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The Biggest Takeaways from the Global Event Forum – #EventIcons Episode 154

Endless Events

For the second time ever, the International Live Event Association (ILEA) held the Global Events Forum in August 2018 in Denver, Colorado. The forum brought together 30 of the brightest and biggest influencers in the events industry to delve deep into issues, challenges, and opportunities facing the event industry today.

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CES Leans into Hybrid Meeting Format in Uncertain Times

Smart Meetings

The conference formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show hosted by Consumer Technology Association (CTA) attracted 180,000 attendees as recently as 2019, and maxed out in 2015 with 3,600 exhibitors and 170,000 professional and industry attendees. This is a tech conference, after all—participants know how to manage virtual events.

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FICP’s Annual Conference Gave Back, Set Records

Smart Meetings

Joining the board are Elyse Dawson , CMP, senior manager of corporate events and conference center at Invesco; Susan Harding , CMP, event strategy consultant with FM Global; and Julie Wilson , CMP, assistant vice president of meeting and events with Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa.

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3 Lessons for Planners from Global Meetings Industry Day

MeetingsNet

Lesson 1: Mentors Can Move Everyone Forward Adam Tarnow, a professional-development expert at consulting firm PeopleWorks International, led an early-morning session on why mentors are useful not only to planning novices but also to veterans. “At What event type should be used for the desired outcomes? Everyone has help along the way.

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How to Build a Risk Assessment Checklist

Smart Meetings

She is co-chair of Events Industry Council’s Meeting and Event Design Group Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force and now consults leading companies on their return to events approach. Security now includes technology. Technology Risks. But those buckets have become more complex and new areas have emerged.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

We are basically project managers, but unlike technology projects, you can’t move the deadline and unlike before 2020, you can’t let contracts sit.”. Meetings consultant Jeff Calmus, a former vice president of global event management for MetLife, agreed about the importance of managing up. Choices, Choices.

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Can One Virtual Meeting Platform Rule Them All?

Smart Meetings

Meanwhile, the 800-pound gorilla in the streaming meeting space, Zoom, announced this month that it is launching Zoom events, an all-in-one platform that will include a “build your own event hub,” ticketing and registration and a management dashboard for multi-day and multi-track conferences. The future of events is changed.

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