Smart Meetings
JANUARY 9, 2023
What attendee doesn’t love the red-carpet celebrity treatment? Last week, Visit Greater Palm Springs restarted a tradition interrupted by Covid of providing meeting professionals with VIP treatment at the International Film Festival at Palm Springs Convention Center. The celebration of storytelling started 33 years ago when then-resident Sony Bono thought it would be a good idea to attract attention to the area.
Endless Events
JANUARY 9, 2023
Event management software can potentially make an event planner’s job more efficient. But when the right software doesn’t exist, planners are left to fend for themselves, often lacking solutions. In July, we discussed this exact issue in the episode, Why is there no good event software? Will and Brandt discussed what features the industry desperately needs and how companies can offer solutions.
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Smart Meetings
JANUARY 9, 2023
Smart Meetings is proud to announce the eighth annual Smart Women in Meetings Awards. This annual awards program recognizes uplifting industry forces in a special issue of Smart Meetings magazine and at a bespoke event, custom designed to advance careers, create powerful networks and pave the way for the next generation of women in meetings. From visionaries and industry leaders, to entrepreneurs, stellar performers, innovators and rising stars, join us in recognizing the top women in the meetin
Motivation Excellence
JANUARY 9, 2023
Well, folks, it’s a new year. For many, that means resolutions. And for many of those people, it means failing those resolutions within the first month. And there we have it…using the word “fail” right off the top of a new year. There are reasons people often fail at New Year’s resolutions and ways to fix them, as we wrote about in a past blog , but this post is about why failure is not an ending or the opposite of success.
TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 9, 2023
Tips and methods for producing greener events. Sustainability is now required at meetings as attendees are demanding an environmentally conscious event. Curbing pollutants has become part of the meeting professional job description, but how does one to do so at in-person and virtual events in a meaningful and cost-effective way? Partnering with event technology and destination experts can help cut through the green myths by taking an action-oriented, big-picture approach.
Convene by PCMA
JANUARY 9, 2023
PCMA CEO and President Sherrif Karamat, Randy Fiser of AGU, Jason Dunn of NCBMP, Don Welsh of DI, and Howard Givner of ELI. (Whatever Media Group). On Monday at Convening Leaders 2023, PCMA President and CEO Sherrif Karamat announced elements of a new strategic plan — one that he described as “blazing a new trail forward, with and for the global business events community.”.
MICE Travel Today brings together the best content for MICE professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Convene by PCMA
JANUARY 9, 2023
Adam Grant offered Convening Leaders participants ways to bring more original thinking and rethinking to their work. (Whatever Media Company). In his work as an organizational psychologist and consultant, Adam Grant has seen a lot of companies go out of business, he told a packed audience on Monday afternoon. It wasn’t because their leaders weren’t good at thinking, said Grant, a best-selling author, top-rated Wharton professor, and CL23 Main Stage keynoter.
Eventbrite
JANUARY 9, 2023
Your event doesn’t end at clean-up. A great post-event blog post will put the event to work for you all year long. Here’s how to write it.
Convene by PCMA
JANUARY 9, 2023
Anthony Vade, Anthony Vade, event experience strategy director of Encore, presents “Immersive Reality: The Intersection of Design and Technology” for both digital and in-person audiences. (Whatever Media Group). How can event organizers navigate the challenges that come with building immersive experiences that will take their events to the next level?
Conferences that Work
JANUARY 9, 2023
Meeting professionals rarely talk about status and power issues. This is unfortunate because the ways that status and power manifest at meetings matter. Why? Because a majority of those who attend most meetings have little say over what happens at them. Typical meeting formats are rigid, and attendees play largely circumscribed roles. So, let’s explore the roles of status and power at meetings.
The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.
Travel Daily News
JANUARY 9, 2023
Destination DC (DDC), the official destination marketing organization for Washington, DC, provides an update on the benefits of meeting in DC and the organization’s convention sales and services strategies to attract events of all sizes to the nation’s capital.
AIME
JANUARY 9, 2023
Maggie Diasinos loves events. With over 23 years of experience across many different sectors of the industry, Maggie brings her infectious passion to the AIMEbassador program. We chatted with Maggie about AIME, the world of business events and the importance … The post Meet AIMEbassador Maggie Diasinos appeared first on AIME.
Convene by PCMA
JANUARY 9, 2023
Olympic track-and-field medalist Allyson Felix chats with emcee Holly Ransom — and CL23 participants — on a wide range of topics Monday. (Whatever Media Group). Allyson Felix, the most decorated American track-and-field athlete in Olympic history, put her everyday reality in perspective when she sat down to talk with emcee Holly Ransom on the Main Stage Monday morning.
National Association For Catering ane Events
JANUARY 9, 2023
For restaurant owners, managers, and all of us who care about those who make it possible to enjoy a meal out, cooking burnout is a pressing problem. So, why does chef burnout happen, and what can be done to avoid cooking burnout? Let’s dig into it.
Gavel International
JANUARY 9, 2023
Reading Time: 6 minutes Chicago, Illinois is a popular meeting destination no matter the time of year because of the vast variety of entertainment and business-related options. The city is full of diverse art, culture, top-rated restaurants, and outdoor fun along the lakefront and Chicago River. Also known for its architecture, your group can get an up-close look at famous Chicago buildings, among them, 875 North Michigan (previously known as the John Hancock Center) or the Willis Tower (previou
Travel Daily News
JANUARY 9, 2023
6th Annual [CLIC] to be Held on March 1 &2 at Westin South Coast Plaza.
Special Events
JANUARY 9, 2023
Hear from our special speaker: Tracy Stuckrath
Convene by PCMA
JANUARY 9, 2023
Desirée Knight speaks at the 2022 PCMA Visionary Awards. Knight is the new chair of PCMA’s 2023 Board of Directors and Trustees. Desirée Knight, CAE, CMP, DES, has held several key volunteer roles at PCMA, contributing to the efforts of the Convening Leaders Content Committee from 2016–2017 and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee from 2018–2019, as well as serving as a member of the PCMA Board of Directors since 2019.
Convene by PCMA
JANUARY 9, 2023
Charles Starks, chair of PCMA’s 2022 Board of Directors and Trustees, oversaw the most diverse board in PCMA’s history. Charles Starks’ one-year term as Chairman of the Board of PCMA in 2022 marked the first year of a reorganization that combined the PCMA and Education Foundation boards into a single body — one that Starks, president and CEO of Nashville’s Music City Center, says is the most geographically diverse in PCMA’s history.
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