Skift Meetings Awards 2024: Meet the Winners

TECH PROVIDERS

Category: Most Innovative Event Technology Product

Snapsight by Gevme | World’s First AI-Based Real Time Event Content Summarisation

Snapsight by Gevme is an advanced AI-powered event content summarization tool that processes real-time streaming content, delivering pivotal insights, summaries, and key takeaways in real time. With features like Key Takeaways and Idea Cloud, Snapsight simplifies complex information into digestible nuggets and visually represents core concepts.

Leveraging advanced language models and sophisticated NLP engines, it generates concise summaries in over 20 languages, allowing attendees to grasp the essence of each session without extensive note-taking irrespective of their native language. Attendees access these Snapsights via QR code scans, eliminating friction, saving time, and maximizing learning. Snapsight’s seamless integration ensures accessibility for all, empowering attendees to continue learning beyond the event.

TECH PROVIDERS

Category: Best Site-Sourcing Solution

Nowadays | AI Assistant for Corporate Event Planning

Nowadays’ mission is to simplify the process of bringing people together by creating a world where the joy of events is never overshadowed by the complexity of planning them; making memorable experiences accessible to everyone, everywhere through personalization, automation and management.

By taking an AI-driven approach that automates the tedious aspects of event planning, Nowadays are making the planning process accessible and efficient for both professionals and non-professionals.

TECH PROVIDERS

Category: Best Event Management Platform

Swoogo | A Hyper-Customizable Event Management Platform

Swoogo is an intuitive event management platform that delivers registration, marketing, and event logistics. Designed by and for event organizers, Swoogo’s hyper-customizable solution enables event organizers to build fearlessly.

Swoogo is defined by flexibility; a product that scales from easy, repeatable field dinners to multi-thousand person conferences.

HOTELS

Category: Best Hotel Chain (Outside the U.S.)

Marriott International

Marriott International’s unparalleled collection of 30+ leading brands and nearly 8,900 properties spanning 141 countries and territories gives meeting planners a variety of options to find the perfect destination and space for any meeting, event, convention, reunion and more – no matter the size or purpose.

Marriott’s innovative tools help streamline the process, with best-in-class associates tailoring every element to break away from the traditional and reimagine the complete event experience.

HOTELS

Category: Best Hotel Chain (U.S.)

Marriott International

Marriott International’s unparalleled collection of 30+ leading brands and nearly 8,900 properties spanning 141 countries and territories gives meeting planners a variety of options to find the perfect destination and space for any meeting, event, convention, reunion and more – no matter the size or purpose.

At Marriott, innovation transcends all aspects of the global business. From state-of-the-art technology, to focus on consumer demand and partnership, Marriott continues to launch new ideas to keep customers at the forefront of meetings and events.

HOTELS

Category: Best Hotel (Outside the U.S.)

Conrad Punta de Mita

For groups looking to host a destination event in a locale that’s steeped in rich culture and history, while also treating attendees to luxurious resort amenities, Conrad Punta de Mita is the perfect spot.

Situated along the lush Riviera Nayarit, the luxury resort offers more than 54,000 square feet of flexible event space, including the largest ballroom in the region, multiple indoor/outdoor venues, seven culinary concepts offering menus/spaces that pay tribute to the age-old techniques and flavors of the local region, spacious guest rooms with private balconies, 30,000 square feet of beachfront space, multiple pool decks, and more.

HOTELS

Category: Best Hotel (U.S.)

Conrad Los Angeles

Designed by legendary architect Frank Gehry, Conrad Los Angeles is a 305-room luxury hotel featuring bold and contemporary rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows; an elevated indoor/outdoor lobby; rejuvenating spa; private pool deck; more than 13,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor event space; and more.

The luxury hotel is also home to two original concepts and multiple food and beverage outlets from José Andrés and his team, including signature restaurant San Laurel.

Perfectly situated among some of the city’s most prominent cultural venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Broad, the property serves as a true destination within a destination.

HOTELS

Category: Best Hotel Event Space (Outside the U.S.)

JW Marriott Bengaluru Prestige Golfshire Resort & Spa

JW Marriott Bengaluru Prestige Golfshire is a luxury resort surrounded with golf course and stunning views of Nandi Hills. Located 20-minutes from the Bangalore International Airport, resort features 301 luxurious rooms, suites and villas complemented with six exceptional dining venues.

With majestic mountain & lake views the sprawling lawns spreads over 66,000 sq. ft. along with a 22,000 sq. ft. pillar-less convention center, complete with 14 break-out meeting rooms, setting this as a perfect meetings & event venue.

The recreation facilities include a state-of-the-art fitness center, yoga pavilion, steam, sauna, Family by JW activity area, Entertainment zone and an award-winning spa.

HOTELS

Category: Best Hotel Event Space (U.S.)

Marriott Marquis Houston

A sleek centerpiece in the heart of downtown, Marriott Marquis Houston’s distinctive features and exceptional spaces up the ante for meetings in the nation’s fourth-largest city.

Everything’s bigger in Texas, and that includes meetings. Marriott Marquis Houston boasts the city’s largest ballroom – nearly the size of a football field – and is easily divided into eight individual event spaces. With 52 event rooms, 2 ballrooms, and 37 breakout spaces, the 153,324 square feet of event space affords planners nearly unlimited possibilities for gatherings of up to 4,300 people.

Marriott Marquis Houston is directly connected to the George R. Brown Convention Center via a convenient skybridge providing more capabilities for citywide events.

HOTELS

Category: Best All-Inclusive Hotel Chain (Global)

Playa Hotels & Resorts

Playa Hotels & Resorts is a leading owner, operator and developer of all-inclusive resorts in prime beachfront locations in Mexico, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.

Playa currently owns and/or manages a total portfolio consisting of 24 resorts (9,027 rooms) under the following brands: Hyatt Zilara, Hyatt Ziva, Hilton All-Inclusive, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, Wyndham Alltra, Seadust, Jewel Resorts and The Luxury Collection.

Playa leverages years of all-inclusive resort operating expertise and relationships with globally recognized hospitality brands to provide a best-in-class experience and exceptional value to guests, while building a direct relationship to improve customer acquisition cost and drive repeat business.

OTHER SUPPLIERS

Category: Best Destination Marketing Organization (Outside the U.S.)

Destination Toronto

Toronto’s visitor economy is a vital economic engine for the city, generating $8.4 billion in visitor spending in 2023. Destination Toronto’s mandate is to reflect the breadth and diversity of Toronto’s people, places and culture to inspire residents and visitors to meet, visit and explore our city.

Operating in partnership with the City of Toronto and the Greater Toronto Hotel Association, Destination Toronto markets and promotes the city to attract visitors and major meetings and events and supports local businesses to maximize the opportunities of the visitor economy. For more information, please visit DestinationToronto.com.

OTHER SUPPLIERS

Category: Best Destination Marketing Organization (U.S.)

Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is charged with positioning Las Vegas as the undisputed global destination for leisure and business travel and manages the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The LVCVA is the official destination marketing organization for Las Vegas and earned accreditation as such by Destinations International (formerly known as DMAI) in 2007. The LVCVA also works to bring visitors to southern Nevada by promoting and sponsoring various special events, including two annual NASCAR Cup Series weekends, Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and the Las Vegas Bowl.

Las Vegas recently hosted Super Bowl LVIII this past February and is looking ahead to the next Formula 1 Heineken Las Vegas Grand Prix taking place Nov. 21-23, 2024.

OTHER SUPPLIERS

Category: Best Convention Center (Outside the U.S.)

ICC Sydney

International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) stands as an architectural marvel and a hub of global connectivity with striking contemporary design, leading technology, and multipurpose spaces, catering for the needs of accessible conventions, exhibitions and events.

When guests visit ICC Sydney, they experience much more than a venue. They experience an art gallery and cultural connection point, food gourmets and wine connoisseurs, an innovation platform, and a team of caring, passionate professionals.

Spanning 250,000sqm, ICC Sydney is Australia’s first fully integrated convention, exhibition and entertainment centre which can host three self-sufficient, major conventions concurrently, supported by 35,000sqm exhibition capacity an 8,000-seat theatre and tiered plenary theatres.

OTHER SUPPLIERS

Category: Best Convention Center (U.S.)

The Miami Beach Convention Center

The Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC) is the cornerstone of Miami Beach’s meetings, conventions, and trade show industries. A $640 million renovation from 2015-2020 saw a new 60,000-square-foot Grand Ballroom, 500,000 square feet of exhibition space, an expanded Grand Lobby, spacious pre-function areas, 84 breakout rooms, and 800 roof deck parking spots.

New spaces on the MBCC Campus, like the Rum Room restaurant and Venu meeting space provide planners a blend of historic ambiance and views of the Collins Canal and a new onsite headquarters hotel will open in 2026.

OTHER SUPPLIERS

Category: Best Cruise Line (Global)

Royal Caribbean International

Whether you are hosting a meeting, corporate event or incentive trip, Royal Caribbean offers planners customized event packages and the most unique venue spaces in the industry.

Imagine state-of-the-art venues that make your jaw drop. Team building thrills where bonding meets heart pumping. Dining that tantalizes tastebuds. Entertainment that leaves attendees on the edge of their seat. Accommodations that feel like the ultimate retreat. And bucket list destinations to brag about.

With Royal Caribbean, there’s no imagination required for corporate gatherings at sea.