Endless Events

JULY 18, 2020

The Best of the Best: Hybrid Events: 10 Questions About Hybrid Events, Answered. Event Tech: Event Tech Podcast: A Klik Review. ? We are known for our yearly event trends guide, but this year we stepped it up a notch and created a 2020 Virtual Event Trends Webinar! Do I stay or do I go?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 9, 2023

Curbing pollutants has become part of the meeting professional job description, but how does one to do so at in-person and virtual events in a meaningful and cost-effective way? Partnering with event technology and destination experts can help cut through the green myths by taking an action-oriented, big-picture approach.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“We live in a hybrid world where almost every major event has a virtual component, even if we don’t call it that,” said Bizzabo Chief Marketing Officer Alon Alroy. Yes, hybrid meetings are more complicated and costly, but virtual is here to stay without a doubt,” he said. There are many reasons for the residual digital.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We’ve said time and time again that the events industry is changed forever. The pandemic normalized virtual events and accelerated the adoption of various event tech solutions. Some might even say that the event tech evolved more since March 2020 than in the entire decade before that!

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 3, 2023

Freeman strengthens its corporate presence with an agency pick-up; EventMobi buys a virtual-events platform to boost its hybrid-meeting abilities; and Hopin sells its core products to a videoconferencing competitor. We’re thrilled to welcome Run the World and immerse them in the full value of hybrid events.”

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

With online events, they’ve cut that time down to a few minutes, and no one understands this better than today’s #EventIcons guest, Arianna Black. Arianna has a long-standing relationship with events. Recently, that relationship has grown to focus on meaningful connections in virtual events.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 25, 2022

As a result of being the first city in the nation to host in-person events in July 2020, with significant upgrades to the Indiana Convention Center, the meetings and events industry in Indianapolis has been thriving and surpassing numbers posted in 2019. The event will take place at the Henry B. The George R.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Up until 2019, your live event audiovisual Request for Proposal (RFP) was straightforward. There wasn’t a need to include a virtual platform ; unless it was a rare occasion with a one-off request to include a broadcast element. In 2020, that theory went out the window and you learned how to write a virtual meeting AV RFP.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 9, 2022

Aside from the benefits of face-to-face interactions and the resultant rapport firms can build with their audiences, in-person formats provide fantastic data collection opportunities and insights to aid continued improvement of a firm’s event offering. Desire to Connect.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In fact, the industry’s audience is expected to surpass even 2019 levels in the coming years. 33% of respondents report seeing 40% more revenue generated from in-person meetings and events versus virtual events. Of that 80% group, 30% agree spending would again rise by over 25%. billion by 2030.”

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2022

7-9 in the country, following two months of virtual events, cancelled when logistics couldn’t be overcome. The 44th edition of IAA World Congress was held February 2019 in Kochi, India, long before the public knew the word “Covid.”. Other Asian countries, such as Singapore, have had relatively minimal levels of regulation.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 7, 2022

She adds, however: “Among those who are uncertain if they will travel for conferences/conventions/trade shows, 1 in 3 cite availability of virtual events as a reason for the uncertainty. And 1 in 5 cite the fact that these events are not occurring at all due to the pandemic.”. (These results are on par with our Q1 survey.)”.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our wish for 2022 is that all virtual events incorporate a little more “wow.” Every year, Smart Meeting profiles top event professionals as part of an annual Planner of the Year feature designed to recognize and inspire innovation and excellence. Meet the 2019 Planners of the Year. Cheers to Planners of the Year.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But with news of the Omicron variant changing day-to-day, conference organizers and sponsors are using the skills they’ve acquired in Covid times: flexibility and leveraging virtual options to replace some face-to-face experiences. This is a tech conference, after all—participants know how to manage virtual events.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

There’s a sense out there that virtual and augmented reality are just fading fads, but what you’re seeing is actually just the first phase of adoption—call it the “Novelty Phase.” Rising: Multi-point virtual events. One version that most planners are familiar with is the “festivalization” of events.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After two years of not meeting, companies and audiences may have different goals and expectations so conferences that were previously produced as simple iterations on the previous years’ event must now be reinvented whole cloth. Her trick when using numbers: Use data to tell a story.

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Endless Events

MAY 6, 2021

I come from a live events background. It’s my goal working for on EXFO as a virtual events platform to do everything it can do in order to make both virtual events and in-person events as good as they can be now. Maybe I would come off and say that I don’t care about in-person events.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 16, 2022

Fireplay , an event production company based in Nashville, is opening a Los Angeles office and has selected Sims to lead the branch. Sims has spent over 20 years in the events industry, most recently the owner and event designer for Carrie Sims Events Design, a company she started in 2019.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The average attendance in the last 90 days, Lippman said, is about half of what it was in 2019. The average time spent at virtual events in April was 5.6 The pre-COVID average NPS — net promoter score index measuring the willingness of exhibitors to recommend an event to others — was +19.

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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. 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.

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DCI

JUNE 2, 2022

In 2022 meeting revenue is looking to be just 8% short of 2019’s levels, while in 2021 it was 45% below 2019 levels across the globe. As more events take place and bookings advance, the global pace of the events industry recovery is ticking up, albeit differently from region to region. Virtual Access On the Decline.

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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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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 17, 2023

based company launched in 2017 offers a virtual-event booking platform focused on team building and corporate experiences. 1,130: Balloon Therapy Launched in 2019, this Dallas-based balloon-garland fabricator and installer specializes in designs for large and small events. Three-Year Growth: 6,545% No.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 1, 2022

Former Aramark executive Cathy Schlosberg was named senior vice president of marketing in June of 2019 and former Enterprise Holdings Assistant Vice President of Global Travel and Meetings, Amanda Armstrong, took the role of senior vice president of brand and community engagement at Encore in January of 2022.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Though fungi grow all around us, the function and uses of fungi were mysterious to most people outside of the scientific community until the documentary “Fantastic Fungi” was released in 2019. Mush Rooms’. and Eugenia Bone, a chef and food writer who was featured in the “Fantastic Fungi” documentary.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

Sixty-four percent of marketing leaders say they’re only moderately or not at all effective at executing virtual events that deliver value to the organization. While three out of five marketing leaders say restarting in-person/hybrid events is very important, one out of five say virtual events continue to deliver tremendous reach.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 19, 2023

New Audiences, New Preferences Freeman’s Q1 2023 Trend Report revealed there’s been a paradigm shift since 2019: In a span of only 18 months, the average age of B2B event goers dropped from 51 to 45. Holsinger puts this in clear perspective: “We have never seen a shift this dramatic in all of the years of tracking these benchmarks.”

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Best Corporate Events

JULY 1, 2020

When the Going got tough…We got Virtual. We were in our groove, delivering nearly 1,000 events in 2019, all across America, while maintaining our #1 ranked Customer TrustScore of 4.9/5.0. Then, the Live Events Industry collapsed and vanished in an instant. Their answer was Virtual.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

For example, Palais des congrès de Montréal launched the CITE Event Innovation and Technology Centre in partnership with MT Lab—North America’s first innovation incubator devoted to tourism, culture and entertainment—to merge live and virtual event experiences. Environmentally focused.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 23, 2023

Beth Surmont, CMP, FASAE, CAE 2022 was the year of proving the value of in-person events, and 2023 is the year of really digging in and understanding what hybrid can and should be. I didn’t have a hybrid strategy in 2019, so why do I need one now? Pre-2020, virtual events existed but they did not have the scale they do today.

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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. At that point, IASA canceled the in-person conference.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It’s time to talk about engagement at virtual events yet again. So on this week’s Event Tech Podcast, we’re happy to welcome William Warren. He’s the founder and CEO of The Sketch Effect , an exciting technology that contributes to improving engagement at virtual events in novel ways.

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Stova

JUNE 15, 2021

billion in 2019. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is becoming more important than ever, particularly as modern cloud computing technology enables more powerful, flexible, scalable AI tools. The market is forecasted to grow to nearly $267 billion by 2027 – up from $27.23

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Tembusu Events and Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2021

MICE events refers to business oriented events such as meetings, conferences and exhibitions arranged or held in the course of business with more than 50 participants which are not held for individual consumers to attend. MICE events with 50 participants or less do not require MTI’s approval. Event itinerary.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

Through a partnership formalized in late 2019 with Haymarket Medical Education, the mission was to sharpen member-data analysis and then leverage opportunities for additional content creation, speaker and presenter acquisition, and learner recruitment. What is the status of that event right now? Knight: Yes.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 27, 2022

I’m on the vendor side, providing in-person audiovisual and virtual-event technology needs primarily to associations and am happy to share what my clients have been seeing as we come back to in-person events. Any other insight or guidance would be greatly appreciated to share with my senior management team.”.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Prior to establishing the three day Swiss Sustainability Forum, NZZ Connect started with a precursor event called Circular Economy Entrepreneurs in 2019 in Langenthal, a city in Canton Bern. Afterwards, it moved the second edition to Interlaken in 2020, and in 2021, it moved the event to Bern. About the event.

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