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Sep 16, 2025
BizBash
Across all of these trends, a common thread stands out: interactivity. As Valerie Bihet, founder of VIBE Agency in Miami, puts it: “People don’t just want someone to sing on stage for them. They want to interact in the space and be part of the entertainment…
Aug 7, 2025
Idaho Business Review
“When you plan a big event like a convention or expo, the venue really matters,” said Valerie Bihet, founder and director of VIBE Agency, an event design and destination management company based in Miami, Florida…
Jun 13, 2025
BizBash
If you’re planning high-stakes gatherings across the U.S., you’ve likely felt it: the undercurrent of hesitation. Visa delays, political tension…
Nov 1, 2024
Small Market Meetings
In recent years, rising costs and falling memberships have led some organizations to look at co-locating their conferences or tradeshows to boost event profits. In theory, co-locating cuts costs, boosts attendance…
Sep 6, 2024
Eventex
The strategic objective to transcend the boundaries of traditional gala dinners is clear and ambitious. The event’s creativity is exceptional, with a unique concept that reimagines the traditional gala dinner…
Aug 7, 2024
Northstar Meetings Group
In this webinar, industry experts will share strategies for thoughtfully increasing your attendee base — and ensuring new participants will want to come back year after year.
Jul 2, 2024
expopass
Get your passports and pencils ready, planners, because today, we’re diving into the globe-trotting world of destination event planning! Our recent webinar, Smart Planning for Destination Events, was hosted by…
Jun 17, 2024
The Meetings Magazines
Valerie Bihet, director of the VIBE Agency, which plans events throughout the world, first started using facial recognition software back in 2018 and found it hugely helpful for live, in-the-moment response to content being presented…
May 21, 2024
Bizbash
“Back when I produced events for Disneyland Paris, I would use our costumed characters to lead guests from one area to the next. It really helped tap into the nostalgic aspect of doing an event at Disney…
May 8, 2024
Mergermarket
VIBE Agency, a producer of in-person, virtual, hybrid and metaverse events, has begun evaluating a possible outside investment or sale, said Valerie Bihet, CEO and sole owner. Founded in 2004, the Miami-based…
Mar 20, 2024
Bizbash
Designing your next conference or destination event with the bleisure travel model (i.e., a business trip that includes a few days before…
Feb 1, 2024
Success
All that research above points to the necessity of feeling like you are at an in-person meeting. Valerie Bihet, founder of VIBE Agency, an event production company in Miami, decided to get creative to overcome the Zoom fatigue…
Jan 9, 2024
Carol Roth
This year we’ll be starting a “Compliment Jar” in the VIBE office. How it works: Encourage team members to drop anonymous compliments or words of appreciation for each other into the jar after each of our events or…
Jan 3, 2024
Bizbash
“I think there is going to be a bigger focus on cities with tech and innovation at the forefront rather than big cities that draw traditional tourist requests. Austin and Nashville, for example, both saw more interest ths…
Nov 3, 2023
BizBash
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…
Oct 2, 2023
Northstar Meetings Group
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…
Jul 7, 2023
Martha Stewart
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…
Jun 29, 2023
Smart Meetings
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…
Apr 1, 2023
InfoToday
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…
Apr 1, 2023
SPLASH
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…
Mar 9, 2023
Voyagemia.com
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…
Mar 9, 2023
BizBash
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…
Mar 6, 2023
Feb 13, 2023
HopSkip
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.
Feb 7, 2023
Smartmeetings.com
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…
Feb 1, 2023
PurplePass
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…
Jan 31, 2023
Yahoo Finance
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…
Jan 20, 2023
Corporate & Incentive Travel Magazine
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…
Sep 12, 2022
Eventpros.com
Budgeting experience & vendor relationships make all the difference 1. Budgeting. More times than not, your proposed budget doesn’t account for hidden expenses…
Jul 25, 2022
TheMeetingMagazines.com
As the owner/director/meeting planner at Vibe, an event design and destination management company, Valerie Bihet says the digital transformation that the pandemic forced the events industry to undergo has…