San Mateo, CA, July 9, 2024 — Onriva, a leading provider of innovative solutions for corporate travel management, has announced its strategic partnership with Bizly, a pioneering platform for booking meetings and events. Through this collaboration, Onriva will introduce new meeting and event services that offer unparalleled savings, control, and convenience to its extensive client network.

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new addition to our team! Amy Rixmann has joined Bizly as our new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). This marks a pivotal moment in Bizly’s journey, highlighting our unwavering commitment to growth and innovation within the Meetings and Events (M&E) industry.

Hotel lobbies are perfectly suited to small, informal meetings, with comfortable seating and light refreshments. But add a dash of cool and you’ve just put a special vibe to the meeting, given it the X factor. Some of ’s favorite hotels have chic, buzzy lobbies where you can do just that:

Breakfast can be the best meeting of the day: clear heads, no interruptions and conversation sparked by plenty of caffeine. For the perfect power breakfast, who’s in the room matters as much as what’s on your plate. Here are some of NYC’s best.

Convene in any of these chic Chicago hotel lobbies to move business forward or just catch up with your team, clients or business contacts. Whether you’re there for a meet-up during the day or a gathering after hours, these spaces are all cozy yet open enough for relaxed conversations, with seating on couches or around tables. You just might think of your next business plan or build some much-needed team morale while you’re at it. No pressure!

Welcome to Bizly’s Quick Fire Interviews with Industry Leaders and Luminaries! Keep watching our blog to get quick personal and professional insights from various leaders and industry influencers.

By Ron Shah, Founder and CEO of Bizly

The immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the business travel industry literally overnight.

Kevin Iwamoto | Chief Strategy Officer

Bizly’s takeaways from business travel’s most tech-forward show

Since introducing Bizly to select enterprise customers last year, we’ve been hard at work advancing our product and supporting thousands of events.

We sell the problem we are solving, not the product

With a product rooted in discovery, the sky’s the limit.

Adding a CSR event to a board meeting or team offsite can have a profound effect. Here’s how to do it easily.

Why this $100 Billion spend category still falls into the wasteland of general T&E, and how to fix it.

Take your next offsite meeting to the next level with this expert’s advice.

Simon Sinek makes the case for banning phones at meetings. But what does research say?

How to stay mobile by playing it smart.

Use these calendar tricks to ensure your meeting starts on time — with all invitees present.

Productivity on the road is possible, with a few tricks. By Arielle Crane

When your phone meeting is lame or a time-suck, it’s due to a leadership fail.

Bring these creativity-enhancers to your next meeting, and watch ideas and connectedness take off. By Arielle Crane

Heading out for a meeting? Here’s why you should.

A Googler-turned-comedian shares her witty perspectives on how you too can look smarter at meetings— and fake everyone else out.

Become a marker-wielding superstar with these six simple strategies.

High-tech trappings won’t just make future meeting spaces cool; they’ll also make them more productive. By Matt Alderton

Do you consider hotel suites for meetings? In these six scenarios, a suite may be a smarter, more flexible choice than a small conference room.

Well-chosen audio is an ultra-efficient way to stay current.

Every company who is subject to the Shelter in Place protocols during this COVID-19 pandemic are using virtual meeting platforms more than usual.

Every aspect of planning meetings has been thrown into uncertainty for the better part of two years, but one thing is clear as we enter 2022: Demand is back.

Although hybrid events have been around for years, no one in the meetings industry could have imagined how quickly and fully businesses would adapt to a virtual ecosystem once the pandemic was upon us, or how critical our online experience would become.

Quick fire Interview with Lisa Palmeri, Vice President and Principal Consultant for Intent Strategy Group (ISG), a consulting division of Meetings & Incentives Worldwide

New complexities for both planners and hoteliers are emerging as a result of greater societal work around equity, inclusion, and belonging; the increasingly evident impact of climate change

Happy Golden Anniversary to Meeting Professionals International

Quick Fire Interview with Joan Eisenstodt, Chief Strategist and Principal at Eisenstodt Associates, LLC - Hospitality & Meetings Industry Consultant & Trainer

Looking Forward to 2023? Bizly’s Chief Customer Officer, Kevin Iwamoto GLP, GTP, shares his top Five Things to Consider

Small and simple meetings can represent up to 80% of a company’s overall events. With the current challenging environment, no one has the time, resources, or expertise to conceive, source, and implement an end-to-end small meetings program.

This case study highlights Mira Rosenzweig's successful implementation of a travel and small meetings program at Pinterest.

Bizly is now available to Cvent customers via an integration and a listing on the Cvent App Marketplace

Kevin is retiring from his current full time Chief Customer Officer and Head of Enterprise role and is moving into a more consultative Senior Advisor role for Bizly.

Case Study: Transforming Simple Meetings for a Large Health Insurance Company

Okta’s decision coming out of the pandemic to create a self-service technology-based strategy was a direct result of an internal involuntary coalition of program leaders.