The roster of business leaders and creative thinkers who have spoken at TED events over the years has become a formal network that meeting planners can tap into.

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a conference. What he discovered can help other planners keep their attendees alert and healthy.

The meetings market will be central to the recovery of urban hotels. Here, two industry consultants dish to city-hotel sales executives on why securing meetings business is so critical, with numbers that could give negotiating insight to planners.

Here’s the latest from companies offering new ways to create and measure engagement, provide language captioning, integrate video, and more.

The Special Event 2023 has opened its call for speakers, looking for experts in event design, technology, safety, and more.

The collaboration with VSef, the global data format for virtual events, will speed the push to make data easily accessible from and transferable between different online platforms and analytics tools.

Two ideas for stronger contract clauses for groups concerned that social or political issues might upend their destination selection.

A recent judges’ association conference in New York wound up with a nearly 30-percent rate of Covid infection among attendees. It’s a reminder that event hosts must still consider testing, masking, and other precautions.

After launching its carbon-reduction pledge at COP26, the Net-Zero Carbon Events campaign has now developed the first draft of its roadmap to carbon zero meetings, and it’s ready for your input.