Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The events industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace and the best way to keep current is to look ahead and anticipate the trends coming for this year. AI — Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a passing trend — it has become an indispensable tool. Here is what we’re keeping a close eye on in these coming months.

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Stova

MARCH 25, 2024

The Definitive Guide to Event Registration This guide will teach you how to create a successful event registration strategy and help you deliver the best registration experience for your attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors. Registration is at the heart of meetings and events.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Questions you need to ask to build a strategic meeting operation [pull quote] “2024 is the year of doing more events that matter, more experience-driven events that drive more engagement and connections.” Q: How can the right mix set events up for success going into 2024? Is Your Event Tech Stack Optimized for Results? The result?

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 6, 2024

The post THAIFEX – HOREC Asia 2024 opens, targeting the HoReCa industry appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. ” “Based on business registration data, we have 11,540 hotel and resort operators, 21,695 restaurant businesses, and 606 catering services, numbers that continue to rise.

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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 2, 2023

The post Registrations for Further East 2023 close on 14 August 2023 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Miami and We Are Africa, has announced that the closing date for registrations to attend Further East 2023 is on Monday 14 August 2023. Registrations will close on Monday 14 August 2023.

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Bizzaboo

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Welcome to the 2024 event technology guide! Building websites, increasing event registrations, and promoting email are all possible thanks to event technology. As the pandemic slowly starts appearing in the rear-view mirror, it seems all but certain that this trend will continue as we move further into the future. Think again!

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ADMEI

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Helping Hospitality Students Transition from Campus to Career 20 February 2024 Heading into a career right after college can be a daunting task for many graduates, especially transitioning from academic classes to the professional world. Recipients have an opportunity to network with leading DMCs from around the globe during the 2.5-day

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Traveler's Q

MARCH 7, 2024

This blog will provide you with unique and impactful networking event trends that are taking the corporate world by storm. The Latest Trends for Events in 2024 Gamification Gamification is undoubtedly going to be one of the most significant trends in corporate events in 2024. Let’s dive in!

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Explore dozens of must-attend higher education and general education events in 2024, including conferences for higher education, education administration, education management, and education tech. Education conferences in 2024 will take a new approach with these major shifts in mind. 2024 Ann Ferren Conference 1/11/24 Hybrid Jan.11

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 11, 2024

The more than 4,200 people who attended PCMA’s 2024 Convening Leaders in San Diego this week and another 700 who registered to stream the education sessions were encouraged to “Think Bigger.”

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 16, 2024

There’s encouraging news in the Freeman Trends Report: 2024 Attendee Intent and Behavior , released Tuesday, Jan. When Holsinger previewed the report during the session, “First Look: Exclusive Data on Attendee Motivators,” at PCMA Convening Leaders 2024 on Jan. PCMA Convening Leaders 2024 registrants can watch the Jan.

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ADMEI

MARCH 13, 2024

Designing Events with Empathy 13 March 2024 In the world of event planning, there's a growing awareness of the importance of empathy in crafting unforgettable experiences for attendees. For example: is the registration or check-in line too long and slow-moving?

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Stova

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This article explores the latest networking technology and trends that are transforming how professionals engage and connect. You’ll also get five proven best practices to help attendees build meaningful connections in 2024 and beyond. Start by creating an online community exclusively for conference registrants.

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InEvent

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Event technology is witnessing an unprecedented transformation in 2024, with innovations reshaping how we conceive and execute events. … Post Top 10 Event Check-In Software Solutions in 2024 showed as first in InEvent Blog. … Post Top 10 Event Check-In Software Solutions in 2024 showed as first in InEvent Blog.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A participant of the executive leadership summit at Convening Leaders 2024 answers questions for a group exercise. Personalization isn’t just confined to marketing or operations — it should be both, Hardcastle-Geddes said, and should include education, registration, and all the other touchpoints along your participants’ journey.

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Travel Daily Media

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The conference also featured engaging roundtable discussions that fostered dynamic exchanges of ideas providing attendees with key take-home messages on the latest trends and strategies in the industry, emphasizing innovation, customer engagement, and future-forward thinking.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 8, 2024

This is in sharp contrast to “Well ambition,” a trend highlighted in the recently published “The Future 100: 2024” report from VML Intelligence, the futurism, research, and innovation unit of global creative agency VML. The hardest roles are the coordinator-like positions, like registration managers, and entry-level roles.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It has become increasingly clear that — as several speakers at Convening Leaders 2024 in January in San Diego pointed out — we likely won’t lose our jobs to AI but to workers proficient in using AI. I was therefore excited to participate in the Convening Leaders competition pitting humans against humans using gen AI.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Supported by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), The Meetings Show Asia Pacific 2024 promises to be a game-changer for meetings and events planners in the region, with its MICE market poised to grow from USD412.18 The post The countdown begins for “The Meetings Show Asia Pacific’s” debut appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 5, 2022

To zero in on what we can expect — from event technology predictions to what the biggest challenges will be — we reached out to some of the top Event Experience Leaders for their take on event industry trends to come. Want to skip straight to the insights and event industry trends from our top leaders? Maybe in 2024? Adam Parry.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

Looking for an event or experiential marketing agency in 2024? All Terrain Chicago, IL All Terrain pioneered experiential marketing well before it became a trend. We apply our understanding of the arts, behaviors and trends to create imaginative, compelling concepts for the world’s biggest brands.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 13, 2023

Here’s an event brief example that demonstrates the overview: Event Name: Annual Marketing Conference Date: March 15-17, 2024 Location: Albuquerque Convention Center, New Mexico Event Description: A three-day marketing conference to bring together marketing professionals from various industries to share best practices and discuss emerging trends.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Regularly rated one of the most popular sessions at Cvent CONNECT Europe, this immersive tour takes attendees on the in-person event tech customer journey – from onsite registration and check-in to session tracking and post-event analytics – this experience will show how Cvent technology streamlines and enhances the end-to-end event experience.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 8, 2024

“What I’d like to challenge event organizers to do is to get a little further down the spectrum where we, too, are creating personalized experiences for our attendees,” Hardcastle-Geddes told participants during her presentation, “Facilitating Curated Event Experiences: How Thinking Small Delivers Big Returns,” on Monday at Convening Leaders 2024.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 17, 2024

“The keynotes were selected because they had done extensive research on Taylor Swift,” said Natalia Almanza, international program and operations coordinator for Indiana University Bloomington’s Arts & Humanities Council in an interview with Convene for the March/April 2024 issue’s edition of “ There’s a Meeting for That.”

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 19, 2024

These could be focused on certain audience niches, visitors from a certain country/region, bringing concepts from education sessions to life or how trends are manifesting themselves in product offerings. Ensure that the first touchpoints your attendees have with your brand (shuttle busses, registration areas, show entrances, etc.)

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Bizzaboo

AUGUST 21, 2023

of organizers plan to maintain or increase their in-person events in 2024. Frankson, Nguyen, and Bauer underscored the need for engaging experiences, interactive sessions, and creative content formats to drive registrations, deliver a memorable event experience, and achieve your goals. Moreover, 86.4% This is mainly because 80.4%

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Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The increase is expected to continue in 2024, as 86.4% “I have been following Bizzabo and its leadership team for the past 10 years and was always impressed by their smart read of industry trends and bold strategic plays,” said Curran.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 15, 2024

By juxtaposing the responses to these two different questions, one could assume that planners don’t see the speakers they select as critical to moving the needle on registrations. Here are some other takeaways from the survey results: Who Chooses Speakers?

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Social Tables

MARCH 22, 2024

Economic trends, consumer preferences, and travel restrictions consistently shift, affecting how the industry operates. To remain competitive, hospitality professionals must stay on top of what’s happening with hotels, event venues, technology, and trends. In 2024, the Independent Lodging Conference (ILC) (A.K.A.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 22, 2024

8 Convening Leaders 2024 session, “When Politics and Values Collide: Navigating Potential Calls to Boycott a Destination.” FLOCC’s first edition — a second is planned for August 2024 in Coral Gables — drew close to 150 attendees, mostly from Florida-based DMOs, attractions, events, hotels, and marketing agencies.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

ILA also conducted three online sessions prior to the conference for both digital and in-person registrants to meet. “We Listen Up This article and those listed below are part of Convene ’s January/February 2024 issue cover and CMP Series story package. That causes people with ‘my’ ideas to come together and come up with ‘we’ ideas.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The next quadrennial Allied Genetics Conference isn’t scheduled until 2024 but here’s what GSA’s conference strategy looked like in 2022: GSA held four hybrid meetings, where most of the content, including keynotes, was streamed and recordings were available to registered attendees for 30 days after the meeting through the meeting app.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But our industry still faces ongoing challenges, such as: high travel, F&B, and production costs; staffing shortages; tight client budgets; and the rise of last-minute event registrations. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. These pressures impact the demand for value-add independents like me.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At Convening Leaders 2024, John Gainer — who served as an FBI special agent for more than 25 years and is currently vice president of security solutions provider TorchStone Global — will present the session, “Navigating the Unthinkable: A Holistic Approach to Mitigating Risk and Responding to Event Threats.” Let’s go with it.”

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 5, 2022

One of the trends Saling noted is the heightened importance of flexible space for collaboration. Because of the pandemic, much of the collaborative design work for the expansion of the BMO Centre in Calgary, Canada, scheduled to open in 2024, has taken place over Zoom. Online registration. Gathering Around the Fire in Calgary.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JANUARY 15, 2024

Our annual Outlook and actionable To-Do’s might not draw as much interest as election forecasts, fashion trends, and love predictions for Taylor Swift + Travis Kelce – but they are nonetheless Brightspot’s #1 attended webinars. See the Top 20 Incentive Travel Destinations for 2024.

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