Changemakers 2022

Jul 07, 2022

Celebrating individuals whose initiative and innovation are moving their organizations and the meetings industry forward

Beyond Talk: Executing the Sustainability Journey

Jul 07, 2022

Stacey Sanchez, CMP, CMM, built an award-winning event sustainability program once. Now she’s out to do it again.

The Mover Behind AOTA’s Inspire

Jul 07, 2022

Changemaker Leslie Jones, American Occupational Therapy Association, met the uncertainty of the pandemic with improvements to the group’s biggest events. Here’s how she did it.

Human-Centered Event Design: 4 Steps to Success

Jul 06, 2022

These techniques ensure that both in-person and virtual audiences give more to a session, so they can get more from the session.

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Conquering the Confusion over Event Ticketing & Pricing in 2022

Jul 01, 2022

With budgets tightening, and costs rising, monetizing events, and assessing and proving their value to internal stakeholders has never been more important than it is today.

Technology to Make Attendee Feedback Accurate—and Fast

Jun 27, 2022

At the Montreal Convention Center, field tests of biometric equipment are capturing levels of participants’ engagement and excitement by monitoring their brain and heart activity as they move around a show.

Take Your Experience and Pay It Forward

May 27, 2022

The Special Event 2023 has opened its call for speakers, looking for experts in event design, technology, safety, and more.

2022 NFL Draft: Vegas Venues Steal the Scene

May 19, 2022

The stage sets that were located at Caesars Forum and Bellagio Resort & Casino for the National Football League's April 28-30 draft of top college players demonstrated interesting possibilities for meetings, conventions, and incentives. It was...

Fresh Ideas for When the Sizzle Matters

May 09, 2022

Looking for new ways to surprise and delight, thousands convened in Anaheim in early May for Catersource + The Special Event.

Something Else That’s Better In Person: Brainstorming

May 05, 2022

Academic research published in the journal Nature compares in-person and remote idea generation, and finds that too much focus might not be a good thing.