Like any meeting planner worth his salt, Barry Wolpa is obsessed with details. For a Genworth Financial Inc. dinner at the Great Wall of China, Wolpa, vice president of meetings and incentive trips, even consulted a lunar calendar. He wanted the...
Event architecture. Visual dynamics. Kinetic engineering. Return on event. Dianne Devitt, CMP, president of The DND Group Inc., New York, takes meeting and event planning to an entirely new level. She passionately believes that the only way...
When Fidelity Investments' internal audit group held its annual two-day educational meeting last October, attendees got to direct the action. And be stars, too...
The green meetings scene heated up this summer with the launch of a second industry association dedicated to the cause. The new Association for Green Meetings & Events (www.agmeinc.org) has attracted 236 members and more than 75,000 visitors...
Congratulations to Cargill Inc., Wayzata, Minn., which was recently named the Overall Best Recognition Culture by Recognition Professionals International. The company — the country's largest privately held employer with over 160,000 employees —...
Early in July, the hospitality industry was rocked by Marriott International’s announcement that second-quarter profits fell by 24 percent and that revenue per available room, or RevPar, would decrease by 1 percent in the United States in 2008...
Worktopia Inc., an online booking engine that offers meeting planners the ability to search, compare, and book simple meetings and group accommodations online in real time, announced its Universal Meeting Solution at the National Business Travel...