As a meeting professional, you know that: • Someone will unexpectedly declare that they’re vegan, gluten-free, and kosher—and mess up your whole meal plan. • Some speakers will forget to bring their handouts, and require Keynote when you ha...

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with a group of hoteliers and buyers in the life sciences sector about the challenges they face in meeting each other’s needs. The conversation raised a lot of interesting questions, one of which covers wha...

Continuing medical education provides great benefit to the learners, and there are outcome studies that show it also leads to improvement in patient care. But two questions still remained: How does CME affect the overall cost of care? Can increas...

At the 2016 Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Winter Symposium, a panel addressed the idea of “trends” versus “fads” in meetings, technology, and more. When the discussion gravitated toward what’s...

As you all know, I am a big believer in strategic meetings management. And as you also know, I am often perplexed by the fact that many organizations have not adopted the three core requirements of SMM: a comprehensive meetings policy...

Meeting planners know the feeling of standing alone in an empty, vast ballroom in the early morning hours before the sun rises or at night long after the last participant duly exits. There is something captivating that envelopes you—that sound of...

What a great way to kick off the New Year—a behind-the-scenes educational experience at CES organized by Meeting Professionals International! If you’re not familiar with CES, it’s North America’s largest annual trade show...

Have you heard? There’s a rumor showing up in social media feeds everywhere that Twitter is planning to increase the character limit for tweets from 140 to 10,000. The Twittersphere is abuzz, and I can understand why: It’s hard to...

Many conference organizers are jumping on the micro-learning bandwagon as a silver bullet for innovating their conference education. They believe that the next generation conference participants have short attention spans and prefer these formats...

Here are the steps continuing medical education providers can take now to avoid ending up on the Accreditation Council for CME's noncompliance list.