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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

Smart Meetings

Can my IT folks prevent a hack or act in case a virus invades your onsite registration system? He’s a sought-after consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His safety topics have included site selection, event safety, emergency operations and crisis communications. Contact him at alan@arrivemanagement.com.

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Dissecting the Generative AI Disruption for Events

Convene by PCMA

She said that she uses AI tools to create names of expo spaces and for such everyday tasks as removing the background in a speaker photo. I Treat It Almost Like It Is Another Person’ “I love it for brainstorming and ideation and coming up with things that I wouldn’t have thought about,” Santos said.

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Event Planner Challenges and Opportunities of the Next Decade

Maritz Global Events

Event registration platforms and management software hold a goldmine of information: names, business titles, personal/business email addresses, phone numbers, travel itineraries and reservations and more. With so many things to consider, site selection will challenge more and more and event planners. Data Protection.

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2021: Moving Forward and Meeting Safely

Blue Spark Event Design

Temperature check stations; no-touch registration; plated meals or pre-portioned servings for all events serving food and beverage; masks and hand sanitizer made available; encourage social distancing and incorporate it into at all event set-ups ; etc. Offer health and safety measures during your conference.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. Yes, all these logistical considerations are important and need to be done well! They assume that the core purpose of a meeting session is to transmit content to an audience.

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6 Perks of Partnering with a Third-Party Event Management Firm

Convene by PCMA

Find a preview of what organizations can expect from CM below: CM Event Solutions plans more than 40 events annually, ranging from small board meetings to annual conventions of 60,000 attendees.

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What is a Destination Management Company (DMC)?

Blue Spark Event Design

In the United States, a DMC typically does not offer: Content or speaker recruitment for the conference. Registration (conference web site, registration process, onsite registration management). Management of, and logistics in, the hotel space. Management of audio visual for general sessions, breakouts, etc.