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Making conferences more inclusive: The crucial role of creches
By Jill Hawkins In an industry keen to promote inclusivity and diversity, including a creche at a conference is proving to be a pivotal element in widening an event’s appeal and ensuring that no delegate is excluded. Sammy Connell, head of events at NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union and ABPCO co-chair, has been at the forefront of this movement ensuring that their events are accessible to all delegates, including working parents.
Onsite report: National Sales Conference
By Jill Hawkins Over 600 sales professionals gathered in Birmingham this week for the National Sales Conference, run by Lincoln West. Now in its tenth year, the theme of the event was growth and retention. “We celebrated our tenth anniversary this year by inviting some of our legendary speakers back to our event along with new faces.
UIS offers resources to students facing food insecurity
On the campus of the University of Illinois Springfield lies a repurposed conference room full of refrigerators, shopping baskets, canned goods and bookcases stocked with bread. This room is the UISCares Food Pantry. Since 2016, UISCares has served as a resource to students facing life circumstances that result in “food insecurity” - or lack of reliable access to sufficient, nutritious food.
Equity matters
Felicia Asiedu, senior marketing manager for Europe at Cvent Equity or equality? That is the question. It’s so important to understand the difference – equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Whereas equity acknowledges that each person has different circumstances, and allocates the resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome. I am not sure that I have openly and outwardly experienced equity.
IWD 2023: Why it's time to #EmbraceEquity
Gabby Austen-Browne, founder of Diversity Alliance and co-founder of the Diverse Speaker Bureau Until I started working in the DE&I space, I hadn't considered what equality versus equity actually meant in real terms. Now, an important piece of the work I do is helping leaders and companies to understand the difference.
The Venues Collection Executive Chef selected for Aspirational Culinary Apprenticeship Programme
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Meeting Martin: Getting drunk | Conference News
The other week, CN ran a blog about the events industry and its predilection for a cheeky tipple (read: some of us need to wind our necks in). You can read it here when you're finished on my blog. I love a pint: the whole pub experience is something that matters quite a lot to me. Give me a 17th Century pub decorated with crusty old barrels and horse brasses and I’ll swoon with nostalgic levity.
Why Marriott's new agency commission has been a long time coming | Conference News
As a business, you can’t blame Marriott for making a sweeping change to their commissions policy, reducing it from 10% to 7% for groups business in the US. There, I said it. “Sell Out!”, some will scream. “You wouldn’t have said that as an agent!” some may say. Only, I frequently did, and occasionally in a more public forum. However, let me be clear, I did not advocate for such a change, I merely felt it was an inevitable consequence of how the industry has been operating.
Time at the bar | Conference News
My friends laugh at me when I get tagged on Facebook, yet again, at another industry networking event, an award ceremony or just a meeting with a client that leads to dinner – and the inevitable drinks, and more drinks. They ask me if I ever do any work, and I explain that it’s all part of my job and perfectly normal within the events industry. We are an industry of drinkers, we host events and we attend events.
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