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New Report: IMEX 2022 Reached Net Zero Carbon Events Goals

Smart Meetings

Working with the United Kingdom-based sustainability consultant isla , a total of 92% of event waste was recovered by diverting it into recycling, composting or donation channels, meeting the threshold for a zero-waste event. Since 2012, the conference has been tracking diversion, recycling and reuse and has averaged an 86% diversion rate.

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Here Are The 22 Best Event Platforms To Use In 2022!

Endless Events

One final disclaimer before we dive in: this is not sponsored content ; no event platform paid to be featured on this list. The Conference variation allows for concurrent tracks, reception area, and exhibitor booths. Attendees can personalize their agenda, meet in the app with video meetings, and even save the video files for review.

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California: Meet Where Sustainable Innovation Lives

Smart Meetings

Some 30 miles away, meeting professionals at the ubiquitous customer relationship software company Salesforce have taken a net-zero pledge and are brainstorming ways to keep business moving forward while prioritizing sustainability as a core value in everything from partnerships to customer data tracking and at its annual Dreamforce citywide event.

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21 Creative Ideas for Corporate Stage Design

Endless Events

Is it time you discovered a new approach for that annual conference or general session? IBM Impact Conference. With some 18,000 people attending the IBM Impact Conference, every aspect of the event must engage huge amounts of people. Organizers assigned each conference topic a color. Sony E3 2012 Press Conference.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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Leaving Your Event’s Host City Better Because You Were There

Convene by PCMA

A number of Velvet Chainsaw’s consulting clients have made social responsibility a cornerstone of their conference strategy — with the desire “to leave the host city better because we were there.” When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome.

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Who owns your event?

Conferences that Work

The usual answer to this question is “the event’s sponsors”, i.e. the people and organizations that decide to hold the event and contribute the resources needed for the event to occur. Conferences that leverage all the expertise in the room, rather than the contributions of a few experts. Who owns an event?