Event Design & Ideas

While breakthrough technologies and new scientific discoveries tend to hog media headlines, it bears remembering that incremental changes—slight shifts in business strategy or thinking—can be every bit as powerful as revolutionary...

A new Walkabout for small vendors and other innovations are giving exhibitors more of what they want at the EB Games Vendor Show—engagement, interaction, and results.

It wasn’t easy for the Food Marketing Institute to take down its 86-year-old event, but when it did, it found new opportunities aplenty.

At its Visionary Awards in early May, the Professional Convention Management Association Education Foundation honored Phelps Hope, CMP, as Event Designer of the Year.  Hope, senior vice president, meetings & expositions, at Kellen...

If you had to choose how to spend your day, would you rather be at a business meeting or at Disney? Most people would pick Disney, where you get to play and have fun. As meeting professionals, we need to challenge ourselves to create experiences...

Sharon Fisher, idea sparker at Play with a Purpose, knows that to drive meeting results all stakeholders need to be on the same page. Her low-tech, easy-to-implement tactic helps organizers understand what they want attendees to learn, feel, and...

Patti J. Shock of the International School of Hospitality on black pizza and pickles.