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The 10-Step Guide to Nonprofit Event Planning

Social Tables

Operations Manager: An event operations manager oversees vendor communication. Operations managers negotiate prices, book vendors, place supply orders, and communicate vendor details between the planning team, venue, and benefiting organization. They research services, collect event quotes, and execute event contracts.

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Hackathon Points to More Biases in Twitter Algorithm

Convene by PCMA

He was reviewing another Times story about bias being discovered in other automated systems, including: The algorithm that calculates credit quotas for Apple’s credit card may give higher limits to men than to women. AI services from Google and Amazon both failed to recognize the word “hers” as a pronoun, but correctly identified “”.

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Hotel Online Payments: How and Why to Transform Your Payment Process

AltexSoft Travel

Streamlining and automating processes. While some are finding the automated payment processing too confusing to switch, others are hoping to avoid fraud in this way. Of course, OTAs and hotels are not always directly connected – quite often, between them, a few middlemen such as TMCs, bed banks , or GDSs reside.

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Trade Show Ideas For Better Planning, Payments, and Promotions

Endless Events

Marketo, for example, makes automation with other platforms easier. While closed-loop payments have the advantage of not including intermediaries such as banks, they also have the tendency to burden the customers by making them download individual apps for each vendor. Both of these have their own pros and cons.

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How To Choose the Best Online Registration Software – The Ultimate Guide

Eventtia

The software ensures that this process is automated and user-friendly. An efficient system that doesn’t break the bank yet meets all your needs is the ideal. Automated emails can streamline this process and ensure attendees receive timely, relevant information. You should also be able to create and manage discount codes.

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Sabre API Integration: Hands-On Experience With a Leading GDS

AltexSoft Travel

Instead of connecting with thousands of vendors separately, an online booking platform can integrate with just one GDS — and tap into the almost exhaustless source of information. Short for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment, Sabre was developed back in the 1960s by IBM to help American Airlines handle growing volumes of passengers.

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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

AltexSoft Travel

Corporate travel managers must consider factors like travel policies, preferred vendors, traveler safety, budget constraints, and approval workflows. In the travel management landscape, both B2B and B2C travel booking platforms, developed by individual software vendors (ISVs), serve distinctive roles and cater to different users.

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