Cvent Meetings

Does your current strategic meetings management strategy include planning for your social media presence? 

These days, it’s hardly enough to just send out an email invitation for a meeting and expect to gain the attention of all of those who should attend your meeting – you need the message to “go viral” and make its way through social media channels and get noticed.  This is true not just for public events, but for corporate and association events as well.  Between LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter...

I’ve been in many discussions over the years regarding what it really means in our industry to be “strategic.”  We use terms like strategic meetings management, strategy by meeting type and strategic sourcing,  and we are always trying to approach our roles “strategically.” So what does all of that really mean anyway?  Is being strategic a character trait?  Is it a mission statement?  A plan of action, or a destination?

Here is my question for you:  do you have a strategy for being strategic?

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Cvent’s team is headed to Toronto for GBTA Canada’s annual conference!  We’re looking forward to the great education sessions provided by GBTA as well as the opportunity to connect with our industry colleagues.

For many travel and procurement managers, meetings and events are still an area of hidden spend and opportunity. We would love to speak with you about how Cvent's solutions can help you with your meetings program and integrate with corporate travel technologies.

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One of the most popular sessions at the recent Corporate Meetings Summit was The Road Ahead – Review of Cvent’s Roadmap for 2012 & Beyond, and featured Cvent’s technology leadership team discussing the path from development to launch and upcoming product features and functionality.  Today’s stop story in Business Travel News features highlights of the session, along with insights from Jeannie Griffin, our Director of Product Management. 

Read the full story here, and tell us what you think will...

This weekend the Cvent team will head to Orlando to meet with corporate meeting and event planners from some of the top pharmaceutical and bio-life-science companies around the world. At the top of everyone’s list of questions this year is sure to be how the Sunshine Act will affect medical meetings and how to track the information necessary for governement reports.

Cvent experts will be on hand to discuss how our meetings management technology system can help medical meeting planners track all...

One of the sessions during the 2012 Corporate Meetings Summit, “Strategies to Get Your Meeting RFP Top Priority Attention,” was broadcasted live to a virtual audience of 1,000 planners and hoteliers around the world, in addition to the 200 attendees at the Gaylord National Resort.  The large interest in this session further highlights what moderator Dave Lutz said has become a big issue within our industry: how to effectively source and place the right meeting, in the right space, for the right...

At Cvent, we're no stranger to acronyms—we use lots of them! Whether you're just beginning to dip your toe in the waters of starting a strategic meetings management program or a few years into the journey, all the meetings industry acronyms are still bound to trip you up on occasion. 

Hopefully you've never said SMMP and had people think you said: SMB, MSG, SMS, or even some of the others! During the recent Corporate Meetings Summit, we debuted this short video about a Director of Meetings' quest...

Imagine the following scenario:

You need to fly from Seattle to London at the end of the month. Instead of going through methods available to you today, you pick up your phone and speak "Book me a flight from Seattle to London." Your phone responds, "Got it, what date would you like to go?" Normally you would then expect to book your hotel, but, you don't have to. Your phone is taking care of it automatically. Your phone knows your history: it knows where you've stayed in the past, the types...

Strategic sourcing plays an integral role in Strategic Meetings Management. After developing  a successful Strategic Meetings Management Program (SMMP), sourcing accounts for almost 60-70% of the savings potential, which stems from risk reduction and increased service level.

As technology evolves in this industry, we as professionals are constantly thinking, “How can our process be more effective in the future?” As meeting professionals and sourcing experts it is in our nature to analyze the most...

I’m sure many of you saw the article in the NY Times last week regarding the tracking of payments made to medical professionals, U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors. While the subject is not new to us – we’ve known about HCP compliance and the Sunshine Act for some time now – what is new is the attention it is getting on a national scale. To help shed some light on the implications of the article, I talked with Lisa Keilty, CMP, Founder and President of The Keilty Group and...