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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Aaron Wolowiec, CMP Fellow

Smart Meetings

Becoming a CMP Wolowiec, founder and president of consulting firm Event Garde , earned his CMP in 2009. He still refers back to his training and texts every so often to stay up to date with industry knowledge, best practices and current trends.

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The Top 7 Event Industry Trends for 2024 

Bizzaboo

When he thinks about DE&I trends that will play a significant role in changing the industry in 2024 and beyond, four key points come to DeShield’s mind: Maintain a commitment to DE&I. Embracing Generative AI and Modern Event Tech Over the years, many tech trends have come and gone.

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

Conferences that Work

Given recent turbulent social media trends, I’m glad I took the plunge. Having been on Twitter (yes, I know it’s been renamed “X”, sue me) since 2009, I’d describe Mastodon as the old Twitter. What Twitter was back then When I joined Twitter in June 2009, the platform was just about to take off.

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3 Trends for the Future: Zero-proof Lifestyles, Supercircular Design, and Rewirement

Convene by PCMA

(Courtesy of Kin Euphorics) “The Future 100: 2023 ,” creative agency, consultancy, and technology company Wunderman Thompson’s annual forecast, identifies 100 trends across industries — from culture to technology to travel and hospitality — that will shape the way we live and work this year and beyond. in 2009 to 3.6 Jennifer N.

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Michelin-starred Dining in…Orlando?

Smart Meetings

The last guide covered 2008-2009. Las Vegas, which strives to go bigger than anywhere else—and is in continual competition with Orlando for meetings and events business—used to have its restaurants rated by Michelin. And with so many celebrity-chef outposts, deservedly so. Yet apparently that guide sold so poorly it was discontinued.

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What is Event-Led Growth?

Endless Events

My journey started pre-HubSpot when I was a Hu bSpot customer in 2008 or 2009. I pay for most of these, and I’m pretty religious in reading all of them; I try to stay on top of all these new ideas, current trends, and things going on in the world. Here’s what he had to say. . “My

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Knowland expands further in the Middle East, opens Riyadh Market

Travel Daily Media

Not new to the market, Knowland has been collecting MICE data in the UAE since 2009, establishing a mission-critical threshold of regional insight, and is replicating those efforts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), starting with the Riyadh market.

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