Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

That is why Smart Meetings gathered top meeting professionals F2F in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for three days this week at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience Mid-Atlantic to learn about the industry and each other. Attendees tried their hand at community painting projects and supported the local maker community.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2019

There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to convention sponsorship. The good news is that sponsorship spending is forecast to surpass other forms of marketing and advertising in 2019, according to an IEG report. More : How to Use Social Media to Improve Your 2019 Events. Don’t Lead with Email.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The New Year is upon us and as we look at 2022 for our meetings and group gatherings, we gaze into the future with bright eyes and positive grins and think, what the heck is going on? Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The year 2019 is almost upon us. 2019 Event Trends: Your Audience Craves Authenticity. This is no longer going to fly this 2019. Workshops are fast becoming the preferred activity for many conferences and meetings. Attendees want to experience, not just witness, whatever the event is about.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Research Finds Sponsorships Are Still Relevant According to a 2019 report from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research ( CEIR ) of 200 show executives and 728 exhibitors, sponsorships make up roughly 20% of B2B tradeshow revenues. Give attendees a deal on your next event. Record and sponsor your breakout sessions.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Up until 2019, your live event audiovisual Request for Proposal (RFP) was straightforward. In 2020, that theory went out the window and you learned how to write a virtual meeting AV RFP. As you think about the format of your hybrid meeting , you may be overwhelmed with where to start. Planning a Live and Full Virtual Meeting.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

The announcement yesterday that London-based virtual streaming giant Hopin was purchasing the physical event services company Boomset was another step in the direction of an end-to-end hybrid meeting solution. The platform recently announced that it can host up to 50,000 attendees. There is space for quality smaller players as well.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

. American Express Meetings & Events ’ suite of technology solutions for event professionals is now even more robust with the addition of Attendify and Splash as partners. The common thread with the products is that they drive efficiency in the meeting planning process, deliver data and insights, and focus on the attendee experience.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

We had no choice,” says Bob Vaez, founder and CEO of event software platform EventMobi , speaking about the turn to virtual events and meetings during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Run the World was founded in 2019 and was massively adopted early on. The technology adoption was extraordinary.”

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2021

What does it mean to “meet smart” in a post-Covid-19 world? The recipe for a can’t-miss meeting starts with easy access and ample meetings and event space. The meetings and events pros in Las Vegas have been thinking about how to get everyone together safely for the last year, and they have developed some creative answers.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2021

What does it mean to “meet smart” in a post-Covid-19 world? The recipe for a can’t-miss meeting starts with easy access and ample meetings and event space. The meetings and events pros in Las Vegas have been thinking about how to get everyone together safely for the last year, and they have developed some creative answers.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Planning at least three months ahead could save as much as 10 percent on the bottom line, according to a new 2019 Meetings & Events Future Trends study from Carlson Wagonlit Travel Meetings and Events (CWT M&E). Related : MPI Report: Shorter, More Frequent Meetings. Did employee performance improve?

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Endless Events

MARCH 18, 2022

That’s because event platforms collect data about registration, attendee behavior, their feedback about the event, engagement levels, and more valuable insights. Traditionally, event planners measured whether their event goals were achieved through pre-event and post-event surveys , delivered to attendees’ emails.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 28, 2021

Smart Meetings got a sneak peek at the Event Leadership Institute’s (ELI) opening general session of their upcoming Business, Design & Strategy Summit on June 3, The State of the Industry: Where We Are With In-Person Events. For the next 3-6 months, many corporations aren’t holding meetings due to company travel restrictions.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2022

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), a celebration of everything wonderful about the meetings industry, is kicking off its seventh year with the theme “Meet Safe,” a redux of GMID 2021’s theme. While most events across the globe took place virtually last year, more events are now meeting in person. Advocating Voices.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 3, 2024

For the Association of Proposal Management Professionals’ annual meeting, financial success comes from being stingy with space but generous with consultation plus pre-event exposure. We’ll help them refine an idea to create an experience for attendees rather than simply sell them.”

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The post Amex GBT: Internal meetings and AI accelerate industry growth appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. Internal meetings are expected to continue to significantly drive growth within the meetings and events industry in 2024.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2021

“The past 18 months have been a period of tumultuous change, and the current business landscape looks very different to 2019. In fact, just one month after registration went live, hosted buyer demand was higher than at the same point in 2019. Visitor buyers are also markedly more senior (by role) than at the same point in 2019.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are different ways in which you can achieve your event goals and objectives, not to mention each event has a distinct set of attendees and stakeholders. Depending on your event, you might be interested in measuring attendee satisfaction, gross revenue, sponsorship satisfaction, NPS, or session analytics. Two birds with one stone!

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 8, 2022

Attendees wearing masks watch Paula Abdul perform at PCMA Convening Leaders 22 at Caesar’s Forum in Las Vegas. With the latest updates to recommended mask policies from the CDC, are associations with spring meetings still mandating masks onsite? Also, how are your registration numbers? Jacob Slaton Photography).

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Read More : Survey Shows Increased Plans for Face-to-Face Meetings in Australia. The NextGen Events study found that 36 percent of respondents were suffering from virtual event registration fatigue and a loss of customer connection. Read More : New and Renovated: Meetings Venues for Music Lovers; Hybrid-Friendly Outdoor Options.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 6, 2023

Event planners are experiencing sticker shock from rising costs for audiovisual, food and beverage, and other direct meeting expenses. Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent or more lower than 2019.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Since taking effect in May, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has altered data management practices throughout the meetings industry, not just in Europe, according to 2019 Global Meetings and Events Forecast report. Outside of Europe, meetings and events professionals are feeling the pressure, as well.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

After powerful Hurricane Ida swept through New Orleans on August 29, several meeting groups had decisions to make—and quickly—about whether to proceed with their events in the city in the days and weeks that followed. Cancellation, switching locations, and a 36-hour pivot to virtual were among the actions taken by various event hosts.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We still rely on attendees to do the work of finding each other at receptions and hallway breaks. If your primary value proposition is the content — which can be delivered digitally (see number 3) — that is only making it difficult for attendees to justify the time and cost of coming to your event.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 27, 2022

Attendees listen to a session during PCMA EduCon 2022 in early June. Members of PCMA’s Catalyst community discussed the challenges of attracting attendees to their events. I’d like to get feedback from others who have held a meeting this year, or are close to holding one, to see how your events are doing.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 8, 2022

Your next annual meeting, conference, or trade show has the potential to be the most successful event in the history of your organization. The bad news is that your events are not guaranteed to attract the same number of in-person attendees as they did in 2019. Set clear objectives. Then, commit to achieving them as a team.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Connectivity: The Three Attendee Questions – What They Want To Know About Each Other. AV Terms: How To Use Event Gamification and Boost The Energy Of The Attendees. ? Want to know how to further connect your attendees? Check out our webinar on How to Connect Your Attendees through Awesome AV Design! ????

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2021

That would be a 60 percent increase from the same weekend in 2020, but still 6 million fewer than in 2019. million Americans were planning air travel over the three days, according to AAA statistics, six times more than in 2020, but 750,000 fewer than the same time in 2019. Conventioneers Return. We are in the hospitality business.

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Skift Meetings

JUNE 30, 2022

More than 35,000 attendees from 130 countries involved in the global tech ecosystem gathered in Toronto at the Enercare Centre for Collision , a Web Summit event. This year’s ticket count is a significant jump from the 25,711 who attended the last in-person Collision, also in Toronto, in 2019. Not Everything Went to Plan.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 18, 2024

Most of us can’t rely on the lists that helped us exceed our goals in 2019. Nothing is going to turn off prospective attendees more than a constant bombardment of promotional emails “screaming” at them to REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE. This approach, however, has become increasingly shortsighted. Here’s why: 1.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

To illustrate the sheer size and potential growth of India’s overall outbound market, prior to the pandemic in 2019, Indians made 26.9 Putting that into perspective, prior to Covid, in 2019, it was worth just $150 billion, an increase of 173%.” According to the DET, India is Dubai’s top source market, with 1.9 million visitors by 2030.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

On-demand viewing for registrants was available for 30 days. The Amplify Local program, last held in person, launched in 2019, was a series of half-day programs in 20 different cities to keep users connected. The pre-recorded sessions have been 60 minutes long with 30-minute breaks, and air at different times for different regions.

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Meet Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) held its 103rd Annual Meeting at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado from January 8th to 12th, 2023. The recommendations were in accordance with the organization’s Green Meetings Initiative guidelines, established by the Committee on Environmental Stewardship.

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

PCMA research uncovered similar findings: One of two event planners planned hybrid events so attendees could attend according to their preferences. After several years of avoiding in-person events or only attending virtual events, attendees are ready for the evolution of events. Attendee satisfaction. Attendee engagement.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 27, 2022

In-person meetings include high-value networking options, but planners should consider a digital post-event experience to add even more value. The half pursuing hybrid knows that they can’t just go back to what worked in 2019 despite the return of in-person events. To entice live event attendees.

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