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Event Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2022

Convene by PCMA

What will the road ahead be like for the events industry? The Convene editors look back on an ever-changing 2021 and ask the question: What event trend is on my radar for 2022? I hope it’s a sign that we’ll see more digital events use creative ways to tell stories — and break out of the webinar mold — in the future.

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Asia Is Opening Up to International Events—Slowly

Smart Meetings

PCMA Convening Leaders 2022, scheduled to take place Sept. 7-9 in the country, following two months of virtual events, cancelled when logistics couldn’t be overcome. In January of 2022, the signature event was held at CAESARS FORUM in Las Vegas. But challenges remain.

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CES Leans into Hybrid Meeting Format in Uncertain Times

Smart Meetings

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. Safe Travels.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

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. Choices, Choices. His advice: “Give the whole picture rather than bringing decisions to a manager piecemeal.

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Pain Point Number 1: Rising Costs

MeetingsNet

The latest meeting planner survey from Global Event Planners, the network of independent destination management companies, found that higher costs was a top challenge for 70 percent of the 200 planners surveyed. Contracts: The survey asked planners about their number-one concern when negotiating a contract.

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Maritz Is Reinventing What’s Next in Seattle

Smart Meetings

When Maritz Global Events decided it was finally time to get back to face-to-face, the experience-design company brought 500 people who represented the entire meetings ecosystem to Seattle—clients, employees, team members and partners—and focused on talking openly and solving shared challenges.

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Case study: SAP Sapphire 2022 (10 locations)

The MICE Blog

There were so many excellent entries that it was hard to pick just one, but eventually we decided on SAP Sapphire 2022 in the Best Transformational Change category, and Siemens Energy Business Conference 2022 in Best Customer Experience – Live. Event: SAP Sapphire Author: Tim Porterfield – SAP Global Events.

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