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

Smart Meetings

But to mesmerize your audience with something they haven’t seen before, meeting planners should invest time developing a productive relationship with an AV partner. What types of customer service training are you doing for your employees? What does your training program look like for new hires? Minimize the downside.

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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

While “90% of large companies have committed to hybrid work plans [that reduce] the touch points that once conveyed company culture, for all companies, including those which never went remote, unprecedented reports of burnout are signaling that businesses must quickly adapt,” said GBT. We learned quickly how well the remote model worked.

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Hybrid is Dead: A View from the Stage

Smart Meetings

The cost of production, between software and other resources needed to pull off a simultaneous virtual immersion experience, increased their budget by more than 30 percent and the work to plan a hybrid was like planning two entire events at the same time. It’s difficult to give a true hybrid experience to remote viewers.

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The Evolution of Meetings: Lessons for Navigating a Hybrid Future

Smart Meetings

Continue to train staff on hybrid meeting planning. It may be listening to a certain speaker, visiting a particular sponsor, connecting with colleagues, or attending a new product demo. Be sure to partner with sophisticated virtual meeting technology vendors that feature AI-based tools.

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Vibe Interactive Whiteboard: Your New Ally For Amazing Events!

Endless Events

And as a state of the art production company, we make a point to stay up to date with the latest trends. Not only did organizations have to shift to virtual with their experiences, but they also had to learn the ropes of remote work. The Endless team has been working remotely since before it was the default setting.

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Why Email Is Such a Time Suck

Convene by PCMA

Convene spoke with Simon several days before his session about how remote and hybrid work is causing us to rethink the best ways to collaborate. Is it more difficult to collaborate now that most of us work remotely at least part of the time? Here are some of his insights. It is harder, but in other aspects, it’s easier.

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Digital and Hybrid a ‘Great Change’ for the Industry

Convene by PCMA

I’m the one that is securing those production vendors to come in and capture my content and to stream my event. My role in that has always been — I’m the lead, I’m the customer,” Monroe said. I’m not the one who’s actually doing it — I’m the one signing the contract and paying for it.