While 3,400 exhibiting companies vied for planner’s attention at the IMEX America show in Las Vegas, these organizations stood out to one meeting executive for their connection to top industry issues.

Known as Spark, the planning-specific platform will maintain a free version along with a paid version offering enhanced features that rolls out on October 23.

Two conference leaders have announced new tech resources that meet attendees’ changing expectations and communication styles.

The hybrid-meeting technology launched last year with compelling capabilities for facilitating collaboration.

Will Curran, founder of Endless Events and the #eventprofs online community, moves to Bizzabo as head of Klik Experiential, a division that builds data-collecting smart badges.

An artificial-intelligence engine with built-in prompts specifically for meeting management tasks is entirely free right now, but the founders have announced that some functionality will go behind a paywall this fall.

Planners who are persistent but judicious in their use of ChatGPT and other A.I. tools can get good results before, during, and after a webinar—and in less time—according to two event-marketing pros who are doing it.

Executives from GBTA’s Meetings & Events Europe Committee weigh in on top meeting trends that, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse, just won’t quit.

Room blocks at Radisson, Cambria, Comfort Inns & Suites, Clarion, and Quality Inn properties will soon be bookable without RFPs, aiding corporate-event planners and perhaps association-convention planners.

Bloggers and marketers have been using artificial intelligence to create brief videos from text, still images, and moving graphics. Now, A.I.-led video editing of speakers’ presentations can help event hosts generate robust social-media content as...