Meeting Planning Toolbox

Making the case for prioritizing experience design, elevating interaction with creative formats, and attending a new MeetingsNet collaborative event.

When one association learned that several vendors had raised their prices just weeks ahead of its conference, the planning team quickly reshaped some event elements to stay on budget.

Steeper F&B and AV costs? Absolutely. Timely responses from hotels? Not often. Free meeting space? Fat chance. These issues and others are addressed in an industry outlook from Knowland and Conference Direct.

If ever there was a potential force-majeure situation that meeting planners had not thought about, this is it.

Meals at corporate events need to satisfy on taste, presentation, and mental nourishment. Here are a few interesting ideas from a boutique F&B consultancy.

A report outlines several ways planners can package content before, during, and after a meeting to ensure that the learning sticks.

If the way you handle attendees’ information doesn’t meet the EU’s GDPR standards, it may not meet some U.S. state’s standards being enacted in 2023.

Next year, U.S. citizens headed to the European Union will need to register with the EES and submit an ETIAS application. Not familiar with those? Here’s what each requires and when each goes into effect.

AstraZeneca’s Valli Chapjian is pushing her global events team to build effective meetings for internal clients and attendees alike, while moving closer to a zero-carbon footprint with each meeting. The target date: 2030.