MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 3, 2023

discussions to a “Belong-a-palooza” to a filmmaker workshop, fresh topics will complement evergreen sessions such as event contracting and meeting security, for a lively educational agenda. Attendees can get a guide to tailored education in the hosted-buyer lounge and in the Inspiration Hub. From generative A.I

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Best Corporate Events

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you organize corporate or collegiate events, chances are you’ve hired keynote speakers and understand their importance. Keynote speakers typically kick off events and are vital in setting the tone. A competent keynote speaker will bring energy, enthusiasm, and entertainment. What (Exactly) is a Keynote Speaker?

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Bizzaboo

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Are you struggling to find an outstanding speaker for your event? After all, the right conference speaker has the power to captivate, inspire, and educate your audience, making your event a memorable experience. Prepare a detailed audience profile before you search for the right speaker for your event. It’s a tall order.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the app, participants build their schedules, check in to sessions, complete surveys and connect with speakers, sponsors and one another. To manage the team communication necessary to execute a great event, Dolecki develops a staff playbook. Today, applicants can track their continuing education process through EIC’s online portal.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

But often, explicit communication — saying or writing what’s needed to guide or influence desired behavior — improves matters over staying silent or beating around the bush. Here are five examples of how explicit communication improves meetings. A little explicit pre-party communication will improve your meeting.

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Travel Daily Media

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The post AIME 2024 Knowledge Program Interview with Keynote Speaker, Lisa Ronson appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. Keynote speaker Lisa Ronson will examine the intricate dynamics of glocalisation’s transformative impact on the global business events industry.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Meeting Professional Continuing Education Includes Sustainability Certification Meeting professionals are taking sustainability more seriously than ever before. Look to Events Industry Council (EIC), a leader in event professional continuing education. It includes education around social responsibility and inclusivity.”

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 25, 2024

Read More: 4 Zoom Alternatives to Give Virtual Attendees the Freedom They Crave More than $1 billion of that capital went to Hopin, a company that was largely acquired last year at a fraction of its previous $7 billion valuation by RingCentral , a public cloud-based communications company that put down roots in 1999.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

At the annual event, West Coast association professionals gather for an expansive tradeshow, business solution appointments, education programs and networking to close out the year with a festive twist. Day two kicked off with a keynote speech from author and public speaker Lisa Braithwaite, M.A., 12 to Wednesday, Dec.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

Event planners, speakers and attendees all saw their calendars cleared out last March, returning slowly with virtual events and only now showing a glimmer of hope for the return of live conferences. Here are some ways you can make attendee experience a differentiator for your next event: Communication. The Best Speakers.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 24, 2022

Where better than the home of the five-time NFL Champion Dallas Cowboys—AT&T Stadium—to meet for an intense day of education, inspiration and fun? How to Fix a Failure to Communicate. Also on the Texas-event agenda, a communications boot camp with two in-demand speakers. Culture Shock. Daren Martin.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

How soon in the process you do start working with them and how would you describe the communication arrangement? We have had the opportunity to present at their meetings, which has helped to improve communication with the city and businesses within the community. SM: How close does NAMM work with Visit Anaheim (VA)?

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All Conference Alert

AUGUST 24, 2023

The secret to success in the ever-changing field of education is to stay informed. The role of education conferences in shaping the future of learning cannot be overstated. Attending an education conference in 2024 is your gateway to broadening your horizons, learning new things, and laying the foundation for a prosperous career.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Badges included QR codes that were scanned as attendees accessed the show floor and education sessions, helping organizers understand what was popular based on actual behavior. Delegates were encouraged to print their paper badges at home and pick up a lanyard and sleeve on-site. Some on-demand printing was available. Attendee Benefits.

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Bizzaboo

AUGUST 14, 2023

A well-crafted speaker bio is a great way to create a strong first impression with event attendees and generate buzz. Keep reading to learn more about why speaker bios matter, discover how to write a bio for a conference, and view speaker bio examples that should give you a better idea about what a strong bio looks like.

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

“Live webinars in addition to the summits where we do three hours of education, we now teach the majority of all of our certificate sessions online. Whether they can’t afford the time out of the office, they want bite-sized one-hour education, something that they could listen to while they’re driving. The Beginnings.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 29, 2024

Meeting professionals spend months and sometimes years designing events that are engaging, inspiring and educational. Body & Brain offers wellness enhancement programs for conferences in the form of speakers, classes, icebreakers and team-building exercises. Was all communication clear, short and effective?

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Eventtia

MARCH 21, 2023

In other words, apart from offering flawless event experiences to your attendees, you also have to build a plan on how you’ll communicate with customers efficiently. In this article, we’ll explore the role of communication in maximizing the benefits of events.

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The MICE Blog

MAY 26, 2021

On 12 March 2021, I hosted a virtual session at ITB Berlin together with Elina Jutelyte, Founder of the Freelance Business Community and Heidi Legein, Managing Director at The MICE Guru. The educational MICE stream was hosted by VDVO and covered key topics on the current agenda. It’s an energy or a vibe.

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Endless Events

MAY 13, 2022

Before we get into the formal education side, we have to acknowledge that event planners need to have a set of particular soft skills. These soft skills help event planners manage everything that goes into event planning, for example choosing a venue, labor costs, attendee engagement, sponsorship opportunities, speaker management, and more.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You can see: The rating of each session on a scale of 1 to 5, How many attended the session, How many left the session halfway through, Sessions and speakers with the highest attendance levels, Which sessions sparked the most engagement (hands raised, Q&As, polls), How many times do attendees replay each session? GIVE VALUE TO EXHIBITORS.

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Blue Spark Event Design

AUGUST 16, 2021

They quickly became overwhelmed with the additional planning, execution, and branding involved with a virtual event, and they literally ran out of time to train the lifeblood of the conference – their virtual speakers, and panelists. When they called us in a panic to help them train over eighty virtual speakers, our team was ready.

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ADMEI

AUGUST 15, 2023

Through this partnership, both organizations will be able to grant member access to additional professional development opportunities, share communication with their memberships, cross-promote events, and provide speaker resources. “We ADMEI is the premier resource for education, standards, and practices for DMCs from around the globe.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

What to consider when planning an event at an all-inclusive resort Meeting Professionals International (MPI) CEO Paul VanDeventer likes to say that when planning the association’s World Education Congress (WEC), MPI takes chances so members don’t have to take on the risk. Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

On Track Tahira Endean The umbrella tracks for educational content are the same as the categories featured at IMEX Frankfurt in May. 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 20, 2024

Amy Calvert, EIC CEO speaking at CMP Advance 2024 Read More: Meeting Professional Continuing Education: CMP Spotlights How Conscious Connection Transforms Events Lisa Belanger , Ph.D., Read More: Work Smart: The Art of Communication The post Event Experts Talk Connection at CMP Advance appeared first on Smart Meetings. She climbed Mt.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2023

In addition to three days of speakers, networking opportunities and idea-sparking content, The Show’s sustainability efforts—a big topic in the hospitality industry in general, and a topic of focus at The Show in particular—will be on full display. “The

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 5, 2024

During that time, she also advanced from the role of committee member to vice president of communications for her chapter. The comprehensive education and rigorous training associated with the CMP have not only deepened my knowledge but also equipped me with a skill set for success in this dynamic field.” Where is She Now?

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A common misconception is that two cameras are enough to achieve production success, a shot of the speaker from head-to-toe and a tight shot from the chest up. Similarly, TED’s production guide , which is the golden standard for capturing educational sessions, recommends at least four cameras. Keep it professional!

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Endless Events

JULY 15, 2021

Will, Thuy, and Nick revisit PCMA EduCon 2021 and share three different perspectives: one of a co-host, one of a virtual attendee, and one of an educated outside observer. I couldn’t just turn off and start doing emails, even for the educational sessions. But the thing is that it wasn’t communicated properly.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

We also need to have real-time, real-person communication when a system breaks down like in the Southwest situation. In this kind of a massive shutdown, we need a better communication system. That’s your money and should be in your bank account. That system failure left consumers stranded without any information and no one to talk to.

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Traveler's Q

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

An event website serves as a centralized location for all information related to the event, from event details and registration to agenda and speaker bios. An event website serves as a centralized platform for the promotion, registration, and communication of all event-related information to the attendees.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The global professional organization officially launched 50 years ago in 1973 in that very city and has since grown to include more than 2,000 members, delivering research, education and networking. New Foundation President Hamish Reid, MICE Consultant with Hills Balfour, shared that between 2016 and 2022 alone, more than $1.7

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Endless Events

APRIL 19, 2021

Rather than equally prioritizing both audiences, the old hybrid event simply offers one-way communication from your event to participants that view the event remotely. Hybrid events offer the opportunity to expand an event’s reach, engagement, and return on investment for speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors. But how, you may ask?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

Instead, you rethink the message to understand what is most effective to educate and activate your audience. When you are an engaging speaker throughout your presentation, polling becomes one of many effective tools. For my money, the #1 skill I’d teach anyone in communications is this scanning skill—write epic headlines.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Attendees heard from speakers from two major associations, the PCMA and National Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Association. The National WIC Association faced the challenge of how to get the members back in person and how to get them the education that they needed. hosted lounges with breakouts to host attendees and speakers.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

From an absence of diverse panel speakers to a lack of options for those visually or hearing impaired, events still aren’t catering to everyone. Therefore, it is important for event organizers to continuously educate themselves and explore new ways to make their events more accessible and inclusive for all.

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