Natasha Richards and a new Impact business unit will oversee environmental, social, and governance strategy at IMEX Group, parent company to two leading trade shows in the business-events industry.
Changemaker Jason Dunn Sr., co-chair of the Events Industry Council’s Equity Task Force, led a research effort looking at the DEI experience of meeting professionals. The next step: corrective solutions.
A May meeting of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology was disrupted by an assault on a panelist, reminding planners of their critical risk-management responsibilities.
A veteran security consultant says that planners should implement many of the same protocols used for executive-level events across all their meetings.
For one association’s planning team that uses cameras to watch over event spaces during its annual meeting, an on-site incident suddenly changed the mission of the surveillance from quality control to crisis management.
The organization, formed in 1997 as a safety net for people in the events, meetings, and catering industries, continues to raise funds—and hopes—during tough times.
U.S. Travel estimates that the “embarrassingly long” wait times for first-time visa applicants from non-visa-waiver countries will keep 2.6 million people from visiting the U.S. in 2023.
SocialOffset.org helps organizations and their meeting attendees counter the effect of laws in a host destination that they oppose—without resorting to boycotts.
