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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

You had an event management agency during the 2008 crisis and lost 50% of your business in one week. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009.

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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. Julius Solaris ‘LinkedIn Changed My Life’ Julius Solaris, founder of consulting firm Boldpush, started a group for event professionals on LinkedIn in 2008, when the platform was only five years old.

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10 Takeaways from the 10th edition of Winning Strategies

DCI

We were in the midst of a global pandemic, companies were dipping their toes into the world of remote work and the presidential campaign caused tension throughout the already unsettled nation.

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Business Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NFL History

Best Corporate Events

Roy Charette, a leader in the fields of team building and professional development training, and managing partner at Best Corporate Events, cites the example of the 2008 NBA champion Boston Celtics. “In When they all came to the Celtics in 2008 and won the championship, every one of them had lower average points per game.

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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. What does going virtual mean for important sponsorship revenue? Would people even show up?

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But the Event Industry Bloodbath is Coming

PlannerWire

I am also lucky to be working with my peeps at i3 Events , with “ Remote, Reliable, Responsible ” a meeting planning consortium, with Tess on The EventTech Pull Up , and also with the team at Dahlia+ …. This is not 2008. The days are super-busy and they are full of actual work. Others can’t do what many of us can.

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