Open Forum

Happy Monday, it's time for the Huddle of the Week post!

The Cvent Excellence Awards is a global program that honors the best in the meetings and events industry. It is open to organizations of all sizes across industries, so big or small you could be a winner in one of our exciting categories! We have plenty of categories for Cvent users to submit for, you can even submit for as many as you'd like at the same time. Take a look at all of this year's categories here: Event Professional Categories and Hospitality Professional Categories.

• What would you look forward to the most about attending the Cvent Excellence Awards? Seeing the Cvent Management Team! 
• What would you like to see at the awards ceremony?  I attended last year and thought it was a great ceremony, there isn't anything I can think of to add or change the current format. Excellent event! 

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Colleen Beck
Director of Sales & Marketing
The Westin Tampa Bay
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• What would you look forward to the most about attending the Cvent Excellence Awards? Getting to hear great stories of how others utilize cvent, great entertainment is always a plus!
• What would you like to see at the awards ceremony? I won't be in attendance :( but always great to see a highlight put on the customers!

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Rachel
NJ
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• What would you look forward to the most about attending the Cvent Excellence Awards?
  • Hearing from people who have used Cvent for incredibly successful and/or creative ways to enhance their event or their customer's event. I love to hear those stories
• What would you like to see at the awards ceremony?
  • I'm just hoping for the opportunity to see the event in person again - it's been a couple of years and it's so much more grand to be there in the room. 

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Tori Martinez
Event Technology Specialist
Direct Travel
United States
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• What would you look forward to the most about attending the Cvent Excellence Awards?
  • It's a fun way to celebrate the power users and champions, and is a nice little "fancy" event in our overall experience
• What would you like to see at the awards ceremony?
  • Keep it "fancy"!

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Lori Wildman
Marketing Director
DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Inc.United States
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I would enjoy seeing everyone that won and hearing their success stories. I've never been so I'm not sure, maybe a wide variety of awards to not just the planners but also the venues. 

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Teresa James
Director of Sales and Marketing
DoubleTree Gainesville
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• What would you look forward to the most about attending the Cvent Excellence Awards? I love seeing how different companies leverage the platform based on their needs
• What would you like to see at the awards ceremony? Additional information in implementation and overcoming challenges/objections by the winners and nominees.  This is probably best with additional information presented on-demand post-ceremony.  There is so much benefit seeing how other companies are using the technology (even in non-conventional ways), especially the companies who had to overcome people set in their way (such as the ones who depend on paper handouts).

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Julie-Michelle Davis, CMP
Meetings Manager
Amex GBT - USA
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