Smart Meetings

JUNE 8, 2022

The average price for a paid virtual event is $443. Are virtual attendees seeing value? It depends. “To demand a fee, digital events must boast compelling content and a seamless experience. According to Kim Myhre, founder of Experience Designed, in “ Attendees to Virtual Events: To Charge or Not to Charge?

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 31, 2023

MootUp offers a variety of ready-to-use virtual rooms for events or work sessions, including a virtual event auditorium. Courtesy of MootUp) Convene editors gathered ideas and insights from a variety of sources to examine what the metaverse is and how business events professionals are and will be using it in the future.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Because after producing dozens of successful virtual events over the past few months, we’ve learned a lot! Back before virtual events were the norm, planners already dabbled in event apps. And one of the great things about this particular piece of event tech is push notifications. Gamification Wins.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 13, 2021

At a time when the flexibility offered by remote work is valuable for employees, maintaining and enhancing employee connection and community requires special attention from employers.”. When the pandemic hit, Green knew he had to recreate the kinds of in-person bonding experiences that he’d developed into something akin to them online.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2021

Event planners surmised that audiences had gotten so comfy in fuzzy slippers that they would not want to leave their houses. Hybrid events, offering live as well as a full virtual reality immersion experience, would be the wave of the future the thinking went. The Virtual Advantage.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hybrid events—whether they are conferences, expos or training courses—are meetings that can be accessed in person at a physical location, or remotely via an online platform. Make audience input easy. In the physical event space, this could look like cafe areas, networking receptions, or themed discussion zones.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This young, charismatic, and knowledgeable young man knows all about AV, staging, and the current trends in the events industry. Will and the live audience had a lot of questions for our new host. “It’s about how that affects the 5,000 people that are watching online when it comes to their hybrid event.

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Endless Events

MARCH 29, 2021

A year ago, the events industry had no choice but to master the art of virtual events. As restrictions are slowly lifting and the worst is hopefully behind us, we can glimpse into the future of post-Covid events. One of the greatest challenges the future poses is hybrid event interactions. ” Will interferes.

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Endless Events

MARCH 15, 2021

While every big event already had its own event app, event app design was something only a few businesses dealt with. Event technology is no longer just one aspect of an event. It’s the very heart of hybrid and virtual events! The online experience could never replace that.

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Endless Events

APRIL 6, 2021

As the first point of contact for event planners, Syd Griffith, Karmen Jericevic, John Pistotti, and Ambre Wade know how to decipher what their needs are and how to create solutions for better virtual audience engagement. Not only are they event professionals, but they also know about all the ins and outs of working remotely.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s a great episode to catch up with everything Will and Brandt have been talking about in the past year and to see just how engaging this dynamic duo sounds in front of a live audience. They go over several favorite event tech tools, future predictions, and general event planning tips. ” Event Platforms 101.

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Eventtia

MAY 20, 2022

It was entirely online. Now, your business probably isn’t made up of Ewoks or beeping robots, but the fact is this: Reed Pop, the organiser of this event, went above and beyond to not only create a fantastic event but foster that engagement. The virtual swag bag. The trick: create a connection. Complete a quiz.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 12, 2022

While creating opportunities for virtual and in-person attendees to interact with each other has been a hurdle for some event organizers, contests, such as trivia, allow both audiences to compete together for actual prizes. “It Polls and surveys can be conducted easily online with the results displayed to both audiences.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 25, 2022

It’s time to tackle speaker management for your event. . of event organizers find it easier to enlist outstanding speakers for virtual events than in-person gatherings. As important as it is to find speakers , it’s only the first step in event speaker management. Enhance your in-person events.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

To kick things off, JT Long, moderator and editorial director for Smart Meetings , asked the guests to share event tech horror stories. Krueger began by recounting a virtual event hiccup that occurred despite doing all the necessary preparations. On the event technology side, event apps are going to be the ones to watch.

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Traveler's Q

JANUARY 3, 2024

With the emergence of new technologies and changing societal norms, organizations need to stay ahead of the curve and plan innovative corporate events that meet the evolving needs of participants. As we look toward 2024, several corporate event trends are expected to shape the industry.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Innovative virtual language interpretation software is making attendee accessibility a reality for everyone involved in creating inclusive meetings. The PCMA Convening Leaders conference this January offered something no other annual mega-gathering of the association has: virtual interpreters. Planning for a Multilingual Audience.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

For sure, there are a significant percentage of meeting attendees that can’t wait to participate in person; but organizers and planners found out during the first several months of 2022 that a sizable audience of previous attendees were more than happy to participate virtually. Pick the low-hanging fruit.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

Drag Taste’s ‘Sangria and Secrets’ is considered the world’s number one online experience. Teresa Al Dente, President & CEO at the Drag Taste virtual experience, spoke with Rachel Moore, Director of Global Campaigns at Hubilo and told the story of their pivot from live to virtual events. A remote location is forever.

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Eventtia

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The idea of networking can be daunting for many, especially when it involves virtual events. With technology expanding and virtual event opportunities increasing, it’s essential to know how to make the most of these experiences. Cost Savings for Event Hosts Virtual events present a cost-effective solution for event hosts.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 20, 2022

While virtual technology helped preserve and grow the events industry throughout the pandemic, hybrid events have become a contentious issue among event leaders, especially as we “reincorporate in-person audiences in our meetings,” as Krueger describes where we are in the process. And that means paying for labor.

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Eventtia

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Many corporations initially adopted virtual events to substitute their delayed or cancelled in-person events during the global pandemic. In this article, we will discuss the different types and ideas for virtual corporate events. Virtual conference. Online training/education event.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is aiming to restore its pre-pandemic in-person participation at the same time it cultivates a larger online audience. The changes brought about by the pandemic have created “the best period” in his long career in the business events industry, said Bill Reed, FASAE, CMP.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” VR: Guaranteed Audience Engagement? “At a strategic level with events, we want to know how do we keep audiences engaged ,” says Will. You can use your fingers to do things and you don’t need your remotes.” With that, I can augment even the space I utilize. And I have a Horizons workplace.

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Best Corporate Events

JUNE 24, 2021

In the world of events, hybrid means a mixture of the elements of in-person events and meetings and the elements of virtual events and meetings. A hybrid event goes way beyond simply live streaming , which is broadcasting a live event in real time to an online audience.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 1, 2022

Hubilo demonstrated the answer to these and other questions in its Mastering Immersive Experiences (MIX) 2022 hybrid event this week. The day-long presentation mixed content from three in-person hubs—San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and London—along with thousands making up the remote audience from around the world.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 1, 2022

Hubilo demonstrated the answer to these and other questions in its Mastering Immersive Experiences (MIX) 2022 hybrid event this week. The day-long presentation mixed content from three in-person hubs—San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and London—along with thousands making up the remote audience from around the world.

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Meeting Tomorrow

MARCH 24, 2020

If you’re used to presenting for an in-person audience, we know jumping into the world of online events can feel daunting. Over the years, we’ve prepped hundreds of presenters and event planners like you on how to keep their virtual presentations engaging, professional, and seamless. Don’t fear! Make “eye contact.”

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 19, 2021

Put simply, it’s a collective term, combining Augmented (AR), Virtual (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) elements to create an immersive experience. Cesar Caceres, Technical Head of APAC, from disguise shares with PCMA the top 5 benefits of using xR for your virtual events. Bring remote speakers together. So how do you use it?

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Brightspot Incentive Events

MARCH 18, 2021

Face-to-face events, conferences, and meetings were postponed or cancelled for the near future. Due to the pandemic, subsequent quarantine, and travel restrictions, our company shifted our mindset and developed new product offerings for our clients in the form of virtual events and hybrid meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Some large groups are throwing a camera in the room to capture the presentations for an extended remote audience. For smaller groups a progression of virtual content sharing followed by some in-person workshopping and closing a few days later with virtual lessons learned might be more effective.

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IT&CM Events

AUGUST 25, 2021

Check out some of these exciting event experience and exposure opportunities that took place at IT&CM Asia and CTW Asia-Pacific 2020 virtual, with many segments returning at the 2021 virtual edition. With the rise of virtual events, organisers have the added challenge of keeping the audience engaged remotely.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 26, 2021

“This idea of being able to remotely focus the camera and remotely adjust the settings, I think is huge”, says Brandt. New Times, New Tech.

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The MICE Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

These events are known far and wide, and large amounts of time and money go into their organisation, with the aim of positive long-term impacts in the host city through the infrastructure development, event attraction and tourism. But what about smaller events? That happened because we were all online.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 31, 2022

A major misconception is that a hybrid event means that digital and in-person audiences experience the same content at the same time. More than one-third of 8,000-plus marketers responding to a Statistica survey last fall said they expected to hold hybrid events. You can also create a very different experience for each audience.

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The MICE Blog

JANUARY 7, 2021

It offered both online and offline audiences a theoretical and practical glimpse into the world of mixed reality using VR technology. In my previous blog article , I shared the first part of this event—highlights from a keynote delivered by Yuri van Geest, a Rotterdam-based futurist and best-selling author.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Virtual events might not be something completely new at this point. Because much like event profs had to adapt to the new normal, so did presenters and attendees. So on this week’s episode of the Event Tech Podcast, Brandt Kruger and Will Curran are tackling this head-on. Or rather, someone else.

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