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CL20-Navigating-Your-Diverse-Workplace
It’s possible to have five generations represented in one workplace, a historical first. This phenomenon raises challenges in communications, retention, training and recruitment. This session will examine the shifting demographics and dynamics in workplaces and how leaders can successfully navigate relationships with each generation ...
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Navigating Your Diverse Workplace

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Solving for the Room Block Conundrum
Participate in this session to hear different perspectives on innovating the attendee room booking process through the lens of the latest findings from the Room Block of the Future research project ...
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Solving for the Room Block Conundrum

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The Art of Persuasion: Using Influence to Increase Sales
In this fast paced session, Business expert and BBC mentalist David Meade, will equip us with persuasive trading and learning techniques to assist us with influencing others while increasing sales ...
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The Art of Persuasion: Using Influence to Increase Sales

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Smart Cities: Strategies, Successes and Impacts
Smart Cities initiatives are designed to improve the lives of citizens and local business through data-driven, yet human-focused technology and sustainability initiatives. Hear insights and strategies from business events leaders at four Smart Cities about their journey and the impact it has had on their business events and hospitality sectors ...
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Smart Cities: Strategies, Successes and Impacts

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This is Your Event. This is Your Event on 5G.
Get the inside scoop on how meetings and events can prepare for 5G, the next giant leap in mobile technology. With connectivity speeds nearly 100 times faster than current broadband services, 5G will reshape how we use mobile devices at events. Explore what faster file upload/download speeds, virtual and virtual ...
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This is Your Event. This is Your Event on 5G.

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Preparedness and Agility in an Uncertain World
Marketplace disruptions, geopolitical upheavals, last-minute client demands — the unexpected doesn’t have to derail a carefully designed event. Leaders who can demonstrate agility and build teams with solution-oriented mindsets are able to successfully navigate challenges. Discover tips on how to create a team culture that encourages flexibility and accommodates change ...
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Preparedness and Agility in an Uncertain World

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Making the Right Connections: Who to Have in Your Corner
With the click of the mouse you are virtually connected to someone halfway around the world as easily as your neighbor down the street. But are these connections meaningful? Listen as Janine Garner discusses how to make sincere connections, including the four types of people that are integral to you, ...
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Making the Right Connections: Who to Have in Your Corner

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AR/VR: Gimmick or Strategy
Virtual reality and augmented reality are tools for forward-thinking planners in addition to being cool technologies. VR allows you to tour your booth during the planning phase before you arrive onsite. AR allows you to demonstrate your product’s functionality in real time. These digital tools help tell your story and ...
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AR/VR: Gimmick or Strategy

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Launch and Leverage SMM to Open Up Opportunity and Resources
The art of strategic meetings management is viewing your organizational meetings holistically and seeing how they save costs and free up resources. But you can take SMM beyond tactical logistics and make it work harder for you. This session will explore simple ways to get started with SMM, how it ...
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Launch and Leverage SMM to Open Up Opportunity and Resources

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Welcoming Diverse Travelers with More Inclusive Events
LGBTQ+ business events attendees can still face challenges despite the best inclusion efforts of events organizers. In this session, we’ll take a closer look at the LGBTQ+ audience and how efforts including gender-neutral language and bathrooms can make all business events participants feel welcome ...
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Welcoming Diverse Travelers with More Inclusive Events

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Events in China and the APAC Region: What’s New and What’s Next?
China’s reputation as a top meeting destination continues to grow the Asia-Pacific region sees increases in its MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions) industry. Hear about China’s evolution as a business events industry leader and gain strategies on how to navigate complex cultural and logistical relationships to ensure your organization’s ...
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Events in China and the APAC Region: What’s New and What’s Next?

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Sustainability: No Longer an Option, But a Necessity
There are many altruistic reasons to make your events more sustainable. And, there’s a financial reason too. Explore the benefits of designing events with sustainability at the forefront in a way that makes financial sense. Examine the steps to build a business case for sustainability initiatives at your events and ...
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Sustainability: No Longer an Option, But a Necessity

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Reach New Business Heights with Purpose, Alignment & Leadership
As one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs Naomi Simson (a Shark on Australian Shark Tank) shares a colorful entrepreneurial story of growth, leadership and culture. She expands on how aligning ‘the right team’ to purpose, vision, and values created a winning formula to scale her enterprise in a rapidly changing experience ...
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Reach New Business Heights with Purpose, Alignment & Leadership

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Letting Go and Learning Fast to Thrive
Having a fixed mindset and leaning on behaviors that have made your career successful up to now may hold you back in the future. Future of work strategist Heather McGowan will reveal the major shifts impacting workplace identity and why human-centered skills like creativity, empathy and communication will be essential ...
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Letting Go and Learning Fast to Thrive

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Ubertrends: How Trends and Innovation are Transforming Our Future
Discover how “ubertrends” and innovations are reshaping business and consumer market behavior. Michael Tchong, an adjunct professor of innovation at the University of San Francisco and author of three books, takes you on a journey through the “landscape of now” to gain insights and ideas on how to connect with ...
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Ubertrends: How Trends and Innovation are Transforming Our Future

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Get to Yes in Contract Negotiations
Discover the negotiation strategies that will help you secure the best hotel, facility and vendor contracts for your events and organization. You’ll her about key contract clauses, tips and variables that can influence negotiation outcomes. Find efficient and painless ways to get to “yes” in this session ...
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Get to Yes in Contract Negotiations

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Leadership at All Levels: Using Intention to Build Success
Leadership can be an elusive, but learned, skill. This session will help you understand the A.C.E. leadership approach (Appreciation, Contribution and Engagement) and how to effectively implement it at your organization. Hear how you can inspire your team to succeed and how A.C.E. culture can make you an effective leader ...
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Leadership at All Levels: Using Intention to Build Success

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Stay in the Game by Increasing Your Adaptability to New Technology
Technology is aggregating the speed, scale, and synthesis of change. If your organization harbors a tech resistant culture, you may be leaving opportunities on the table. In the fast-paced business events industry, how are you integrating tech to better serve your audiences? ...
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Stay in the Game by Increasing Your Adaptability to New Technology

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Hard Data on What’s Happening With Room Bookings
It is widely understood that a percentage of attendees at conventions don’t reserve hotel rooms within the room block. Consequently, it’s challenging to accurately quantify the true impact of convention/group business, attendee buying trends and guest experiences, booking through housing companies, room block incentives, third-party partnerships and shared marketing initiatives ...
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Hard Data on What’s Happening With Room Bookings

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Theme Building: Not What You’re Thinking
Creating a meaningful theme, one that binds the elements of an event together consistently, is often substituted with a tagline that has little to do with the purpose, objectives and structure of the event. During this session you’ll be introduced to a model and methodology for theming events from the ...
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Theme Building: Not What You’re Thinking

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High Performance Habits of Magnetic Human Beings
What makes someone magnetic enough to attract, influence, and lead other people? Charisma is not born, it’s built. How people see us depends on the way we treat them. Therefore, our habits determine who we are and how effective we are in life and at work ...
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High Performance Habits of Magnetic Human Beings

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Adult Learning Research: Promoting Innovative Session Formats
No two people retain information in the same way, which presents a challenge for event strategists and speakers alike. How do we provide education in a format that engages and enlightens all adult learners? This session will take a closer look at how key adult learning principles can assist in ...
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Adult Learning Research: Promoting Innovative Session Formats

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Finding Solutions to Social Justice Issues from Human Trafficking to Homelessnes
As an industry we can come together to make a difference on social justice issues — it's simply a matter of awareness. We'll kick off the session by taking an in-depth look at the human trafficking epidemic, discussing the warning signs that someone is being held against their will and ...
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Finding Solutions to Social Justice Issues from Human Trafficking to Homelessnes

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Improve Business Results with Diversity and Inclusion
Strong evidence has proven diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones. Inclusive teams are 2 times as likely to meet or exceed financial goals, 3 times as likely to be high-performing, 6 times more likely to be innovative and 8 times more likely to achieve better business outcomes.* During this session, participants ...
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Improve Business Results with Diversity and Inclusion

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