News & Trends
How Will Our Future, Post-Pandemic Cities Take Shape?
Some initiatives are pointing the way to greener, healthier, more resilient — and more equitable — cities.
Turning an In-Person, One-Off Event to Online All the Time
The United Fresh Produce Association made its annual convention into a digital experience and ‘built a year-round convention center’ for commerce, engagement, and learning. Here’s what’s worked and what hasn’t.
Do You Want to Talk About Race With Eventprofs?
The Eventsprof Book Club is hosting a discussion with events entrepreneur and diversity expert Ashanti Bentil-Dhue.
What Skills Do You Need? Depends on Where You Are
PCMA’s COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard surveys offer insight into where planners and suppliers think the business events industry is headed. Here’s a look at how the results of the July survey compare to the same survey, also from July, in the APAC region.
Change Is Hard, But Is It Easier During the Pandemic?
Wharton professor and author Jonah Berger on why you should feel more comfortable making big changes now, and others may be more receptive to new ideas.
3 Secrets of Resilient People
Three strategies that can help anyone through tough times, from a resilience researcher who put them to the test following an agonizing personal loss.
Keeping a Fully Planned In-Person Program Intact Online
When the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology was forced to quickly move its in-person event online for its first virtual conference, organizers’ biggest concern was how to preserve 1,500 peer-reviewed and -accepted presentations.
Tough Love During Tough Times
Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes, mdg’s chief marketing strategist, on why we need to stop thinking about events going back to normal and focus on changing outdated business models.
More Than Child’s Play: The Toy Association Launches Three Virtual Market Weeks
The Toy Association offers an affordable digital alternative to an in-person event, bringing together toy manufacturers (sellers) with specialty retailers (buyers) before the 2020 holiday season.
Focus on APAC: COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard
In what is the largest business events industry survey conducted for the APAC region to date, 531 event industry professionals — 342 planners and 189 suppliers — participated in the latest PCMA survey.
5 Ways to Make Digital Events More Responsive to Audience Needs
From staffing requirements to keeping participants engaged, here’s what The Ortus Club has learned in short order about virtual audiences.
Video Series Aims to Bring Positivity in Challenging Times
The TILT Group launched its BRIGHT video series, featuring speakers with uplifting stories and career advice, to give professionals a break from the stresses brought on by the pandemic and inspiration to move forward.