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CEMA Recap: Inspiration, Creativity, and Community

Great Events - August 17, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
The Corporate Event Marketers Association (CEMA) holds a conference each year with anywhere from 400 to 500 attendees. This year, hosts Alyssa Peltier and Paulina Giusti were able to attend for the first time, and they’re bringing all their learnings to the podcast. In this episode, Alyssa and P...

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Achieving Sustainability through Radical Collaboration

Great Events - July 26, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
There’s a surge of interest for organizations to build more sustainable meetings and events programs. But how do we do it effectively and avoid greenwashing? On this episode, host Alyssa Peltier is joined by Kris Justice, Senior Manager on the Cvent Enterprise Client Success Team, and Ben Quarre...

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Behind the Scenes: Planning MPI’s 50th Anniversary

Great Events - July 19, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Meeting Professionals International produces one of the biggest event professional conferences every year and they recently celebrated MPI's 50th anniversary at The World Education Conference’s (WEC) in San Francisco. Creating an event for event planners is no small feat. What does it take to pul...

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Planning an Event for Your Village: A Peek into Our Business Leaders Retreat

Great Events - June 28, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
If you’re planning an event for people in the event planning industry, you better bring your A-game. In this episode, two of Cvent’s Meeting and Event Planning stars, Kayla Sommers and Sam Efthimiades, join us to share their secrets on how they were able to wow the company’s top performers at ou...

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IMEX Frankfurt Rundown

Great Events - June 16, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
IMEX Frankfurt is one of the biggest events for hospitality and event professionals. With their 20th year anniversary this year, they had 100 countries represented and over 11,000 attendees. It is the place to be for anyone looking to learn more about the industry, get a sneak peek at innovation,...

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Cvent Travel Summit Recap

Great Events - June 07, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Virtual events or in-person events? Why choose when you can take the best of both worlds and go hybrid! Kelli Kopec, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cvent and Lauren Allison, Lead Meeting and Event Planner at Cvent join Paulina on this episode to discuss another event that was a smash hit - ...

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Hybrid Events, the Best of Both Event Worlds

Great Events - June 07, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Virtual events or in-person events? Why choose when you can take the best of both worlds and go hybrid! Kelli Kopec, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cvent and Lauren Allison, Lead Meeting and Event Planner at Cvent join Paulina on this episode to discuss another event that was a smash hit - ...

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Big Events Are Back!

Great Events - May 31, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
We’ve spent the last couple of years mastering virtual and then hybrid events, but now big, beautiful, in-person events are back! And the possibilities are endless. In this episode, our hosts Alyssa, Rachel, and Paulina discuss the new approaches being taken when planning massive events, both in ...

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Getting Smart About Professional Development

Great Events - May 24, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
CMP, CGMP, PMP, CMM…Do you already have tons of acronyms after your title? Or are you thinking about adding some? In this episode we’re joined by Amanda Young, Owner of Young Events Consulting and Nari Courtney, Senior Marketing Manager at Cvent, to discuss professional development. As you liste...

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Global event trends

Great Events - May 17, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Felica Asiedu is the Senior Marketing Manager in Europe for Cvent, and on this episode she joins the gang to discuss the trends she’s seeing with events at a global scale. Since COVID, the way we tackle events is different. This includes basic logistic complications but also behavioral changes. T...

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Global Event Trends

Great Events - May 17, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Felica Asiedu is the Senior Marketing Manager in Europe for Cvent, and on this episode she joins the gang to discuss the trends she’s seeing with events at a global scale. Since COVID, the way we tackle events is different. This includes basic logistic complications but also behavioral changes. T...

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Reactions to the Forrester B2B Summit

Great Events - May 10, 2022 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
The crew at Cvent just participated in a pretty noteworthy conference, the Forrester B2B Summit, and we want to tell you all about it! It's a third-party consultant agency that allows us to get out of the sales pitches and really talk about marketing as a whole. Pretty awesome stuff. So, on the s...

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Live from Cvent CONNECT

Great Events - May 04, 2022 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
This is a special live episode from the annual Cvent CONNECT conference for event professionals, marketers, and engagement experts. Listen in as Alyssa, Paulina, and Rachel share some of their highlights from past years and dish out advice on making the most of networking opportunities. Our trio ...

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Episode 8: Live from Cvent CONNECT

Great Events - May 04, 2022 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
This is a special live episode from the annual Cvent CONNECT conference for event professionals, marketers, and engagement experts. Listen in as Alyssa, Paulina, and Rachel share some of their highlights from past years and dish out advice on making the most of networking opportunities. Our trio ...

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Reimagining your internal events

Great Events - April 19, 2022 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
COVID-19 and quarantine are fading like distant memories, and events, both internal and external, are on the rise. So how should you be thinking about your internal events to get the most impact? Rachel and Paulina get behind the mic to share lessons learned from the internal events they’ve kic...

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Reimaging Your Internal Events

Great Events - April 19, 2022 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
COVID-19 and quarantine are fading like distant memories, and events, both internal and external, are on the rise. So how should you be thinking about your internal events to get the most impact? Rachel and Paulina get behind the mic to share lessons learned from the internal events they’ve kic...

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How Video Converges with Events

Great Events - April 12, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Since 2019, the average user has watched over 100 minutes of video content per day. That’s a lot of time, which is why it’s so important to think about video as a part of your marketing strategy. In this episode, hosts Alyssa, Rachel, and Paulina discuss how events and video converge, creating a ...

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How video converges with events

Great Events - April 12, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Since 2019, the average user has watched over 100 minutes of video content per day. That’s a lot of time, which is why it’s so important to think about video as a part of your marketing strategy. In this episode, hosts Alyssa, Rachel, and Paulina discuss how events and video converge, creating a ...

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Introducing Great Events

Great Events - April 05, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Great events create great brands, and it takes a village to create an event worthy of your company image. Meet your village: Paulina, Alyssa, Rachel, and Brock. They’re part of the team behind CVENT, and your hosts for the Great Events podcast.

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Meet The Hosts: Rachel Andrews

Great Events - March 29, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Meet Rachel Andrews, Senior Director of Meetings and Events at Cvent–and one of the hosts of the Great Events podcast. Overseeing over 1,000 global events a year, she is an expert in turning chaos into something beautiful. Rachel loves bringing people together in a meaningful way, enabling her ...

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Meet The Hosts: Paulina Giusti

Great Events - March 24, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Meet Paulina Giusti, Senior Manager of Meetings and Events at Cvent–and one of the hosts of the Great Events podcast. From high-touch luxury meetings and VIP incentive programs, to large-scale conferences and trade shows, she is an expert in handling the “Invisible Workload” of planners, enablin...

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Meet The Hosts: Alyssa Peltier

Great Events - March 22, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Meet Alyssa Peltier, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Cvent–and one of the hosts of the Great Events podcast. Alyssa helps enterprise organizations and Cvent consultants tell the story of how planning, meetings and events, and marketing organizations can work together to achieve growth out...

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Post Event Activation - Behind the Scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021

Great Events - August 05, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
For our last installment of our six-part series, we are talking all about post event activation. Our speakers, Manpreet Kaur, Director of Meetings and Events at Cvent, and Robin Clark, Manager of Trade Shows and Events at Cvent, talk us through everything they do to make sure that the data collec...

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Tech Talk - Behind the Scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021

Great Events - July 29, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Let's talk about tech! In this episode we talk to our tech experts on what it really takes to put on a hybrid event.  In our fifth installment of our six-part series of going behind the scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021, we are talking all about technology. We are joined by our experts Taylor Bohn, Ev...

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Working with Partners/Vendors - Behind the Scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021

Great Events - July 27, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
For part four of our six-part Behind the Scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021 series, we talk to Lauren Allison, Kayla Sommers, Paulina Giusti, from our Meetings & Events team here at Cvent to get insights on how they worked with our partners and vendors on our hybrid event. Listen in to hear how they wo...

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Staffing a Hybrid Event - Behind the Scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021

Great Events - July 22, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
In this episode we are joined by Sam Efthimiades and Allyson Evancheck from our Meetings & Events team here at Cvent. They join us today to talk through everything that it takes to efficiently and effectively staff a hybrid event. Listen in to hear all their tips and tricks from staffing our annu...

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Hybrid Event Design - Behind the Scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021

Great Events - July 20, 2021 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Listen in to episode two with Rachel Andrews, head of Meetings & Events here at Cvent, and Paulina Giusti, the Lead Planner for Cvent CONNECT 2021. In this episode we are talking all about the hybrid event design of Cvent CONNECT 2021. Stay tuned to hear all they had to say and keep up with our s...

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The Decision to Go Hybrid - Behind the Scenes of Cvent CONNECT 2021

Great Events - July 15, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
We're back to bring you a behind the scenes look at how we're putting on a hybrid Cvent CONNECT 2021. Listen in to hear how Cvent planners are preparing for our hybrid event as they are working on it! In this episode we are joined by Rachel Andrews, head of Meetings & Events here at Cvent, and P...

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How to Make Events Accessible in 2021

Great Events - April 01, 2021 09:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
In this episode we talk to Sofia Leiva from 3Play Media about how to make events accessible in 2021. Accessibility is so important no matter what type of event you are having, but it is becoming especially important for virtual events. Our guest shares her best tips and tricks on how to make sur...

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What Your Audience Wants from a Virtual Event

Great Events - March 18, 2021 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
In this episode, we talk to Delanda Coleman, Director of Product Marketing at Brightcove, as she shares all the tips she has learned to make your virtual events more successful. These days with so many distractions at our fingertips, in order to keep attendees engaged during an online event, the...

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