News & Trends

What’s happening — or coming up next — in the meetings and events world and beyond.

Inaugural Convene 4 Climate Launching as a ‘Catalyst for Change’

PCMA’s brand-new conference will gather invited participants from a variety of business events industry sectors, climate-tech experts, and professionals from adjacent industries to help create a sustainable future. 

BY Curt Wagner September 5, 2024

How to Make Networking Feel Less Intimidating

Attendees rank networking as a top priority for event participation. But many people experience social anxiety that prevents them from participating to the fullest. These experiential networking ideas lessen the fear of getting together.

BY Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes September 4, 2024

‘The Only Skill That Most of Us Need Is Curiosity’

The best way for event planners to use AI image generator? It helps to have a level of cultural competence, and the advice of a tech expert and EDI consultant.

BY Magdalina Atanassova September 4, 2024

Introverts, Extroverts, and the Majority in the Middle

We tend to separate event participants into two camps — introverts or extroverts — but we should design our events for the overlooked ambiverts, too.

BY Barbara Palmer August 30, 2024

Empowering Latinx Nonprofits in the Fundraising World

Fundraising Con Ganas, a two-day conference geared toward helping small- and medium-sized Latinx-focused nonprofits, addresses an industry inequity and ensures that what participants learn has organization-wide impact.

BY Casey Gale August 30, 2024

Designing Events With DEI in Mind From the Beginning

Despite a backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such initiatives remain an important part of business and business events.

BY Curt Wagner August 26, 2024

3 Events That Delivered Both Connection and Education

Striking the right balance of networking and education when designing your events isn’t impossible. Here’s how these events managed it.

BY Beth Surmont August 20, 2024

How a Medical Conference is Driving Health-Care Innovation

The World Hospital at Home Congress is helping advance the growing and critical service of bringing healthcare to people’s homes around the world.

BY Jennifer N. Dienst August 20, 2024

In Search of Something Better for the Events Industry

We asked event professionals to open up to us about the deeply ingrained ways in which the industry does business that need rethinking — and to consider: If we eliminate those sacred cows, what should we do instead?

BY Michelle Russell August 20, 2024

In Search of Better Event Structure and Programming

Name badges, long conference days, session lengths and formats, networking — event professionals offer more than 15 ideas to revitalize long-standing event practices.

BY Convene Editors August 20, 2024

‘People Don’t Like to Be Sold to’

Huddles are an alternative to exhibit halls, repositioning supplier partners as solution providers offering consultations in a non-hard-sell environment.

BY Michelle Russell August 20, 2024

4 Ideas to Improve Conference Exhibits

Here’s how a handful of event professionals think the events industry can create better experience for exhibitors and event participants.

BY Convene Editors August 20, 2024

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