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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

In 2000, I decided to found a company, something that will change the industry, and I established the first marketplace to organise events online. You had an event management agency during the 2008 crisis and lost 50% of your business in one week. Although it was exciting at that time, almost no company had a webpage. How did you feel?

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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

After Slido was acquired in 2021, Holub cofounded Remote People, a consulting and training company for remote teams, based in the U.K. Without LinkedIn, where Holub frequently posts content about topics including facilitation, meeting design, and online meetings, “it would be close to impossible to pivot to a new business.

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Solimar’s Sustainable Tourism Internship – Where are Former Interns Now?

Solimar International

Tesia interned at Solimar International in the summer of 2007 in the DC office and in 2008 in Costa Rica. Additionally, as a member of the first remote internship cohort, Jenny has worked each semester to improve the experience of subsequent virtual tourism intern cohorts. office to completely remotely across five continents.

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How We Pivoted to Produce Virtual Events

Meeting Tomorrow

Would their speakers be able to present remotely? Clients were turning to us because we’d been producing virtual events since 2008, and also brought a deep understanding of live events. Typically, large conferences with thousands of people wouldn’t be completely virtual — and bringing events online isn’t an apples-to-apples task.

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Virtual Meetings Lower Costs … and Interaction

Conferences that Work

There was no in-person gathering site, the questions were submitted in advance, and management and the board made all of their presentations online.” ” — Steven Davidoff Solomon , New York Times, Online Shareholders’ Meetings Lower Costs, but Also Interaction. “Intel’s annual meeting was entirely virtual.

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Key Takeaways from Tech Sector Layoffs

Gavel International

Workers could work from home and classes could be taken online. remote working environments; increase in online activity such as entertainment streaming and retail; beliefs that virtual would overtake demand for in-person activities, etc.) Shopping could be managed through internet retailers and stores. spurred a hiring frenzy.

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How Event Professionals Can Think Like Futurists

Convene by PCMA

He has made a number of his presentations available online at futuristgerd.com. And if we aren’t doing that, then we should be working remotely.”. 2008 rolls around, the Great Recession, and lo and behold, there was a banking crisis. It’s more important to be imaginative and insightful than to be 100-percent right.”. Guess what?

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