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. Raise your registration fee. Provide an all-inclusive online shopping cart experience.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Up until 2019, your live event audiovisual Request for Proposal (RFP) was straightforward. We have many planner friends who say the toughest challenge is planning two meetings in one. It’s how one team planned in 2019 for live and how one team planned in 2020 for virtual. You can double the registration income.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

That included a gifting experience at registration that allowed all attendees to choose their own swag from a shopping lounge, feathered friends both evenings and a light show that highlighted the fun of the destination care of Go Drone Shows. Don’t forget to pamper the planner. James left the audience with one more piece of advice.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If planners choose to evolve their event strategies the old way, they often struggle to allocate their budgets to cover all the new ground that’s been established since the virtual revolution. Among the most popular in the events industry are corporate budgets, attendee registration fees, partner sponsorships, and/or donations.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 28, 2021

It’s unlikely to meet 2019 numbers, partly because international travel is taking longer to return, and also because 2019 was a record year for many event industry businesses. What the Pick-Up Is : Convention customers are saying that both exhibit sales and domestic attendee registration is pacing better than anticipated.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus. Can my IT folks prevent a hack or act in case a virus invades your onsite registration system? It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Since its founding in 2010, EventMobi has expanded its reach to over 30,000 corporate and non-profit event planners. Its full suite of event management tools includes event registration and check-in, advanced analytics, mobile event apps, customizable branding and design, engagement and networking tools and more.

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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. Whatever Media Group) According to a study by the World Scholarship Vault , event planner stress levels are hitting a new high — the third-most stressful job in the world for 2023.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Event professionals engaging AMEX M&E will have access to venue sourcing from Cvent and Lanyon, online registration from Cvent and Splash, and mobile app software from DoubleDutch, Attendify, GoEngage and EventsMobileApp—plus experts who can help choose the right solutions and integrate the flow of information.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

Meanwhile, the 800-pound gorilla in the streaming meeting space, Zoom, announced this month that it is launching Zoom events, an all-in-one platform that will include a “build your own event hub,” ticketing and registration and a management dashboard for multi-day and multi-track conferences. Not all will survive,” he warned.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

There are a lot of things event planners need to be ready for. Here are challenges and opportunities event planners can expect in the next decade. Event Planner Challenges. Data protection is always on event planners’ minds. Milan Klöwer (@milankloewer) November 5, 2019. Event Planner Opportunities.

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Endless Events

APRIL 26, 2021

Hopin , the 2019 London-based start-up, is considered a unicorn among event apps. Yet the biggest events in the world didn’t use it for the registration. A lot of times when we’re sitting here thinking that the events industry is getting a lot of attention, it never trickles down to production companies or planners.”

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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. The sooner companies and planners adjust, the better. What to Do.

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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). The first is that rates are increasing.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 8, 2022

The bad news is that your events are not guaranteed to attract the same number of in-person attendees as they did in 2019. Event planners should involve the programming, marketing, sales, and tech teams throughout the planning process. Introduce offers and incentives that encourage early registration (not just early-bird discounts).

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In our February Recovery Dashboard survey, 37 percent of planner respondents said they will not be requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination at their events, while 61 percent said they would. But nearly one-third of planners, up a few points from December, report feeling exhausted and burned out. Jacob Slaton Photography).

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 27, 2023

But even though we recognize how networking has taken priority, we largely have not changed our approach as planners. Changing Things up — The model for events has largely not changed in 100 years and chances are, the event you are running today looks very similar to how it did in 2019. Even more, our audiences are changing.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 27, 2022

Several of my other association clients are seeing registration taking huge leaps in the final 10 days leading up to the event, so keeping your registration open longer may make sense for you. I am a meeting planner in Sydney, Australia, and we have delivered three association conferences in the past eight weeks.

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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. And this is where things got dicey.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Then, I joined a small catering company, just as they were scaling up, and went into vending management as the primary caterer and event planner. In 2019, we had an event app,” she says. “A In 2019, Arianna found that attendees will ask questions everywhere. “I went from there to working in private events,” she continues.

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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.

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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. Digital price — This varies, especially when it comes to CE.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 22, 2019

And now for the main topic in the episode below, #EventIcons 2019 Sneak Peak! There is so much information and data held on event websites and registration platforms such as credit cards, flight info, home addresses and more, it is a jackpot of information for hackers. (We’ll remind you of upcoming episodes.) This is all for you!

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 6, 2018

A recent survey at IBTM World finds planners expecting wider adoption in 2019, while a facial-recognition product won the show's emerging-technology award. Here are a few of the findings: • Sixty-nine percent said they will spend more on technology in 2019 than in 2018.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 18, 2023

72% of meeting planners expect lead times in 2024 to be the same or shorter. Technology is Bridging the Gap Technology is expected to make major changes in the way meeting professionals do their jobs, including destination research, event communication, and registration automation.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

The sudden cancellation of in-person events and a massive swing to virtual ones left event planners scrambling,” the report says. A hybrid event is double the cost, double the resources, because you’re essentially doing what you did in 2019 and adding a virtual presence like you did in 2020,” Sahney said. “At for hybrid events.”.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To ease the rush of registration, attendees were urged to print badges at home and grab a lanyard in the hall. NYC & Company reported at IMEX that the destination expects to recover 85% of its record 2019 visitation, welcoming 56.7 For the love of lanyards. thatwaseasy #IMEXcited @IMEX_Group pic.twitter.com/S1rHxJroIP. —

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Examples include wearable tech capable of capturing real-time data that promises to revolutionize how organizers gather insights into attendee behavior, software solutions that automate various aspects of event planning and thus increase planner efficiency, and a service that offers web-based augmented reality activations.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Endless Events got together with MPI at IMEX America 2019. So, first things first, what should planners keep in mind when it comes to kicking things off? “We aren’t expecting any planner to be able to do everything safety and security related on their own”, she says.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Instead of advertising its own products, Amazon is using the naming rights it secured for the stadium to honor a pledge it made in 2019 to reach net-zero carbon emissions as a company by 2040. When it comes to food and beverage, the earlier that planners have a conversation about sustainability, Bradley said, the better.

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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. To illustrate, here’s a list of some of the most popular event KPIs from a demand generation funnel perspective: Registrations. Here are a few examples: Registrations from target accounts.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 6, 2022

From information collected at their in-person events through their registration systems to their mobile apps, from social-media tools to web analytics, and from RFID badges to chatbots, there were abundant opportunities for event organizers to analyze how attendees experienced their events. Joe Colangelo.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Hed: ‘Our 2019 Meeting — It’s Like Ancient History’. I think we would instead still do smaller events throughout the year, but we would not tie it to meeting registration. Honestly, our 2019 meeting — to me it’s like ancient history. EPNAC Photography and Video). PCMA Visionary Award Winner Ready to Reinvent Conference Again.

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Stova

MARCH 7, 2023

To this end, savvy planners are being more intentional with event design. Facial recognition self-check-in powers speedy, contactless onsite registration. Adding to the challenges, 75 percent of planners say they have shorter lead times than in 2019. They can talk via live video conferencing and arrange to meet onsite.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

From Las Vegas to the world, we’re happy to introduce to you IMEX America 2019! One of the best parts of IMEX America 2019 was the introduction of exciting new opportunities in the world of event tech. So that’s exactly why this week’s episode is all about the amazing new technology coming from IMEX America 2019.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Morial Convention Center over the near term is Smart Energy Week, a co-location of the Solar Power International show, the Energy Storage International show, and Wind Energy International show that in 2019 drew more than 30,000 total attendees. In the Eye of the Storm.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To ease the rush of registration, attendees were urged to print badges at home and grab a lanyard in the hall. NYC & Company reported at IMEX that the destination expects to recover 85% of its record 2019 visitation, welcoming 56.7 For the love of lanyards. thatwaseasy #IMEXcited @IMEX_Group pic.twitter.com/S1rHxJroIP.

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