Category: Meeting Matters
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Washington DC with FICP
Read more: Washington DC with FICPby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua From New York to DC The moody June of New York City followed me to the Finance and Insurance Conference Planners’ (FICP) Education Forum in DC, adding soaring temperatures to the on-going atmospheric instability.…
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How to get the most from IMEX15
Read more: How to get the most from IMEX15by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua If life is a vicissitudinous roller coaster (that word again, Garry!), then the older you get, the more rapid the journey because by then it’s all downhill! That’s certainly how it seems to…
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Why meetings really matter: reflections on NAMID
Read more: Why meetings really matter: reflections on NAMIDby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The inaugural North America Meetings Industry Day (NAMID) on Thursday 16 April was an opportunity to put our industry in the spotlight and, in particular, to underline the considerable economic benefit that we…
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Meetings Industry Fiction: The Tasting
Read more: Meetings Industry Fiction: The Tastingby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua You could write a book about it! How often have meetings professionals said this to each other? We’re an industry with amazing stories that you couldn’t make up and we share them orally…
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Innovation in the Meetings Industry: Firmdale and Sundial
Read more: Innovation in the Meetings Industry: Firmdale and Sundialby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Scale The sheer scale of London as a destination makes it the perfect crucible for trying out new ideas and concepts in hospitality and MICE. Consequently it’s a rich source of inspiration for…
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Conducting a Good Site Inspection: it’s no joke!
Read more: Conducting a Good Site Inspection: it’s no joke!by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua An oldie but goldie … Most of us in the industry know the site inspection joke about the meeting planner who, due to over-crowding in heaven, is given the chance to check out…
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Brand New Horizons in Meetings and Events
Read more: Brand New Horizons in Meetings and Eventsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The proliferation of content The extraordinary proliferation of easily accessible content for meetings professionals makes it harder, rather than easier, to keep up to date with news and trends. You’re so overwhelmed by…
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Prove it! Why we need organisations like the Site Foundation
Read more: Prove it! Why we need organisations like the Site Foundationby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua From hands-on execution to hands-off strategy Following decades as a DMC and MICE agency, Patrick Delaney and I are now working as consultants / advisors on meetings, incentives, conferences and events under our…
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Hotels that do it differently
Read more: Hotels that do it differentlyby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The Sharing Economy The advent of the sharing economy has been game-changing for the hospitality industry with legions of global travellers abandoning what they consider the bland consistency of hotels for the bright…
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Start and end strongly: a master class in meeting planning from FICP14
Read more: Start and end strongly: a master class in meeting planning from FICP14by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Back in Hawai’i This year’s conference of the Finance and Insurance Conference Planners (FICP) took place at the magnificent 62 acre Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island, Hawai’i. It was FICP’s first…
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