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What is a Smart (Event) Venue?

In this blog, I talk about our views on what makes a venue a smart (event) venue. Many of us are familiar with the concept of a smart building. It is any structure that uses sensors and other technologies to automate a building’s functions and opera...

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How The Digital Age Benefits Exhibition Corporations

Despite the massive impact of technology and digital on the economy, trade shows still are one of the most important instruments in B2B marketing and communication. As a result, the exhibition industry has a major impact on the world's economy as it...

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Accelerating Digital Transformation in the Public Sector

With people being more mobile, connected and reliant on technology than ever before, councils are expected to be more agile in the way they engage with communities.

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The Dawn of Smart Venues

Beyond smart building automation features, a new class of venues is emerging. One that uses real-time data to drive collaboration and create frictionless environments. Within these venues, information flows seamlessly across teams and partners unloc...

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From AI To Ethics: An Event Professional’s Insight Into The PCMA European Influencer Conference 2019

From September 22-24, the PCMA European Influencer Conference took place in Barcelona. Many of the sessions and topics during the conference circulated around technology, bringing up productive discussions on future challenges and trends that event ...

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AEO Conference 2019 – Of Live Events And Future-Driven Venues

This year’s conference of the Association of Event Organisers was held at the De Vere Beaumont Estate in Windsor, England, gathering the entire event community in the conference, congress and exhibition organization field.

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The Fine Art of Sustaining A Performing Arts Centre

Let’s be honest, the obstacles that the performing arts industry faces seem to grow as time goes on. It’s tougher than ever to maintain a thriving arts organisation, as there are now even more hurdles to overcome. Firstly there’s the challenge of

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Smart Venues: E-Book

Smart Venues are an immersive and collaborate facility that brings people, processes, technology, and data together to create frictionless event experiences

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Smart Venue Infographic

Smart Venues are an immersive and collaborate facility that brings people, processes, technology, and data together to create frictionless event experiences.

5 event trends proving the future is happening now in europe

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5 Event Trends Proving the Future is Happening Now in Europe

No one can see into the future. We can, however, continuously gather feedback from the industry, try to analyze tendencies and forecast future event trends. If you look at recent discussions on social media, it becomes clear the events and exhibitio...

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Spotlight on user experience: How venues need to adapt to changing event set-ups

In the digital age, everyone is talking about the user experience and the event industry makes no difference: The success of meetings and conferences crucially depends

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Buying New Technology without Remorse

For brick and mortar companies, software purchases make up the second largest capital expenditure that the company will assume. In today’s world, software applications run businesses. As such, these decisions are critical to the success.

How Performing Arts Centres Become Data Heroes

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How Performing Arts Centres Become Data Heroes

Let’s face it, there are countless entities involved in planning and executing an event. It all starts with a vision, on how you want the event to go, along with your goals and objectives. From here there will be discussions around budget and possib...

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Event & Tech Trends 2019: Is It All About Digital?

It's that time of the year again (yes, holiday season, but no, we're not talking about the three-course-meal you are preparing for Christmas now), when bloggers around the globe sit down to write a blog to let the world know about their personal hig...

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11th AIPC Facility Operations Summit - Part II: Streamlining Venue Processes Through Digitization

In part 1 of this blog series, Holger Friesz wrote about the impact of digitization on the venue and event industry. While attending the 11th AIPC Facility Operations Summit in Barcelona, it occurred to me that a lot of the challenges around venue o...

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11th AIPC Facility Operations Summit - Part I: Digitization in Event Management

What does “staying ahead of future industry trends” mean? What kind of investments should venues envision to prepare for the future? What benefits do you expect from the investment in digitalization? These and many other questions were discussed at ...

3 major obstacles event coordinators overcome

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How University Event Coordinators Can Overcome 3 Major Obstacles

When you’re an event coordinator for a higher education institution, you’ve got a host of unique issues that you face daily. Not only are you dealing with the common time constraints and last-minute changes familiar to event organizers abroad, there...

Why have a single campus events database

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Why Have A Single Campus Events Database?

When you’re an event coordinator for a higher education institution, you’ve got a host of unique issues that you face daily. Not only are you dealing with the common time constraints and last-minute changes familiar to event organizers abroad, there...

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Out with the OLD and In with The NEW

Out with the Old People get stuck in the processes of using spreadsheets and Word docs to try to piece together projects, people, and data. Paper trails that have to be followed. Information gets lost in translation. Data has to be entered into mult...