Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These are presented to the client for approval, ensuring clarity and avoiding confusion post-event. This timeline ensures both the production team and speakers are adequately prepared, contributing to a smooth event flow. We manage our clients’ total budget and create change orders for any requests that exceed the original agreement.

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ADMEI

MAY 15, 2024

Utilizing exhibitor booths effectively has a major impact on how the DMC presents itself and its services. 4 Strategies to Elevate Your Trade Show Exhibition Booth ROI Prepare with your audience in mind. These strategies can help. Touch on your unique process and your areas of expertise, but keep your tone casual and conversational.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

Instead of concentrating on the number of screens you had last year or equipment assignments per room, different questions during the preparation stage may help you find the right, long-term AV provider. Lead With Intimacy In a large audience setting, it is very difficult for a presenter to connect with everyone in the room.

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Meeting Tomorrow

MARCH 24, 2020

If you’re used to presenting for an in-person audience, we know jumping into the world of online events can feel daunting. Over the years, we’ve prepped hundreds of presenters and event planners like you on how to keep their virtual presentations engaging, professional, and seamless. Preparing for Your Presentation.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 29, 2023

When she was preparing to take the exam, she says, her director of sales at the time told her, “I know incredible people who have taken the exam and passed, and I know incredible people who have taken the exam and failed, and it was okay. Study Tips for the Road And the study group wasn’t the only way Yingling prepared. “I

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Stova

AUGUST 25, 2020

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ADMEI

MAY 8, 2024

Utilizing exhibitor booths effectively has a major impact on how the DMC presents itself and its services. 4 Strategies to Elevate Your Trade Show Exhibition Booth ROI Prepare with your audience in mind. These strategies can help. Touch on your unique process and your areas of expertise, but keep your tone casual and conversational.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Preparing for the CMP Exam Aden says that there will never be a perfect time to take the CMP exam. As much as you may feel inklings of imposter syndrome, trust that you are prepared to take the exam and have done the work to earn the designation. “Of You will always come up with excuses to push it back.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

She attributes much of her present success to a number of incredible mentors who taught her to navigate the professional world. Because of them, I am poised and prepared…I am a better manager, writer…a comprehensive and well-rounded events professional. But she struggled to make time to study and prepare.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

Is the events industry more prepared for a future emergency? We thought this would be a good time to reflect on what the shift means and how all of that forced education will prepare us better for whatever comes next. Are we better or less prepared for whatever next disruption comes to the hospitality industry?

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Endless Events

AUGUST 19, 2021

However, the odds are there will be a few bumps along the way, no matter how prepared you are. Depending on the audience, you can present it in a humorous way to lighten up the mood. To sum up, the underlying message is to always be prepared. If you plan well enough, you may not even have anything go wrong!

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 27, 2018

Being transparent about the purpose prepares attendees for getting the most out of your event. It typically begins with a short presentation by a guest speaker, followed by a question and answer session with time to mingle afterwards. It sounds simple, but often gets overlooked. Morning meet-ups can be productive as well.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Ontario Convention Center provides signature and custom-made menus featuring an eclectic range of international, regional, and heart-healthy fare, all prepared with the freshest ingredients, premium meats and seafood, and produce from local farms and growers.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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!” He grew up to become one of Events Industry Council’s (EIC) proud Certified Meeting Professional (CMP).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) brought 700 thought leaders together at JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort in Florida to prepare meeting professionals for whatever comes next with a call to reflect, discover and recharge. There is a powerful connection between play and productivity.

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Endless Events

APRIL 1, 2022

Finding, pitching, and keeping event sponsors is not a gamble – it’s a process that event planners need to carefully prepare for. When event planners can present their potential event sponsors with such data and ROI opportunities, they’re much more likely to find and keep strategic partners for the long run.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2021

Presented with more challenges than ever before, the events industry was forced to do a complete 180. In this chapter, we cover everything from contactless solutions to food and beverage preparation, along with several other best practices to make attendees feel as safe as possible when returning to live experiences.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

So, in face of data points like these, it’s only natural that several aspects of the industry are preparing for the upcoming shift. Fresh off of the steep learning curve that was virtual, planners must now brace for the challenges presented by hybrid. And this, of course, includes venues! Answering Hybrid Needs.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2023

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!” He grew up to become one of Events Industry Council’s (EIC) proud Certified Meeting Planners (CMP).

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

The information was presented with a hologram of René Mooren, the General Manager, and beamed interactively on different walls to talk about rooms functionalities. For a car launch: the hydraulic platforms have space for up to two cars, and these can be presented either on the platform or in the Ballroom, as was the case at the Grand Opening.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

In 2016, ASAE presented him with the Key Award, which honors CEOs who demonstrate exceptional leadership and a commitment to voluntary membership associations. With this experience, he is well-prepared to successfully lead the reopening of British Colonial. In 2022, he was named HSMAI General Manager of the Year for South Florida.

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Endless Events

JULY 25, 2018

Conference speakers do so much more than present nowadays. We are living in a world in which technology leads our everyday lives so naturally incorporating technology into each presentation is a must. Conference speakers should no longer rely solely on their PowerPoint presentations. What Makes for an Engaging Speaker?

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Endless Events

JUNE 19, 2020

You’re either a planner eager to learn how you can set your virtual speaker up for success, or you’re a speaker looking to be trained in the art of virtual presentations. 2 Prepare Your Background. Seeing the person who’s presenting speak against a background of piled boxes and old papers is an instant turn-off.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If you want people to be engaged in talking to each other during the actual presentations and asking questions in the chat, you have to prime it.”. I have a 20/80 recommendation; I recommend speakers prepare 20 percent of the content, and leave the other 80 percent for peer-audience engagement— chat, Q&A, [etc.]—because

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every year in digital marketing presents unique challenges and trends, but an election year takes the complexity to a whole new level. While there will always be available space with digital ads, businesses should prepare for increased costs during an election year and strategize accordingly to maximize their marketing budget.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

PROS : Should another variant hit, you are prepared with a full team, logistics and platform to pivot to a 100 percent virtual event. Do virtual presenters run their own slides? How do you receive their presentations in advance? Can they provide collateral or instructions to your presenter prior to their studio time?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Some large groups are throwing a camera in the room to capture the presentations for an extended remote audience. The best engagement across platforms takes a lot more work up-front, a lot of preparation,” said Holmen. There won’t be one every week, but there will be more preparation around each one,” he said. Best Practices.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

Other times, it’s a full-color PowerPoint presentation with charts of industry data to back up key points. I try to keep my presentations to a maximum of 20 minutes. The meeting might be via Zoom or in person, but either way the PowerPoint presentation needs to look sharp. Be prepared for poignant questions.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

Preparation matters. They can identify which user profiles attended which presentations. This could also be true in 2023 and beyond so now is the time to prepare. Have stakeholders demo the technology and practice dry runs. Go so far as to anticipate where potential hiccups could occur and have plans in place to recover.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2023

Having different stations where diners choose how things are prepared is also a great option,” she said. “It There are definitely some recipes we use that produce zero food waste,” she says, noting that much of the time, food is prepared as needed, as well as using extra prepped and uncooked food in a dish the following day.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 1, 2024

The Big Easy prepares for its 11th Super Bowl When the NFL added another week to its usual 17-week schedule in 2021, this created a small problem between the Super Bowl LVIII and this year’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2022

The Ontario Convention Center provides a full range of technology services, including Wi-Fi, Internet, DS3 and video-conferencing capabilities to accommodate all types of programs and presentations. Decadent pastries and baked goods are prepared fresh daily by our executive chef. Elevated Culinary Options.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2022

The Ontario Convention Center provides a full range of technology services, including Wi-Fi, Internet, DS3 and video-conferencing capabilities to accommodate all types of programs and presentations. Decadent pastries and baked goods are prepared fresh daily by our executive chef. Elevated Culinary Options.

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Trade Show Preparation Sports Location 130

Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2023

This month, the museum will launch the new immersive experience, “ Afrofuturism ” (a term coined by scholar Mark Dery) that “reimagines, reinterprets and reclaims the past and present for a more empowering future for African Americans,” according to a statement on the event website. The exhibition is slated to run until March 2024. “To

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 4, 2024

During his main-stage presentation titled “Mastering Site Inspections for Audiovisual and Production,” Frankel noted that “almost everything is negotiable before you sign the contract. Find out what those minimums are before signing and prepare to negotiate them, or they might be too onerous for your outside vendor to meet. •

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

From marketing and branding to video production and presentation management, event creative is all about elevating the attendee experience. Creative consulting can be critical to this preparation. . Presentation Template Design. An event creative services company can design sleek, branded templates for any type of presentation.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An event that: Asks potential presenters to submit pre-event proposals for sessions isn’t an unconference. Includes breakout sessions as well as presentations isn’t an unconference. [No, Unconferences are led by participants, while traditional meetings are led by presenters. Let’s be clear.

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