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THIS WEEK IN EVENTS

5 Event Pros Share Their Favorite Vendors for Decor, Catering, Production and More

We're spotlighting stand-out vendors vested by fellow event pros.

15 New Venues for Hosting
Hybrid Events Throughout
North America

These studios across the United States and Canada offer state-of-the-art tech solutions for hosting hybrid and virtual gatherings.

7 Ways to Create a Sustainable Virtual
Event Future

If you were to hold a six-hour conference over Zoom, you would have saved up to 66% in CO2 emissions. But how do we make virtual events truly carbon neutral? Read on and uncover the impact of virtual events.
Learn more.

Event Budgets After COVID-19:
5 Key Areas Planners Will Need to Focus On

In this guest column, the founder and CEO of Safe Haus Group discusses how new event safety measures will affect planners' budgets—and how to prepare for it.

5 New Venues in Atlanta for Spring 2021 Meetings and Events

Take a peek at these buzz-worthy restaurants, hotels, meeting and event spaces and more that recently opened
in Atlanta.

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT

iVent

Every event you host with iVent means trees planted. iVent is the leading virtual and hybrid event platform with people in mind and a mission to make events carbon neutral. We offer a secure, customizable platform and in-house specialists that will make your event truly unique. Find out more!

INDUSTRY NEWS

NATIONAL: The Breast Cancer Research Foundation will host a virtual version of its Hot Pink Evening fundraiser on May 20. Elizabeth Hurley will host the show, which will begin at 8:00 p.m., with special guests Sir Elton John, Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Kathryn Gallagher and others.

PRA has partnered with health and screening platform SafeAccess to help event organizers easily create, maintain and communicate health and safety procedures. Event planners can use the system to download secure data reports on federal and local requirements, ensure all HIPAA privacy laws are being followed, deploy on-site COVID-19 tests and contact tracing solutions, set up walk-in bio-scanners to detect temperature and more.

HOUSTON: The new dual-brand hotel Holiday Inn Express Houston and Staybridge Suites Houston—Galleria Area opened last week. The centrally located, stylish new property offers two distinct lodging experiences under one roof and includes 319 rooms with 2,600 square feet of shared, flexible meeting and event space.

NEW YORK: Catering company Great Performances has opened a new 51,000-square-foot headquarters in The Bronx. Featuring a 19,000-square-foot kitchen plus a separate pastry kitchen, the complex also houses a warehouse, a design studio, support offices and The Sylvia Center, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching youth the connection between food and health.

ORLANDO/CENTRAL FLORIDA: Illume, an Asian-inspired lounge atop the JW Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa, will open May 21. The 150-seat venue has a 5,200-square-foot exterior and a 4,600-square-foot interior, plus views of the nightly Disney fireworks.

What's happening on the event scene in your city? Email us and share the news!