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Preparing For The Worst: Is Your Production Company Ready To Pivot Again?

Endless Events

Who wants to sit through hours of platform demos, sourcing studios, and finding individual vendors for each moving part of a virtual event? They’ll find a small and unique venue and source a platform for remote attendees. As you prepare to plan your next event, re-consider the team you have by your side. No problem!

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

Smart Meetings

Who are your vendors, and would they be self-sufficient in preparing for a weather event, or would they need emergency guidance? 4: Pre-empt Travel Issues Monitoring where keynote speakers and other event VIPs are traveling from will help you prepare if they are not able to make it due to the weather.

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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

GBT found that business travel is far from crushed under the weight of shifting business goals, and instead, is taking new shape as a prime and prepared vessel for reinvigorating inclusive, successful company cultures. We learned quickly how well the remote model worked. The Great Reprioritization.

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3 Ways to Upstage Any Large Event in a Post-Pandemic World

Smart Meetings

Although many things have changed over the past few years with many people shifting to remote or virtual events and more reliance on technology, one thing remained unchanged: people are social beings and nothing can replace the face-to-face experience of attending an event in person.

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The Mega Guide to Live Streaming Events

Endless Events

In order to decide on your purpose, you have to consider your remote audience. Consider what you want the live stream to accomplish by thinking through these questions: Do you want the remote audience to have the same in-room experience as people at the event? Do you want your remote audience to be able to network?

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Price-Conscious Wow: How Meeting Planners Find More Value With AV Partners

Smart Meetings

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. It also can be achieved with remote speakers, which meeting planners can leverage to save on fees, travel and lodging.

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Lessons Learned from MPI WEC in Mexico

Smart Meetings

They started having frank conversations with partners working on the next three years of events and vendors who had submitted RFPs, but had not been selected. “An Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers. Construction delays at America’s Center Convention Complex in St.

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