Smart Meetings

APRIL 23, 2024

Emily Laufgraben Emily Laufgraben, Maritz market insights manager, noticed a vacuum in behavioral data about what is driving people from diverse industries to register for events post-Covid. There seems to be this real disconnect between the set of rules that we’ve operated under as an industry and how attendees are actually behaving.”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Don’t Neglect AI In DMA West’ s first general session, “Your Introduction to AI for Tourism & Hospitality,” Brian Matson, senior director of strategy and education of full-service tourism marketing agency TwoSix Digital , began with a story about the discovery of the early internet’s ability to connect people. “I

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

Cohen, a partner at Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen LLC, who specializes in entertainment, criminal defense and hospitality law, to chat about what planners should consider adding to their contracts in 2024. If there’s a problem you need to know who you can go to on the property, not just your initial contact,” says Cohen.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The initiative ladders back to MGM Resorts’ Focus on What Matters credo that includes the environment, guests, communities and the people who make it all happen–employees. “We We understand employees have passions and goals outside of work. The program has two primary objectives. It was like starting fresh,” she said.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But when we find that we’re feeling stressed more often than not, we could face serious effects on our physical and mental health, our work and our quality of life. People who experience high levels of stress are also more likely to experience depression or anxiety disorders and even engage in addictive behavior.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We know they have differences in how they need to connect and what they need to connect about. So, putting line staff in medical practices next to leaders created a dissonance with our attendees, and in the content and discussions we were fostering resonated with some but not with others, and vice versa.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2024

You just have to talk like you normally talk and ask it to do things as you would ask an intern who doesn’t know anything, but is really good at researching,” he said. Even Outlook is going to be 50% AI in the not-too-distant future, so we better get used to using it, he added. “It This is not a fad you can outwait. Never fear.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

One in three adults who love to indulge in a cocktail or glass of wine every now and then are rethinking their relationship with alcohol, per a recent CivicScience poll. This trend isn’t merely a random personal choice; it’s truly reshaping the very fabric of events and conventions.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That thought lingered until last year, when Gerstmann’s wife, Beth Surmont, FASAE, CMP-Fellow, CAE, was about to attend a conference in a state “that had recently put forward harmful anti-LGBTQ+ policy.” She thought, wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to help people donate money to rebalance their spending?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Virgin Islands for a Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience, of course, they are going to start with an update about the latest trends in motivating performers, engage in some pirate-themed fun and tour five-star properties. Truly understanding who you are designing for requires talking to them.

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Endless Events

APRIL 18, 2022

The Event Tech Podcast is often so excited about all the innovation, new event platforms, and other event tech solutions on the market that we forget to talk about the digital divide in the events industry. But what about those who don’t have their own Wi-Fi set up? What do we do with those audiences?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I feel like we are much closer to being peers in the industry, instead of just planner and supplier, and we have a deep mutual respect for each other,” she explains. It] brings with it the knowledge that the individual who has earned the CMP designation worked hard to achieve it and takes our industry very seriously (as I do!).”

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

Using the power of events to connect the wider farming community Since purchasing Indoor Ag-Con in 2018, CEO Brian Sullivan and his team’s goal has been to push for more education about emerging technologies and budding trends around controlled environment agriculture (CEA). One of the areas we’re getting into is food safety.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Smart Meetings spoke with representatives from three leading walking tour companies about how tours can help to truly transform a meeting experience. When a friend visited from Vancouver, he joked about Luan giving him a Wall Street tour. How can you not talk about the biggest financial event to impact our lifetimes?”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

23, the CDC released a summary of what was known about the latest variant of BA.2.86. may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had Covid-19 or who have received Covid-19 vaccines.” Smart Meetings: How concerned should we be about the newest COVID variant BA.2.86? 4 and Sept.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 13, 2024

The leaders would come on TV at the end of the day and say, ‘We collected 20,000 tons of garbage this year, what an amazing Mardi Gras it was.’ That was a long time ago and a different mindset, but I think now it’s really good to see our leaders talking about how much we were able to divert from landfills as a measure of success.”

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Post-F1 Recap “Who comes to an F1 race?” We were so excited to be able to bring that quantity of people here to Las Vegas to enjoy everything the town has to offer.” These are folks who said ‘I would not have come to Las Vegas,’ but for being here [at F1], which is pretty terrific,” he said. “Max start time, that was rough.

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Endless Events

JULY 5, 2022

Endless Events has recently celebrated its 15th birthday and we’ve decided to mark the occasion by hosting a very special #EventIcons episode in which our listeners could ask us any questions they want about Endless’ past, present, and future. “I rented gear and we produced massive high school dances.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

Incredible Expanding RFPs According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, “partnership” evolved by the late 14th century from a Latin root to “one who shares power or authority with another.” We are having to add more hotels than in the past because of a lack of availability. Then she was blunt. “We

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 30, 2023

How to design events that leave a lasting impact At MPI’s WEC 2023 , Jacques Martiquet, known professionally as The Party Scientist , had a room full of meeting professionals dancing, laughing and opening their hearts to people who had been strangers when they entered the room. It was all about seeing if I could get 100 strangers to dance.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Throughout the panel, she reminds listeners that it always comes back to breath: “It’s all about your relationship with your nervous system and the way you learn and teach your body to regulate emotions.” We give so much to others. We love so much for others, but we really need to start with loving ourselves.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2023

People don’t know that Asians are attacked every single day. (Jolene proceeded to show a video of young Asian women speaking about their experiences and how they felt about their physical appearances. It’s not “Oh, I love talking about race and ethnicity. We were chatting and I said, “what about a girl scout badge?”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We tried to walk in people’s shoes and imagine what we wanted them to experience when they enter,” said Oliver “ Oli” Bailey, show experience/senior operations manager with IMEX Group. “We We choreographed the welcome experience with photo opportunities and lots of immersive experience.” We have learned to say, ‘yes.’

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The talking point for IMEX 2023 was Human Nature, something IMEX Group CEO Carina Bauer pointed to as important right now because people need to feel uplifted and positive about the future of the planet and the human race at a time when daily news feeds are filled with so much hardship and adversity. This is game-changing,” said Waterman. “We

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Women’s Bean Project is a nonprofit organization hiring women who have been unsuccessful in finding employment and provides a personalized program for each individual to bolster their self-esteem and learn life and job skills they can utilize anywhere they go. We want her to be able to replicate the job search when she leaves.”

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

We have the same needs in the industry that keep us up at night.” “We have the same needs in the industry that keep us up at night.” Speakers include Dr. Eric Solomon talking about how to design events based on how the “human operating system” processes information and connections.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

We are highlighting women who have worked their way up and earned the position of General Manager (GM) to show our appreciation for their dedication to hospitality, their genuine passion for helping others and for standing strong in an industry where men still dominate the majority of leadership roles.

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

As things currently stand in the events industry, we’re planning events in 2022 as if the COVID-19 pandemic never existed. Deanna’s perspective adds a breath of fresh air to the Event Brew podcast, so make sure to tune in and hear what she has to say about planning events in 2022. But is that a good thing?

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Endless Events

JUNE 13, 2022

If you need a quick refresher on what Will and Brandt think about them, then this episode is perfect for you. First, Brandt and Will talk about NFTs (non-fungible tokens). He’s not too excited about this particular trend, though. Think about the fees we have to deal with when we purchase a ticket abroad.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Think about waste management and DEI—remember that sustainability isn’t just environmental. The seven action areas can help you start to organize and think about the steps you could take. We can do parts—you’ll be surprised by what little things you can do that can make an impact.” You don’t have to meet every single one.

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Endless Events

MAY 26, 2022

As Nick emphasizes over and over again, event professionals have a desirable skill set for those who work in the metaverse. After all, the metaverse is about designing immersive, 3D experiences – and so are in-person events. Tune in to this educational episode about up-and-coming trends: from web 3.0 “Web 3.0

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2023

Why the future workforce may require more gig workers and regional meetings All those workers who disappeared from event services, housekeeping and meeting staffs over the last three years are not at home watching soap operas according to author and speaker Eric Termuende. We are producing fewer new workers and immigration has slowed down.

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Endless Events

MARCH 17, 2022

Especially in the current state of political unrest in the country, who are they going to put in charge of making decisions regarding things that could be affected by the political climate? Are they going to consider only working with people/organizations who align with their ideal politics? Are there demonstrations or protests?”

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I think we are the trusted source. We are the trusted advisor,” says Mason. “We We have an opportunity…We need to tell our story about how we make advances.” to the best of our ability once we started to get that muscle memory back in an in-person meeting,” says Mason. We as humans have wisdom.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And that’s why it’s time to talk about virtual event production -again. And wow, did we deliver this week! Today, we don’t introduce you to one, but two #EventIcons guests: Kara Gladish and Sheehan Hubbard from Socio. That’s continuing to get better and better as we progress.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 24, 2021

Before the pandemic hit us, we took genuine human interactions at events for granted. As the industry pivoted to virtual events, virtual audience engagement became one of the most talked-about challenges. How do we replicate genuine interpersonal dynamics in the virtual world?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

By continuing to design meetings with purpose and intentionality, we can discover the many opportunities all around us to elevate wellness in meetings in a new and fresh way. What do you love the most about the industry you work in? What excites you the most about the future? What are you grateful for the most?

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