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Probably 90% of my event planner colleagues and I laugh when someone asks, “did you know you wanted to be an event planner when you grew up?”

Overwhelmingly the answer is no. Most of us had very different career paths lined up. We just fell in love with the industry, the people, the job.

But, that makes it sound like a career no one would want. That is definitely not the case. Employment of meeting, convention, and event planners is

Pathable loves hearing from planners and suppliers in the field. Today Teagen, a planner with Shop4Pop in the United Kingdom, is sharing insights about how to choose an effective event hashtag. Have a worthwhile event management strategy or tactic you’d love to share with our audience? Send us a note and let’s chat! 

Social media can have a profound effect on the number of attendees at an event. With hashtagging features making it even easier to

A recent TechCrunch article and rumors from Apple’s developer conference have people in our industry asking: are event apps dead?

Short answer: no. And the longer answer: still no. Let’s dig in why…

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What are some of the most valuable event apps tips out there? The ones that don’t just look to the baseline features, but the options that allow an event planner to customize and personalize their meeting or conference. And stop doing as much manual or redundant work.

As writer Savannah Osburn says, “Nearly every event app’s baseline features include meeting agendas, venue maps, and sponsor information, but today’s technology makes it possible for planners to track attendance, organize virtual competitions,

Pathable’s leadership and development team is in the process of imagining the next phase of event apps and conference websites for meetings and conferences. As we’ve been researching, discussing various ideas and concepts, and developing ideas on the whiteboard, we discovered that we wanted to open up the conversation a little larger to hear from industry experts on how innovation and imagination are changing events and hospitality. One topic that continues to rise to the top is around event and