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Is the Party Over?

Smart Meetings

It happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2009,” Juliane Farinazzo, co-founder and events director of Bijou Events, remembers as if it were yesterday. I am not keen to restart show-floor happy hours where too many people crowd into the booth,” adds Lisa Grogan, who manages events, meetings and trade shows at Canadian tech company Matrox.

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The New Economic Significance Study: Making Sense of the Numbers

MeetingsNet

The newest study from Oxford Economics on the economic significance of the meetings industry is out, illustrating the size and impact of meetings, conferences, incentive travel programs, and trade shows. First the new numbers…. In the U.S. in 2016, there were: • 1.9 million meetings • 251 million meeting participants.

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5 Meeting Industry Trends That Are Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. ” For these reasons, millennials value networking over almost any other aspect of events. But make no mistake — the networking is there: over 3,000 face-to-face meetings were scheduled at C2 2017 alone.

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5 Ways the Meetings Industry is Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

” For these reasons, millennials value networking over almost any other aspect of events. By creating “journey maps” at a recent conference, the team was able to outline completely different experiences for attendees based on their personas. since 2009, but the total number of attendees at these meetings has grown 22.7%.

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Which meeting design books should I buy?

Conferences that Work

Unlike older books, it covers the impact of digital technology (apps, online meetings, and social media marketing) on the meetings world, includes a healthy dollop of the relevance of learning theory to meeting design, and manages to squeeze in trade shows, accessibility, and wellness in a fairly short book.