Corporate Event Management

MCLEAN, Va., Aug 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Cvent, the world’s largest provider of cloud-based software for event management, venue selection and web surveys, today announced the 12 winners of its Facebook photo contest, “The $10,000 Great Event Photo Contest.” The $10,000 Grand Prize goes to “World Balloon Convention,” submitted by event planner Julie Connor. As the venue for the winning event, the Sheraton Dallas will also receive $8,000 of complimentary advertising on the Cvent Supplier Network, and the ten finalists, profiled on the Cvent Event Planning Blog, will each receive $1,000.

The contest encouraged event planners, attendees and venues to submit a photo of the best event they’ve ever planned or attended for the chance to win a share of $28,000 in total cash and prizes, and was open for submissions from July 7 through August 8. More than 1,400 entries were submitted for events ranging from small gatherings to huge conventions. Starting on August 9, visitors to the Cvent Facebook page were able to vote once per day on their favorite photo, and the 25 photos with the greatest number of fan votes by August 22 were named semi-finalists. Of those 25, a panel of Cvent judges selected the Grand Prize Winner and ten finalists, which represent a broad spectrum of corporate, social and non-profit events.

“The World Balloon Convention represents everything we were looking for in the competition: an engaging photo, compelling story and real originality,” said Eric Eden, Vice President of Marketing at Cvent. “The meetings and events industry is made up of incredibly talented, creative professionals, and we were very impressed with the passion and commitment of the entrants. We’re happy to help shine the spotlight on their work and on the exceptional results that can come from strong collaboration between event managers and their venue partners. Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you to everyone who participated in the contest.”

Cvent evaluated all eligible entries based on the following equally-weighted criteria: how well the photo showcased the event, how well the description explained what made it a great event, and the originality of the event.

More information on the Grand Prize-winning event and venue, along with profiles of the ten finalists, can be found at http://blog.cvent.com/blog/meeting-and-event-planning-solutions/and-the-winner-of-the-cvent-great-event-photo-contest-is .

About Cvent

Founded in 1999, Cvent is the world’s largest meetings and event management technology company and has over 800 employees worldwide. Cvent offers web-based software for meeting site selection, online event registration, event management, e-mail marketing, and web surveys, and helps over 90,000 users in 40 countries manage hundreds of thousands of events, surveys and e-mail campaigns. The company has processed over $2 billion in online payments and has managed over 30 million event registrations and survey responses for its clients. Cvent’s client base ranges from small non-profits to large corporations, and includes over 30 companies from the Fortune 100. A leading authority on Strategic Meetings Management (SMM), Cvent’s technology has been used to implement SMM programs around the world.

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Venues Event Management staff recently got to experience what they sell as around 90 staff took part in a large outdoor team building event on an airfield next to their premises in Swindon. Working in partnership with preferred team building partner Bluehat UK, staff participated in the ‘Chequered Flag’ event.

Chequered Flag is a team building activity that offers the thrills and spills of a themed company Grand Prix, Wacky Racers style. Teams are provided with a basic pedal powered kart from which they must design and build a winning machine. In order to earn resources teams create a pitch, the most outlandish of which will gain the most sponsorship. The activity is designed with multiple roles ensuring everyone is involved and engaged and is a great way to get teams energised and bring out their creativity.

Alisdair Ross, head of the project and event team commented: “We have been providing team building experiences to our clients for a number of years. From a product knowledge point of view, it is easier to promote the benefits of an activity if you have experienced it yourself. In addition to this, we have been expanding our operational teams and have a lot of new starters –

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Businesses and corporations are increasingly holding events that seek to promote their businesses, products, services and other important matters to them. Holding of these corporate events is getting more competitive all the time, with clients demanding better delivery of event hosting services while providers of the services getting a lot more professional in their delivery. This has created opportunities for both users and providers of events management not only to receive well organized and affordable events hosting services, but also to receive and deliver the same on a professional level and at affordable prices.

In the recent past in Australia, events hosting businesses and organizations have emerged, offering a wide array of event hosting and management services, all targeted at different clients. Some of these businesses are small firms with less than 20 employees, but with a passion to provide quality events hosting services such as official corporate events, private functions, other events, conferences and parties. In order for such a business to attract customers and get some good repute in the market, the events hosting business needs to provide efficient and reliable services that are as professional and stress free as possible.

The city of Melbourne is one of Australia’s largest cities. It is home to a large cosmopolitan population with various larger corporations, multinationals and businesses located here. In this great city, there are many local, corporate and private functions and events going on at any given time. One of the best providers of events hosting services in Melbourne city provides professional events management and hosting services. This firm has been providing professional services across Melbourne for some time now. Their aim is to focus on hosting events such as parties and conferences so that the clients enjoy themselves and do not have to worry about supplies, logistics and other matters about the function.

These event managers Melbourne can provide these services to individuals holding parties or other events as well. Corporate organizations and businesses are also welcome. These services are also available to charity organizations that need to hold evens such as fundraisers and other meetings. Description of these services include children birthday parties, bridal showers, Prom nights, Wedding anniversaries, baby showers and other similar events. Events for corporations in Melbourne include product launches, Christmas parties, training and conferences, team building events as well as staff rewards and recognition events.

These services can be easily and affordably procured from the event hosting firm in Melbourne. This can be done through the internet or over the phone.

About Events management Melbourne

EnRoute Events are a Melbourne based event management company that provides consultancy and execution of ideas. We can organise corporate events such as product launches and conferences as well as private events such as birthday parties, baby showers, weddings and prom nights.

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Venues Event Management is delighted to announce that they have not only retained their Investors in People accreditation for the 15th consecutive year but they have been awarded Silver Accreditation. This news comes after Parent Company Expotel were also re-accredited with Bronze Accreditation in Dec 2010.

Investors in People offers a practical, flexible and easy to use tool for improving business performance and competitiveness through good practice in people management.

An organisation that has achieved Investors in People has been successful in adopting and maintaining its three fundamental principles: Plan – developing strategies to improve the performance of the organisation, from business goals to leadership strategies; Do – implementing those strategies, taking action to improve the performance of the organisation; Review – evaluating and adjusting those strategies, measuring their impact on the performance of the organisation.

Venues Event Management received excellent feedback from the assessor. Some of the major strengths identified included:
• The enthusiasm, passion and pride
• Effective communication, company values, inclusiveness and consultative approach
• Openness, honesty and approachability
• Employees drive to achieve personal ambitions and to realise their potential
• Acting promptly to solve issues
• 12 week induction training programme
• Evidence of knowledge sharing

Kate Wyatt, Operations and HR Director commented: “Back in 1996, we were the first agency to be awarded Investors in People and we have continued to put great importance on the recruitment and development of our staff. To receive Silver is a great achievement and demonstrates our commitment to continuous improvement”

Claire Levey, the Investors in People Assessor added: “Venues Event Management thoroughly deserves its advanced recognition as it is just one of those companies that naturally stands out from the crowd.  Investors in People is an invaluable tool but to produce real results it has to be in the hands of people who are genuinely committed to adopting best practice principles and continuous improvement.  Chief Executive Anita Lowe’s vision, boundless energy and attention to detail inspires everyone who works for her. She has created an enviable culture where people are immensely loyal, passionate about the business, enjoy their jobs and are focussed on exceeding client expectations. Success has been achieved through effective recruitment, training and retaining the right people. Long may it continue!”

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Events management company KDM Events is predicting a 50% hike in annual turnover to £1.6m following a buoyant first half.

KDM commercial director Nicky Wrighte said the firm expects profits will “definitely be up” for the year as the style of new business has enabled it to sustain its average margin.

The first six months of 2011 have seen KDM pick up an array of new accounts. In June and July it ran its first event for Bupa Care Homes, while a roadshow for boiler manufacturer Baxi pulled in revenue. The firm also achieved preferred partner status with Portman Conferences and Events, a division of Portman Travel.

In the first half of 2011, KDM ran 200 events and is predicting a 50% annual increase in total events. The last six months have seen KDM recruit two new members of staff, and the firm is also hunting for a new account director.

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New Functionality Automates Manual Processes for Member-based Organizations;Helps Associations Grow Membership and Boost Retention

Cvent, the world’s largest cloud-based provider of event management, venue selection and web survey solutions, today unveiled a new membership management module that will help associations and non-profits more effectively manage members, grow their membership base and boost retention.

“We developed this functionality largely based on the requests we received from our clients, including thousands of member-based organizations,” said Chuck Ghoorah, Cvent’s Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “We saw a huge demand for a membership management module within the Cvent system that would eliminate the need to use several different applications. With this new functionality, Cvent will serve as a one-stop shop for our clients’ event, web survey and membership management needs.”

Cvent’s new membership management module enables administrators to collect membership dues either on their own or in conjunction with event fees, send automated membership renewal reminder emails, generate unique IDs for new members, and create a web portal where members can connect with each other and oversee their member profile and membership history.

Organizations leveraging the membership management module will be uniquely positioned to:

• Grow their membership numbers by offering sign-up and renewal during registration, or directly from their website;
• Maximize member retention rates by incentivizing members to renew early with time-related discounts and through automated email reminders based on membership type and expiration date; and
• Secure future sponsorship opportunities by providing current sponsors with direct access to detailed reports, which quantify program successes and further illustrate the value of the sponsorship opportunity.

“By coupling membership management with our suite of event management, site selection and web survey solutions, we can provide associations with an offering that is unmatched in the industry,” added Ghoorah. “With Cvent, our clients can have the best of both worlds.”

About Cvent

Founded in 1999, Cvent is the world’s largest meetings and event management technology company and has over 800 employees worldwide. Cvent offers web-based software for meeting site selection, online event registration, event management, e-mail marketing, and web surveys, and helps over 90,000 users in 40 countries manage hundreds of thousands of events, surveys and e-mail campaigns. The company has processed over $2 billion in online payments and has managed over 30 million event registrations and survey responses for its clients. Cvent’s client base ranges from small non-profits to large corporations, and includes over 30 companies from the Fortune 100. A leading authority on Strategic Meetings Management (SMM), Cvent’s technology has been used to implement SMM programs around the world.

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Events constitute a very useful source of information that must be utilized in any business to find the facts and make decisions. There are many laws that makes it mandate for system administrator or organizations to maintain and review logs properly. Today, many corporations are legally bound to maintain and proactively evaluate log and events data in a self-assessment process. However, are you one of those who still consider it as a tedious task and avoid maintaining it properly? In case, your answer is yes, then Lepide Event Log Manager is one such effective tool that could help you in simplifying the tasks involved in events management.

As every event that gets logged is stored in text files such as W3C logs, this Lepide Event Log manager permits you in having centralized and effective management of Windows and W3C event logs. It provides the convenient solution for administrators in meeting-up the network security and compliance standards as per HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, and PCI compliance standards.

It is one of its own kinds of software that –

1)   Automates events collection from various log file locations.
2)   Makes events browsing a relatively easy job by providing a single user interface for the major types of events.
3)   Provides real-time alerts about events generated in a computer or a group of computers.
4)   Facilitates in creating and managing queries that may further assist in storing complete information about any specific event generated on a computer.
5)   Allows in performing a systematic recording of computer events taking place within the system or the whole network.
6)   Provides extensive security analysis report through log filtration.

This Lepide Event Log Manager not just protects organization from regretful incidents but even plays a key role in stopping those from happening right at the first place. In one way, this tool helps organization from losing money in terms of working hours. Another key advantage that organization could gain in using this event log manager is having a employee performance metrics report. In fact, it has got the great ability to provide the real time event monitoring through alert creation and this could help in monitoring behavior for performance appraisal purpose. Perhaps, it is one such application that could help organizations investing their resources and money where they are most needed.

Try Trial Version

This Lepide Event Log Manager is also available in a full-featured free trial version. It can be successfully used to monitor events for one computer connected trough a network for the first 7 days after installation. Additionally, for first 7 days the free trial version of Lepide Event Log Manager allows generating one report, one alert, and one query. To enjoy the benefits of this software further, full and licensed version of this event log manager needs to be purchased. You can download free version from here http://www.lepide.com/event-log-manager.html  .

Company Profile

Lepide Software is a product development company and well known for providing effective data recovery solution for both enterprise and home users. Established in the year 2004, the company has constantly released and offered various best-selling data recovery tools. It has registered a strong growth at the rate of 200 percent annually for the same period.

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Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has acquired Event Travel Management (ETM), its third acquisition in just over a year, in a bid to deliver “long term sustainable corporate growth”.

CTM have paid an initial $8.5 million, rising by a further $4.1m if targets are hit in the nine month period to June 30.

The acquisition is effective from October 1.

Melbourne-based ETM, formed in 2001, has an annual sales turnover of $70m and is described as a “boutique-style” corporate travel and event management company.

It will be “a strong strategic fit”, CTM said.

“ETM Group will add significant depth to CTM’s corporate specific services with its complementary MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Event Travel) and VIP leisure offerings,” CTM managing director, Jamie Pherous, said.

The deal, which has been 12 months in the making, is expected to help the corporate travel firm achieve its forecasted revenue growth of 30% to 40% for the 2012 financial year.

A large proportion of that growth is predicted to come from MICE, estimated to be worth over $2 billion annually in Australia, according to CTM.

While ETM’s corporate and leisure divisions will be absorbed into CTM from October 1, its MICE departments will retain its name, operating nationally with CTM’s existing division under the ETM brand.

“CTM not only has the structure to support ETM’s clients and people but also has the client base to leverage our expert events services across Australia and New Zealand,” ETM group director, David Hummerston, said.

Cavalier Travel and Travelcorp also recently joined CTM’s ranks, hitting individual targets for the first six months of 2011 (Travel Today August 2).

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Event management professionals now have an event planned for them. From industry veterans to freelance event planners, PR and marketing professionals, ad executives and entertainers, members of this special events business community have automatically earned themselves VIP status to an event that is unprecedented in the Caribbean region.

On August 6 and 7, the Banquet and Conference Centre of Movie Towne, Port-of-Spain will be transformed into a networking hub, where event professionals and industry suppliers will gather for the region’s first ever Caribbean Special Events and Meetings Expo.

This event is an initiative of the Event Management Institute (EMI) Caribbean Limited – a company that has been doing its part in ensuring the growth and development of the event management industry in the Caribbean.

Event professionals can indulge in a plethora of showcases from exhibitors of all spheres of the event management industry and gain access to a wide base of event companies, service suppliers and other essential event management resources.

The Caribbean Special Events and Meetings Expo (TCSEME) will foster opportunities for business to business joint ventures and strategic partnerships as well as introduce the Caribbean market to international event companies and service suppliers as a viable new market for business.

In addition to its objective for positioning Trinidad and Tobago as a top destination for Business Tourism, the Caribbean Special Events and Meetings Expo aims to promote the importance of innovation as an engine for growth and development of special events industry within the CARICOM region.

This echoes the vision of Francola John, Founder and Managing Director of EMI Caribbean Limited, who in 2007, with the establishment of her company, set out to give her contribution to this exciting field that has seen exponential growth in the past decade.

“Trinidad and Tobago is positioning itself to be the meetings and conference capital of the Region. We all have a part to play in ensuring that we promote our twin island as the place to meet both for business and for leisure. This requires us to be innovative and creative.

“As is done in other parts of the world such as US, Canada and Europe, TCSEME aims to be the catalyst to generate economic growth in the Caribbean Region in what is a billion dollar industry. At TCSEME 2011 Trade Show, you’ll not only find new ideas and creative tools, you’ll also meet leading local and international event suppliers who have everything you need to make sure your event is a huge success. TCSEME exhibitors will be showcasing the latest event products and services such as lighting, decor, staging, gifts and giveaways, creative services, entertainment, catering ware, florals and so much more. You’ll meet and connect with suppliers and find innovative ways to make your events more exciting, more effective and more affordable.” Francola said.

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Finally Event Management professionals can have an event that was planned just for them. From industry veterans to freelance event planners, PR and Marketing professionals, ad executives and entertainers, members of this special events business community have automatically earned themselves VIP status to an event that is unprecedented in the Caribbean region. On August 6 and 7, the Banquet and Conference Centre of MovieTowne, Port-of-Spain, will be transformed into a networking hub, where event professionals and industry suppliers will gather for the region’s first ever Caribbean Special Events and Meetings Expo (TCSEME). This event is an initiative of the Event Management Institute (EMI) Caribbean Ltd—a company that has been doing its part in ensuring the growth and development of the event management industry in the Caribbean.

Event professionals can indulge in a plethora of showcases from exhibitors of all spheres of the event management industry, and gain access to a wide base of event companies, service suppliers and other essential event management resources. TCSEME will foster opportunities for business to business joint ventures and strategic partnerships, as well as introduce the Caribbean market to international event companies and service suppliers as a viable new market for business. In addition to its objective for positioning T&T as a top destination for Business Tourism, the expo aims to promote the importance of innovation as an engine for growth and development of special events industry within the Caricom region.

This echoes the vision of Francola John, founder and managing director of EMI Caribbean Ltd, who in 2007, with the establishment of her company, set out to give her contribution to this exciting field that has seen exponential growth in the past decade. “Trinidad and Tobago is positioning itself to be the meetings and conference capital of the region. We all have a part to play in ensuring that we promote our twin island as the place to meet both for business and for leisure. This requires us to be innovative and creative. “As is done in other parts of the world such as US, Canada and Europe, TCSEME aims to be the catalyst to generate economic growth in the Caribbean region, in what is a billion dollar industry. 
“TCSEME exhibitors will be showcasing the latest event products and services such as lighting, decor, staging, gifts & giveaways, creative services, entertainment, catering ware, florals and so much more.
“You will meet and connect with suppliers, and find innovative ways to make your events more exciting, more effective and more affordable,” Francola concluded.

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