Baby Boomers and Millennials in the working world share a need to travel for business, but how they go about it can vary, according to a study of 521 business travelers called, “Booking Behaviors: Helping Business Travelers Book Smarter.” Conduct...

Event management software company Certain Inc. and strategic sourcing platform Zentila have joined forces to give planners a complete tech tool for their strategic meetings management process. Using the combination of products takes planners from...

Etouches, a provider of cloud-based event management software, has acquired Inevention, a venue-sourcing platform for event planners. Etouches says the acquisition is part of a focus on its enterprise client base. While Inevention offers more than...

I recently had an epiphany on why something I can’t imagine wouldn’t be required—the strategic meeting management program (SMMP)—often is not. Do you agree with my conclusions?

Anthony Miller​Lanyon, the technology solutions company that added meeting and event management platforms (Active Network Business Solutions Group), group hotel booking software (Passkey), and a mobile app (Genie Connect) to its exist...

Life science and financial service companies must manage their meetings because of the regulatory requirements imposed on them by governments around the world. As a result, much of the meetings management attention has been focused on these two s...

For implementing an innovative global strategic meetings management program

There’s something very cathartic about sharing your pain with people who really get it—because it’s their pain too. So when pharmaceutical and other life sciences meeting managers get together at the annual Pharma Forum, co-organized by MeetingsN...

How much (electronic) ink have I spilled holding forth about savings and compliance being the rationales for the establishment of a meetings management program? Too much to quantify! But was I right? Well, at the time I wrote all those articles...