EIBTM, an exhibition for the incentive, business travel, and meeting industry, is in its sixth year sponsoring the Worldwide Technology Watch, a competition to find the most innovative new technology in the meeting industry. The 2005 winner is a 3...

The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is laying its claim as the largest Wi-Fi — enabled conference center in the country. Recently completed, the wireless Internet service covers meeting and event spaces, indoors and out — 1.1...

I recently led a panel discussion at the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives' International Conference in Toronto, where my fellow industry magazine editors spoke of how bogged down they have become by e-mail. Most of it is from suppliers...

With more companies centralizing their meeting management and consolidating expenditures, the focus is primarily on larger meetings — those with more than 100 people and multiple room nights. Day meetings and meetings of fewer than 50 people often...

Planners who source meeting facilities using OnVantage's online database (www.mpoint.com) will now get information about some facilities' readiness for a cardiac emergency, through a new partnership with a provider of cardiac emergency readiness...

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When Lisa Palmeri sat on the OnVantage customer advisory board as a meeting professional from Abbott Laboratories, the group was in agreement that forming a consulting arm would be a good move for the meeting technology company. At the time, the...

EIBTM, an exhibition for the incentive, business travel, and meeting industry, is in its sixth year sponsoring the Worldwide Technology Watch, a competition to find the most innovative new technology in the meeting industry. The 2005 winner...

In a move to help clients leverage their total hospitality spend — meetings and transient travel — meeting technology provider StarCite Inc. announced in September a partnership with Uversa International Inc...