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Can Encouraging Bleisure Travel Boost Millennial Conference Attendance?

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Here’s what to tout to get them to your next conference. Talking up the benefits of mixing a trip to your conference with a couple days of fun might get more of this demographic registered for your meetings. Indianapolis has joined the bike share revolution with the addition of 29 Indiana Pacers Bikeshare stations downtown.

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Match a City’s Perks with Your Attendees’ Interests

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The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) hosted its 100th annual meeting in Indianapolis June 28–July 2, 2019, knowing the sports-loving city would welcome the event and offer advantages over other cities. Headquartered in Indianapolis, NFHS is the national leadership organization for high school sports and activities.

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Thinking Beyond the Traditional Meeting Space

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How one organization utilized non-traditional venues for a creative, memorable conference experience. And that means rethinking the location of your next conference. While numerous cities are prioritizing this trend for meeting planners, Indianapolis has long been home to non-traditional spaces utilized for meetings and events.

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The Meeting of the Future is Green and Looks Like This

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Jessica Davis, director of the Office of Sustainability at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), took her first stab at a zero-waste event when IUPUI’s natatorium hosted the 2016 U.S. That’s exactly what Michael Bricker, chief innovator at People for Urban Progress (PUP), does. windmills.

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How to Maximize Social Media at Conferences

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Here’s how meeting planners, attendees, and convention and visitor bureaus are maximizing social media at conferences. While most organizers, attendees, and CVBs know to use hashtags on social media to promote a conference and foster online discussion, some groups are employing hashtags in innovative ways.

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Create Memorable Events That Leave Your Attendees In Awe

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And those attendees expect way more than a conference packed with traditional sessions. MPI’s World Education Congress (WEC) in June in Indianapolis was held entirely in a huge open-plan exhibit space at the Indiana Convention Center. No conference rooms. Innovation Village. They want an event to remember. Social Village.

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Food Trends That Captivate Meetings Attendees

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is a hotbed for innovative cuisine. “There’s a lot of mixing and mashing of cultures,” said Alan Sternberg, the executive chef at Indianapolis’ Cerulean , which focuses on contemporary, locally sourced, Midwest cuisine “designed to bring people together.” That’s great news for hungry conferencegoers.