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4 keys to influence others… in your meetings too

For quite a few years now, there has been no doubt of the power and importance of neuroscience as a key tool for meeting planners… or for any professio ...

Sustainability and CSR, Sustainability and CSR

IRF study examines sustainability in incentives and meetings

If you are tired of the conversation around sustainability, get ready for more, m ...

Associations, Associations

ICC Wales wins ICCA Best Marketing Award with a lesson in security

A surprising ICCA Best Marketing Award this year, with a winner who could look li ...

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Should the convention bureau be integrated into economic development?

We have seen in another article how the value of our industry is shifting from to ...

Research and studies, ALL

How our industry’s value is moving from tourism to economic development

It is a slow, progressive change, but a very powerful one: increasingly meetings and events are considered not just as a tourism asset (whose mission would be filling hotels and restaurants) but as one of economic impact and knowledge development. This idea came up about a decade ago and is no less than a drastic change of D ...

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Bleisure, the new challenge for convention bureaus

Bleisure, i.e., business + leisure, or in other words, taking advantage of busine ...

ALL, ALL · Madrid

Tim Burton’s Labyrinth, an immersive experience where you decide the path you take

From the hand of Letsgo Company, the exhibition 'Tim Burton's Labyrinth' arrives ...

Ideas and tips, Ideas and tips · Eslovenia

How events can be the best awareness-raising tool, according to Gaja Brecelj

When it comes to our environmental track record, we are a highly imperfect indust ...

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Networking and learning, the top reasons for attending events

In its current research phase, "Redefining Event Attendance", the Future Meeting Space (FMS) innovation network is exploring why people choose to attend or not to attend in-person business events in the future. The GCB German Convention Bureau e.V. and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, together with th ...

Ideas and tips, Ideas and tips

Wanted: vision, focus and storytelling (at stake: our survival)

It's one of the first times, but I'm afraid it wont be the last. One executive told me that at his management c ...

Sustainability and CSR, Sustainability and CSR

Should we change our focus on sustainability issues

Anyone who doubted the seriousness and urgency of climate change will have had more than enough reasons this su ...

Agencies, Agencies

Colja Dams updates us about the situation in Germany

We all know the madness that we have experienced in recent months in Spain’s event activity, but… how are other countries doing? We spoke to Colja Dams ...

ALL, ALL · Madrid

Multi-award-winning event technology company Visual Europe Group opens its local office in Madrid

Visual Europe Group, one of Central Europe's largest event technology providers, ...

ALL, ALL · Moscú

The importance of an event: May 9th for Russia

You know that we like few things more than analysing the impact and the strength ...

Research and studies, ALL · Barcelona

Data, immersion, and loads of innovation: what is changing in audiovisuals?

Florian Rotberg from Invidis Consulting is a great expert on trends and innovatio ...

Ideas and tips, Ideas and tips

What are the keys to motivate and persuade? The psychologist-author Nathalie Nahai explains

This British psychologist, author of two books (‘Business Unusual’, ‘Webs of Influence’), speaker, moderator, is a great expert on the human mind and especially on motivation and persuasion methods. She now lives in Barcelona, in case you are looking for an English-speaking moderator or speaker for your conference. We took t ...