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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #15 Code2040 Summit
The annual summit aims to further racial equity in the tech industry.
Panels focused on topics such as intersectional leadership, using technology to combat workplace discrimination, and designing a more inclusive industry for black and Latinx communities.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #14 Microsoft Inspire
Format and housing shifts gave attendees more opportunities to network.
While some structured programming was eliminated, the 16,000 attendees still gathered for keynotes and evening entertainment.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #13 Western Veterinary Conference
The annual event for veterinarians boosted sponsor engagement through a trivia game and floor redesign.
New this year was a Learning Lounge with TED-style talks, strategically placed in the back to draw attendees through the floor.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #12 How Design Live
The conference builds a sense of community that extends well beyond the actual event.
Event highlights included an interactive journaling wall, a live design battle, and 10-minute speed coaching sessions.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #11 Mom 2.0
The parenting conference keeps its sponsor list small and focused.
“Google doesn’t do a lot of event sponsorships, but they value the type of attendees who are a part of the Mom 2.0 Summit, and the level of experience that Mom 2.0 offers as an event and as a community of parenting influencers year-round,” Pacini said.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #10 Google I/O
The conference’s after-party infuses tech and culture in headline-grabbing ways.
In one buzzy moment from Google I/O’s festival-style evening events, Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips performed a song accompanied by A.I.-enabled inflatable fruit.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #9 Epic International Summit
The new event boosts creativity by asking attendees to go tech free.
The goal of the event was to allow professionals from all disciplines—ranging from actors such as Ewan McGregor (pictured with summit founder Steve Ralph) to entrepreneurs and university deans—to disconnect from a tech-saturated world and embrace creativity.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #8 Emerge Americas
Strategic layout and registration changes resulted in massive social impact.
Armando Christian Perez, better known as the artist and entrepreneur Pitbull, returned as a keynote speaker.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #7 Staples Sales Conference
The meeting used a fun, competitive challenge to educate—and reassure—employees after a company restructuring.
The sales conference drew 4,000 guests in person and an additional 1,000 remotely. The general session featured a 250-foot panoramic LED screen.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #6 Collision Conference
The tech conference, held in Toronto for the first time, made big strides toward gender equality.
The conference emphasized its Women in Tech initiative, which had its own track and event series. Speakers included Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder and C.O.O. of Cloudflare; singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez; and Lindsey Turrentine, vice president of content for CBS Interactive.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #5 Summit L.A.
The ideas festival creates community through unexpected speaker pairings and a fully immersive campus.
Wellness classes take over studios and outdoor locations, while chefs host dinners at local restaurants and artists decorate the campus with a series of interactive art experiences and installations.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2019: #4 SAP Sapphire Now
Adopting a content-oriented “live-work-play” approach, planners aimed for a fun and productive conference.
At the center of Sapphire Now was the Central Showcase, a high-tech air travel-theme display designed to demonstrate how experiential data and operational data can merge to assist businesses.
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