Pharmaceutical and life sciences meeting managers are an intense and thoroughly professional niche of the meeting planning world, but is Pharma Forum all work and no play? No way. That would be a lost opportunity for sponsors to share innovative ...

So your client wants an innovation speaker. You might have an idea of what that means, but what does it mean to your client? People often use the word “innovation” when they actually mean creativity, leadership, entrepreneurship, or...

Today's guest post is by speaker, author, and one of my favorite Aussies Neen James. The lights came up as the person who was about to interview a living legend slowly walked onto the stage at an industry conference. Our anticipation turned to...

Say your conference uses a blind speaker selection process to ensure you get a fair, diverse group of speakers. Then you accept as a speaker a guy who in addition to having created an experimental computing platform ends up having a pretty well-k...

It’s not enough for speakers to just show up and speak—even if they’re great on stage. To provide an exceptional audience experience, meeting planners and speakers need to work together in partnership, paying attention to details...

Experts have long been sought after as great speakers to share their unique, hands-on experiences in ways that directly relate to and benefit different audiences. Today, the caliber and diversity of experts available as professional speakers has...

At the 2016 Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Winter Symposium, a panel addressed the idea of “trends” versus “fads” in meetings, technology, and more. When the discussion gravitated toward what’s...

Meeting executives hire speakers to educate or to entertain; the best speakers do both. It has become common practice for organizations that retain meeting speakers to enter into agreements with them outlining the terms under which their...