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Sometimes belt buckling also means increasing power in numbers through reach. At PCMA (Professional Conference Managers Association) the biggest news was made by the Association itself. A slew of acquisitions, mergers and partnerships were announced. For starters,...
Event planners will be learning to work with AI tools. At first, it will be primarily as idea generators, whether that’s color and design schemes, or even agenda planning. Case in point, this week I asked ChatGPT to create an event agenda for a high tech agricultural...
AI got $1.37B of investments last year. It’s a bright spot in a year when the tech industry has right-sized, and seemed a bit lackluster. Here are a few newones worth watching: Runway is a suite of tools that lets you create and edit images. Using text commands...
After last week’s newsletter, some of you wrote to ask for more information about spatial computing. Spatial computing’s definition is sort of like the definition of porn, you know it when you see it. More and more companies are using the “S” word in their...
Our team just returned from a glorious CES show… a return to an almost normal where everything from advances in space tech, to a self-driving baby carriage, to pee analyzers you place in your toilet, to tractors that know a weed from a wheat stalk. Plus enough smart...
I confess. We wince every time we get a production firm’s quote. I mean, how much can holding a camera and chopping up some video cost? We found this illustration on Craig “Burnie” Burns' LinkedIn page. Can you tell he’s a retired gaffer? While Burns’ prices...
Ken Holsinger, Freeman’s SVP of Strategy, was kind enough to share his internal research on millennials with our group. It’s super-important to understand what millennials want, regardless of what business you’re in, because they are quickly in line for succession… of...
Marc Andreessen's prophecy that “software will eat the world” became the mantra of VC culture. But software has a tiny gut compared to the voracious appetite of AI tools. AI is rapidly becoming a part of our daily diet and we are about to experience a new wave of...
There is no better person to look to for a summary of the events industry than Miguel Neves, the Editor in Chief at Skift Meetings. He reports from Event Tech Live London 2022, the largest gathering of event tech pros and platforms in Europe, that while “gathering...
YugaLabs, Doodles, Boneys, Akus, and Deadfellaz are just a few of the buzzed-about NFT collections making waves last week at NFT.NYC, the biggest non-fungible token event. The timing was less than auspicious. The crypto market is unraveling, transactions for NFTs are...
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