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Price-Conscious Wow: How Meeting Planners Find More Value With AV Partners

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But to mesmerize your audience with something they haven’t seen before, meeting planners should invest time developing a productive relationship with an AV partner. By signing a contract with a venue, meeting planners can quickly lose their freedom to choose their AV provider. What does your training program look like for new hires?

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Will Meetings Thrive in 2024?

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A Renewed Group Focus “Just hold the contracted meetings that are on the books and minimize the cancellations that have occurred in prior years due to the pandemic, economic uncertainty and a general reluctance to hold in-person meetings,” said Dan Piotrowski, senior vice president of operations for Omni Hotels.

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Emerging Association Meeting Strategies

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Adjusting Training Tactics Attention spans, in general, may have become the length of a TikTok video, but this also means associations are moving to meet the challenge. The topic that we are really trying to wrap our arms around here at ASAE, because we’re on this journey like every association, is accessibility and neurodiversity.”

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How Meeting Profs Can Find the Right Event Tech

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Who is the target audience? Understanding Event Tech If your goals include attendee engagement, improved DEI and a stellar attendee experience, the solutions could consist of things like mobile apps, digital accessibility tools (live transcription and subtitles) and audience response software to track crowd reactions. Who is attending?

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Hear the Event

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However, hotel employees are only sometimes trained in AV or sound design and quotes can get muddled when negotiating what is needed and expected from the event space team. Always be sure to read contracts carefully! Meeting professionals may run the risk of dealing with hidden fees. Production companies do it all.

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The 2024 Guide for Financial and Insurance Meetings

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They’re less of a captive audience and more of a savvy travel consumer.” “I increase in education and training but with a decrease in pure hospitality or entertainment at 23.5%. “If “They want interaction, not lectures, they want more white space. I think there’s great energy in our industry right now.

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Why It’s Time to Get Serious About AI for Events

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Ask it to make the event more sustainable, design a networking event for people who are not outgoing, incorporate a sponsor in a meaningful way or mark up a contract as if it were a lawyer. How can you refine the question to get what you really need? Ask for suggestions about how to work better with a partner based on their LinkedIn profile.

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