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At a recent event, Valerie Bihet’s attendees had been up since 3 a.m. The group had been flying from Seattle to Miami when they ran into a variety of travel issues—leaving them tired, hungry, and frustrated when they…

Inflated prices have kept some incentive groups from visiting North America, according to Valerie Bihet of the VIBE Agency. “Traveling from Europe to the U.S. is too expensive for many these days,” she said. “U.K. companies…

Similarly, it’s a good idea to keep fish-based ceviche off the menu at your outdoor gathering. “You can put it on ice but the risk of food poisoning is still very high once it’s in the sun since it’s exposed, even when on ice…

The parameters around what you can and can’t do are different for internal vs. external medical audiences. How you engage these attendees also varies. Valerie Bihet, owner and meeting planner with VIBE Agency, will…

Valerie Bihet is founder and CEO of VIBE, an agency based in Miami that produces in-person, virtual, hybrid, and meta- verse events. “We used to be so focused on in-person that the event industry lagged behind…

Valerie Bihet is founder and CEO of VIBE, an agency based in Miami that produces in-person, virtual, hybrid, and meta- verse events. “We used to be so focused on in-person that the event industry lagged behind…

Today we’d like to introduce you to Valerie Bihet. Hi Valerie, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself. My professional career is a result of a series of events…

Once the dust has settled—but not too long after the event wraps—host a more formal debrief with your team, suggests Valerie Bihet, owner of VIBE Agency in Miami. “After the event, I first sit…

Valerie Bihet, of the VIBE Agency, discusses how she honed her skills over the pandemic to now be in position to overcome the challenges that the new meetings/events landscape brings.

You can be the best event planner in the world and have wonderful clients who love you, but none of that will matter if you don’t have a solid team of vendors to work with. Vendors and planners…

I would say you need to have a strong network. I have been lucky because when I used to work for Clement, as I mentioned before, on this day, I was traveling a lot in a lot of countries in a lot of cities, and I build my…

The event industry has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, and for Valerie Bihet, founder and CEO of VIBE Agency, it has been a rollercoaster ride of challenges and triumphs. Valerie never imagined that she would become an entrepreneur…

The past nearly three years have been trying times for meeting and event planners, to put it mildly. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic brought things to a grinding halt in 2020, and though it seems we’re heading out…