences. is the most desired destination in the world, but not the most visited because we make travel too difficult. That is the only way we will see change.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Still, as we move into 2023, more and more companies announce layoffs, spending freezes, and low metrics. As much as I’d like to say we’re reincorporating the in-person audience, there’s definitely a rush to just do in-person,” he says. “A So where do we go from here?”. Everyone knows what a webinar is.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

That’s why we’ve brought on an expert on all things attendee engagement metrics, Ryan Costello. He challenges us to remember that we are in the business of humans. and I failed, but I was interested in the work we were doing.” . “My What does your event stack look like? Let’s get right into it!

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Motivation Excellence

MARCH 14, 2024

She’s got a happy, can-do attitude and if you pass a bar with karaoke, you know she’s going to duck inside for a moment (or two). What’s your current title and how long have you been in the incentive industry? What do you like about your job? What’s an unknown or odd talent you have? Everyday is different!

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As we exit the pandemic era, companies are looking to understand how they can drive event-led growth and how events can, in turn, drive growth for their business; that’s why we’ve brought on a special guest for this episode of #EventIcons , Mark Kilens. Here’s what he had to say. . “My What Does Event-Led Growth Mean to Mark?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

With so much experience in the business of event entertainment and production, we checked in with Miller to glean some insight into how the industry has changed since he first began, what event production trends are taking shape and what the future of event production may look like. “A What are the actual outcomes we want?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 26, 2023

We operate internationally. We’ve flown up to Costa Rica to do shows, we’ve done shows in our own backyard and everywhere in between. We try to service anyplace that we possibly can, as far as what we do,” said Fernandez. But as far as how many we fly, that’s on a case-by-case basis,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 23, 2024

Read More: Hope for a Better Partnership Solution ReVisionary Thinking Courtney Clark What could you achieve with improved cognitive flexibility? Change isn’t what trips us up. That is where resilience—what she calls “ReVisionary Thinking”—kicks in. The infinite variables in a meeting prof life can do that to a person.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2023

doing good deeds without asking for anything other than to pay it forward. Presentation On-demand Giving and Getting The win-win of living, planning events and doing business with a giving mindset is linked to human biology. Sometimes we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life and we tend to have a lot of blind spots.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2023

Fighting the Divisive Michael Tennant The initial goal of the Actually Curious card game developed out of what Tennant saw as a need to bring people together. “We We ended up creating Actually Curious because we didn’t want to just talk. So, we created the tool,” said Tennant. What’s your superpower?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2024

Many companies claim to have a great culture, underscoring the word’s importance, but what does that really mean in practical terms? Culture isn’t merely what you declare it to be; it’s what you do. What happened before? No one ever said I was doing a good job and I was.”

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

As things currently stand in the events industry, we’re planning events in 2022 as if the COVID-19 pandemic never existed. What would the Brew Crew have event planners do to plan better events? After all, aren’t we supposed to give attendees what they want? “We can double the value of our event.

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