Kellie Shevlin, CEM, co-founder and executive director of the Craft Beverage Expo, Washington, D.C., talks about her career path and gives young professionals in the business events industry some advice:

With a growing number of special-meal requests, meeting planners are getting creative to accommodate the needs and preferences of attendees with food allergies or lifestyle and religious dietary restrictions.

Actor Charlie Todd, founder of the New York City-based improvisational collective Improv Everywhere, finds zany ways to break through barriers and create shared experiences for strangers.

Our brains develop to retain information that seems important and to block out what seems like noise. Here’s how to get — and keep — your attendees’ attention.

If you’re not thinking about how to end your meeting or event in an emotionally powerful way, you are missing a big opportunity.

Cognitive scientist Josh Mcdermott on why people hear what they do — and why the auditory conferences he attends often have terrible acoustics.

Audio engineer Steve Bush takes on identifying sound leakage, controlling Reverberation, and finding the right expert.

Planner Tina Squillante took a standard classroom-style medical meeting and, by applying lessons she learned at PCMA Convening Leaders, blew it out of the water. This is how she did it.