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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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
‘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.
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.