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3 Lessons for Planners from Global Meetings Industry Day

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In addition, MPI conducts a 12-hour online-education marathon featuring three 15-minute sessions per hour; these cover a wide range of job issues for planners as well as career advancement and physical and mental wellness. Tarnow’s final thought for planners: “There is no such thing as a self-made person.

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When Mother Nature Is an Unwanted Attendee at Your Meeting or Event

Smart Meetings

Shannon Copeland The seamless coordination of countless logistics required to produce a productive and enjoyable meeting or event is a Herculean task. In today’s world, you cannot overlook the possibility of Mother Nature becoming an unwanted attendee at your meeting or event.

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Are You an Event Technologist—but Your Bosses Don’t Know It?

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A recent MeetingsNet webinar addressed the role of event technologist in both strategy and logistics, and how planners seeking to be one can get their executives to buy into this now-critical skill set. First, the job “is far beyond building registration pages online, developing event apps, and other basic stuff,” she noted.

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AI for Events: The Future is Here

Endless Events

Notably, in the form of chatbots as well as integrated into fully-fledged event apps. Each has their perks for both event profs and event-goers, and we’ll be looking at how the functions you may already know them to have can be pushed further in future events. What are event apps and their perks?

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Experiential Events: The Most Powerful Marketing Tool

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This is great news for event marketers and planners who can plan experiential eventsevents that aim to evoke positive emotions in attendees and resonate with their values. In a sense, all events are experiential. Experiential Events Have Gamified Elements.

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10 Trends Poised to Disrupt the Meetings Industry

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The role of the corporate event planner today is more important than ever?—?shifting shifting from a focus on procurement, planning, and logistics to becoming a key orchestrator of unique and memorable experiences. Meeting planners of the future will need to become community change agents within their respective organizations.

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Your Ultimate Virtual Event Planning Checklist!

Endless Events

Developing the concept of your event is extra important when planning a virtual experience. This will help you make the right decisions, especially in a field that is relatively new to event planners. Picture the theme you’ll want your virtual event to follow, and make sure you stand out! Virtual Event Logistics.