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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

Smart Meetings

Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus. Can my IT folks prevent a hack or act in case a virus invades your onsite registration system? It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts.

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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

Smart Meetings

Who’s Booking : Hyatt is seeing a huge increase in leads from third-party RFP platforms like Cvent, and site selection companies like HelmsBriscoe. What the Pick-Up Is : Convention customers are saying that both exhibit sales and domestic attendee registration is pacing better than anticipated. San Francisco and Chicago.

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Benefits of Hiring a Professional Event Planner

Blue Spark Event Design

Why should you hire a professional planner? One way to ensure the event’s success is to hire a professional event planner. When hiring professional planners, you need to consider a few important things : First, you have to make sure that the company is legitimate and insured. More contacts, more choices.

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Event Planner Challenges and Opportunities of the Next Decade

Maritz Global Events

There are a lot of things event planners need to be ready for. Here are challenges and opportunities event planners can expect in the next decade. Event Planner Challenges. Data protection is always on event planners’ minds. Event Planner Opportunities. Want to get ahead of the game and modernize your event?

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How to Create Inclusive In-Person Events

Convene by PCMA

In a recent PCMA webinar, Rocío Alvarado, senior accessibility specialist at Diamond Accessibility, simplified some ways in which planners can build more inclusive events (watch the webinar “ Accessibility Considerations for Event Planners “). Photo courtesy of Disability:IN). Do the signs have large and high-contrast text?

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The Top US and Canadian Event Management Agencies for 2024

Bizzaboo

Services include strategy, experience design, creative storytelling, animation, digital solutions, motion graphics, environmental design, fabrication, mixed reality activations, post-production editing, product prototyping, venue selection, guest registration, logistics management, and live, digital, and hybrid event production.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

I’m about to go on my first pre-con site visit since the Covid pandemic started over two years ago. My work at a pre-con is different from that of a typical meeting planner since I focus on the meeting’s design and facilitation. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job.

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