Mark your calendar—March 1 is the nomination deadline for the new IMEX–GMIC Innovation in Sustainability Award...

Accommodating your meeting attendees’ food allergies and food preferences can seem daunting. Here are some quick switches that you and the executive chef can make to create easy meals and snack breaks that avoid common food allergens. (Click here...

Your meeting is quickly approaching and you want to ensure your general session presentations won’t be yawn-inducing, generic PowerPoints or Keynote slideshows, but rather aim to truly captivate your audience and move them to action. So how can y...

Your association’s leadership takes to the stage to whip the audience into action about an issue that will directly affect their business. Everyone’s revved up and ready to let their local and federal elected officials know their mind. But if they...

While the health of any trade show is dependent in large part on the health of the business sector it serves—and in these early days of 2017 and the Trump presidency, many changes are afoot that could affect sectors positively and negatively—ther...

Christine Hilgert, CMP, senior vice president of meetings, Meeting ExpectationsDrones can add some , but as is true for most new technologies, there are tricks to doing it right. Here are seven key things to know when contemplating using drones a...

Christine Hilgert, CMP, senior vice president of meetings, Meeting ExpectationsDrones, those remote-controlled quadrocopters you probably have seen and heard whining overhead—have come a long way from their early role as solely military tools. Th...

Meetings. Events. Deadlines. Audiences. How’s a person to get it all done and still have time for all the “good stuff” like family, friends, and personal time? Impossible? Not at all. But you do have to develop a strategy, a structure, and a syst...