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Most planners think their job is booking venues. 🏩

Kim Elpers thinks it's building operating systems.

The founder of CorConnections built a woman-led, minority-led event production and fulfillment company on one idea: stop producing one-off events and start building scalable ecosystems that run all year.

In our latest Planner Perspective, she breaks down the playbook:
→ Why your vendor network is your real product
→ How to design attendee experiences as a journey, not a highlight reel
→ The trend that's quietly reshaping the industry (hint: it's not just AI)
→ The work-life balance advice every planner needs to hear

Read it here 👇
https://hubs.li/Q04pl1sW0

🚨 Introducing Market Insights: Hopskip's new hotel plan 🎉

For the first time, hotels on Hopskip have access to real market intelligence: demand trends, planner behavior, and competitive benchmarks pulled directly from actual platform data. 📊

What you get:
→ See what planners in your market are sourcing and what programs look like
→ Benchmark your ADR, response time, and win rate against similar properties
→ Know what contract terms are winning in your market
→ AI-powered callouts in every section — no analysis skills required

Available at $3,500/year. Included in Premium.

See your market. Compete stronger. Win more business.

Get started today: https://hubs.li/Q04lygGV0

We're grateful to have two incredible legal experts joining us for our upcoming webinar around AI & Events.

Barbara Dunn is a Partner & Owner at Barbara Dunn Law and has spent decades advising meeting planners and associations on event contracts and negotiations. 👩🏼‍⚖️

Kelly Bagnall is a Partner at Holland & Knight LLP and one of the most recognized attorneys working in the hotel and hospitality contracting space. 👩🏻‍⚖️

Together, they'll give both sides of the table, and it's going to be a candid conversation.

Topic: AI & Events — the do's and don'ts when it comes to planning, contracts, and legal documents.

Thursday, July 30 · 12:00pm EST · Free

Register today: https://hubs.li/Q04lLqhr0

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