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A Unique Meetings Consolidation Model Grows

Smart Meetings

The acquisition of IME Connect follows the merger of Miami-based A-Plus Meetings & Events and Utah-based Columbus Travel into M-Plus Global Events earlier in 2022. Newest Acquisition. Read More : Acquisition to Enhance Breakout Rooms Could be First Step Toward Zoomiverse. Partnership Benefits. The Future.

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Adventures in International Meetings

Smart Meetings

Meeting professionals are not just in the events business, we are in the business of helping people define who they are. That was a reminder from Greg Bogue, chief experience architect at Maritz Global Events and keynote speaker last week at Smart Meetings Incentive Experience in Riviera Maya at the all-inclusive Hotel Xcaret Arte.

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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. Warwick advises breaking the variables into low, medium and high-risk categories for each decision, such as where to source an incentive program.

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The Ultimate Guide to Conferences for Event Planners in 2024

Bizzaboo

A show of unrivaled influence and inspiration, it’s a spirited gathering of all the people, ideas, and trending innovations shaping the catering and events industry. Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Event (AIME) 2024 Feb. AIME is where industry decision makers connect, create and do business.

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Smart Moves in Dominican Republic, Hawaii and More

Smart Meetings

Klein is CEO of M-Plus Global Events , which was formed out of Klein’s Miami-based A-Plus Meetings & Incentives and Utah-based Morris Meetings & Incentives’ merger last year. Jay Klein, CMP.

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Europalco back at IBTM World 2023, boosting Portugal as a Top MICE Destination

Travel Daily Media

She adds: “I will be personally present at the stand and look forward to meeting and engaging in conversation with those who are interested in visiting us” IBTM World, the world’s leading event for the meetings, incentives, conferences and events sector, is an annual international exhibition that brings professionals together.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Robert Sanchez, CMP

Smart Meetings

But this profession isn’t too far off; he tells Smart Meetings that “the discipline, preparation and vision” present in the fighter pilots of Top Gun are “all essential when leading a team and planning missions – I mean, events!” In 2006, he earned his CMP certification from EIC.