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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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2021

The most recent stop on the Great Meetings Restart tour was Smart Meetings National West, which hit the beach at Hotel del Coronado this week for three days of business, connecting and community. The gathering of meeting professionals was a testament to the resiliency of the industry. Harold Rapoza, Jr., Lessons Learned.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 30, 2021

Top meeting professionals and dignitaries met this week at Lansdowne Resort and Spa in Loudoun County, Virginia, to celebrate the return to business at Smart Meetings’ first face-to-face event of 2021, Mid-Atlantic Experience. In 2019 alone, meetings brought in $17 million in revenue to the area. of meeting space.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 29, 2022

Event organizers, according to Annette Suriani, CMP, CFMP, DES, principal and chief meeting strategist at AMS Meetings Solutions and executive director of the Association of Meeting Professionals (AMPs), should also be doing their part to help suppliers work more efficiently to help save their own budgets. John Rissi.

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Endless Events

JUNE 8, 2018

Business and event planners around the globe are raving about this year’s C2 Montreal conference. There were over 6,000 participants that attended the C2 Montreal event this year and although the 2018 event was at the end of May, the groundbreaking is already planning for the 2019 conference with the theme of tomorrow.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It’s not even Halloween yet, but it’s never too early to plan ahead for next year’s ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Columbus, Ohio. Smart Meetings recently went on a FAM trip hosted by Experience Columbus to scope out the area and make your site selection job that much easier. Columbus Skyline photo by Andy Spessard.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But that is just one of the reasons why meeting professionals will be flocking to Columbus in January. Smart Meetings sat down with PCMA CEO and President Sherrif Karamat for insights about what to expect at the opening reception on Jan. His advice is to prepare in advance to meet with people you want to do business with.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Discover blockchain events and conferences happening throughout the world in 2023. Today there are a plethora of blockchain conferences, blockchain networking events, and more happening worldwide every year. Nordic Blockchain Conference. 100% focus on facilitating high quality, one-on-one meetings. Start Date /.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

Even the biggest conferences are always looking for ways to improve. Generally, we offer 10 tracks, but we are narrowing that down with lots of exciting speakers and topics to help give people more clarity,” she said. The post Lessons from IMEX Frankfurt to Look for at IMEX America appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Skift Meetings

JUNE 30, 2022

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. The Collision 2019 app developed served as a ticket, networking interface, and schedule for on-site attendees.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 27, 2022

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). In 2019 the ITB MICE Forum theme was ‘The Human Factor’. It was established based on the theory of meeting design, a well-known ‘tool kit’ used by planners worldwide.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 31, 2023

The post Travel Meet Asia 2023 to connect Malaysia and Southeast Asia Buyers with Global Suppliers appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Travel Meet Asia (TMA) 2023 is taking place on 7-8 June 2023, targeting Malaysia as its major focus. The event in Kuala Lumpur will be held live for the first time since 2019.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You can’t make a list of meetings industry thought leaders without including Michael Dominguez, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International. And when you think about in-demand educators, Dominguez is at the top of that list, too, with his data-driven sessions detailing the meeting and incentive-travel landscape.

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

Lori has been working with Meeting Professionals International for over five years now. What we found is that it really does us no good to source the speakers more than six months out because something will come up then they’re not able to do it. I would say it takes about two hours per speaker that you have.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Conference organiser, NZZ Connect, is a branch of the leading Swiss publication Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). NZZ Connect organises national conferences such as the Swiss Economic Forum focusing on business topics and brings communities together that are passionate about a given subject. Circular Economy Entrepreneurs 2021.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Even for planners at the top of their game, the current meeting climate has created new levels of stress—the result of severe hotel booking compression, high turnover in supplier staff, and short meeting lead times. Post pandemic, a lot of faces have changed; a lot of meetings have changed. We have new internal stakeholders.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 20, 2024

According to research by Oxford Economics, outbound travel from China is estimated to almost double this year, compared with 2023 and will only be 22% below its peak pre-pandemic numbers of 155 million tourists in 2019, who spent over $250 billion overseas.

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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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Bizzaboo

MARCH 30, 2018

One of the best ways to network and learn about the latest trends in education is to attend an educational conference. Conferences - Conferences are large events that bring together education professionals in the field. Activities at these events include speakers, workshops, and networking sessions. April Conferences.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Association for Women in Events (AWE)’s leadership team for 2019 is making membership more accessible for all event professionals in a move to include more planners of all genders and ages in a proactive community focused on equality. Premium membership adds coaching, access to a new job board and inclusion in the speaker directory.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

ITB China conference kicks off with high- level speakers from the industry  More than 70 speakers representing prominent travel organizations and influential figures in the Chinese market are poised for another stellar line-up of keynotes and panel discussions covering 30 cutting-edge topics at the ITB China Conference.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 9, 2019

The Future Meeting Space project, which was funded by Professional Convention Management Association, surveyed planners about strategies for a successful event, and the top answers were: knowledge transfer, disruptive elements and customized content for different personas. — Allie Miller #PCMACL (@alliekmiller) January 8, 2019.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 27, 2023

Organised by Hotelbeds, the event combines a conference and trade show at the nhow Amsterdam RAI. We’re thrilled that the MarketHub is back for the first time since 2019 and in this vibrant city of Amsterdam, where we have been so warmly welcomed,” said Carlos Muñoz Capllonch, Chief Commercial Officer at Hotelbeds.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2018

IMEX America’s biggest gathering ever propelled full-speed ahead on Day Three in Las Vegas, fueled by meeting planner and supplier energy and the usual steady supply of news and demos by properties and destinations. Smart Meetings kept pace with the biggest happenings. 10–12, 2019. Upcoming WEC Locations. 15–17, 2020.

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Endless Events

MARCH 12, 2019

They strive to change the way we meet and it’s working! It’s safe to say the World Education Congress breaks the traditional conference mold and will push the rest of the industry forward. Meetings Mean Business- Global Meetings Industry Day. World Education Congress 2019. Let’s jump in! Live Mindful Lee.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

com; Eleni Skarveli, director of Visit Greece, UK and Ireland; Wouter Geerts, research director of Skift; Deepak Ohri, CEO of Lebua Hotels and Resorts; and Jelka Tepsic, deputy mayor of Dubrovnik; Eduardo Santander, CEO of the European Travel Commission; among many others, will participate in this new edition of the conference.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 16, 2022

It will be the first in-person gathering of the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) destinations since 2019. Speakers will focus on tourism recovery, digital transformation, supply chain localisation, social enterprise business models, and best practices for a resilient travel sector rebound, especially using latest technologies.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 23, 2019

The post Bold thoughts, bold moves: ITB Asia unveils latest conference theme appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Travel trade show ITB Asia, is set to deliver another year of thought-provoking and inspiring content to industry practitioners as part of its conference programme.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ? I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The two-part CEMA webinar series, “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After,” reviewed what worked and what didn’t at Workiva’s Amplify virtual events. In that same spirit, I tuned in to the two-part CEMA webinar series , “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After.”

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 17, 2023

At least 11 meeting and event-related companies are featured in this year’s Inc. companies based on revenue growth, is led by a healthcare management company, but a close second is a group-transportation platform that meeting and event planners may want to know about if they don’t already: CharterUp. 5000, an Inc.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 16, 2022

It will be the first in-person gathering of the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) destinations since 2019. Speakers will focus on tourism recovery, digital transformation, supply chain localisation, social enterprise business models, and best practices for a resilient travel sector rebound, especially using latest technologies.

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 21, 2024

The dual language conference, moderated by Richard Hammond, director of Green Traveller productions and sustainable travel writer, included speakers from across Spain and the UK’s travel and transportation industries with panel sessions on circular economy, biodiversity and accessibility. of the global economy and 12.2% of all jobs.

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Travel Daily Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Misk Global Forum (MGF) will return on 9-10 November with a hybrid format, hosting people in-person for the first time since 2019, with an array of world-renowned speakers set to take the stage and explore ways we can bridge generations to inspire positive, sustainable social change. Eight Unique Activations.

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The MICE Blog

MAY 2, 2022

Likewise, corporate clients place higher value on networking: ‘With the corporate clients I am finding that they are very keen to get back to meeting and networking in person and that networking has become much more important.’. You could definitely see that people had not been out for a long time.’ Does your contract have flexibility?

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Endless Events

JANUARY 2, 2019

C2 Montréal – The annual international business conference that helps established and aspiring leaders unlock their creativity in order to better face disruption and change. Engagement Unlimited – Creates positive transformational change through active engagement at meetings and events.

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