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Evolution of Spatial Design Technology Could Simplify Event Planning

Smart Meetings

Read More: 25 Unexpected Hospitality Trends from 2023 The combination of more efficient room modeling technology and a rapid shift back to physical events with lean staffing, limited budgets and short timelines set the stage for the embrace of virtual planning tools, he explained.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

Conferences that Work

I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” Wilson sees emotions, institutions, and technology as disjointed in time. And so it goes with meetings. Technology. ” — E.

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The Rise of LinkedIn

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Corbin Ball, a leading event-technology consultant, deleted his 16-year-old Twitter account at the end of October, writing that Twitter, now X, has “gone off the rails” under owner Elon Musk’s leadership. We are passionate about events and meetings. It brings the whole professional world together,” he said. “We

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40 Social Media Influencers Every Hospitality Professional Should Follow

Social Tables

@tojulius Julian Solaris, Editor of The Event Manager Blog, always has the low-down on attendance-worthy events and the newest event technology. Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. TahiraCreates. DahliaElGazzar. sean_oneill.

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Event Tech Trends to Watch in 2019

Meeting Tomorrow

Imagine that each event has a “window” into all the other locations, and that the focus can be shifted from place to place–like a group video chat but with an event in each window. There are a number of meeting design elements that need to be accounted for, but the cost savings and expanded participation seem well worth it.

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3 Ways to Engage Your Audience at Your Event

Social Tables

One of the things we encourage people to do is to consider the impact of non-traditional designs on their program: multiple room sizes, innovative setups and out of breakout sessions, to name but a few. of The Thrival Institute studied the conundrum of meeting design and found that there isn’t a one size fits all set up.

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5 Ways the Meetings Industry is Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

.” For these reasons, millennials value networking over almost any other aspect of events. As a demographic, they also value experiences over material goods, want to share those experiences (usually via social media), have higher technological literacy, and are 62% more likely to travel then their generation X counterparts.

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