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Known for its high-quality content, Convene offers a monthly series of must read articles organized around CMP knowledge areas that, along with an online test and essay, enables readers to easily earn CEs.
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Convene CMP Series: July-August 2024
Article: 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?
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EIC DOMAIN A: STRATEGIC PLANNING
Convene CMP Series: May-June 2024
Article: Meetings and the Maker Movement
How does the maker movement intersect with business events and how can we tap into it for more meaningful experiences for our participants? Convene casts a wide net to find ideas for weaving more of what makes us human into our events.
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EIC DOMAIN G: MEETING OR EVENT DESIGN
Convene CMP Series: March-April 2024
Article: Coach Class
WorldatWork’s Courtney Mesmer developed a speaker coaching program to improve the participant experience at her organization’s annual conference. That initiative not only transformed the conference but rippled throughout the organization.
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EIC DOMAIN E: HUMAN RESOURCES
Convene CMP Series: January-February 2024
Article: Learning to Listen
Listening is a skill essential tor the knowledge exchange that takes place at business events, but how can organizers cultivate better listening behavior among our audiences? Convene reached out to four listening experts and one of the world’s top experts on coaching for their advice
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EIC DOMAIN F: STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
Convene CMP Series: December 2023
Article: Game Changer: Paris 2024 Olympics Takes Bold Strides Toward Sustainability
The Olympic Games, the largest sporting event in the world, is aiming to make next year’s edition in Paris its most sustainable ever. What can the events community learn from its plans and its progress?
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EIC DOMAIN G: MEETING OR EVENT DESIGN
Convene CMP Series: November 2023
Article: Events Industry Forecast 2023: Where We Are Now
For this year’s Industry Forecast, we’ve culled the latest research on business events and the sectors that support them — travel, event technology, lodging, and the workplace — asking experts to provide insights about what to expect next. Here are some of those insights.
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EIC DOMAIN G: MEETING OR EVENT DESIGN
Convene CMP Series: September-October 2023
Article: Events and Venues Face New Challenges to Safety, Security
As face-to-face events return in full force, organizers and venues are assessing additional new risks, like potential disruptive behavior, that can make their events feel less safe and welcoming.
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EIC DOMAIN C: RISK MANAGEMENT
Convene CMP Series: July-August 2023
Article: The AI Tool You Can’t Ignore
Event professionals who are trying out generative Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT to help them brainstorm, streamline, analyze, and execute in their everyday work share their tips, approaches, and results.
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EIC DOMAIN G: MEETING OR EVENT DESIGN
Convene CMP Series: May-June 2023
Article: Practicing Empathy at Work and Events
Empathy is not just a soft skill that’s necessary to cultivate to lead teams and design events post-pandemic, it’s practical and effective.
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EIC DOMAIN E: HUMAN RESOURCES
Convene CMP Series: March-April 2023
Article: Meeting in the Metaverse
How the events industry is exploring the metaverse’s current and future potential.
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EIC DOMAIN A: STRATEGIC PLANNING
Convene CMP Series: January-February 2023
Article: The Transformation of Business Events: What event organizers have learned about what their audiences want now.
For the CMP Series/cover story in our January/February issue, Convene examines how a handful of organizations are incorporating lessons learned from the ways the pandemic affected their audiences, stakeholders, and members into their go-forward strategies — and how they continue to transform (or at least tweak) themselves and their events. Find links to our series of stories below.
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EIC DOMAIN G: MEETING OR EVENT DESIGN
Convene CMP Series: December 2022
Article: Designing Events That Create a Sense of Belonging
Now that in-person events have resumed, organizers can reignite among participants the sense that a common purpose bonds them together. Here’s how, according to experts across different fields.
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EIC Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Convene CMP Series: November 2022
Article: Events Industry Forecast for 2023
After a two-year COVID-induced break, Convene editors have brought back our Annual Industry Forecast, scouring through a wide variety of sources to offer the latest data and trends research on the travel, lodging, exhibitions, and event tech sectors. New this year, for obvious reasons, we’ve added the hybrid work environment to the mix. It’s not a crystal ball by a long shot, but our hope is that whatever insights you glean from these pages will help in your calculus for near-future events. Here’s to training our eyes on what may come in 2023.
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EIC Domain A: Strategic Planning
Convene CMP Series: October 2022
Article: 3 Shifts in Event Sustainability
Meeting professionals aren’t going back to planning exactly the same events they held in 2019, and they aren’t returning to the same conversations about sustainability they were having before the pandemic. Here are three ways industry experts in sustainability say the landscape is changing.
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EIC Domain A: Strategic Planning
Convene CMP Series: September 2022
Article: Salary Survey 2022: Calculating the Pandemic’s Effect on Event Organizers’ Compensation, Day-to-Day Work
Planners may be better compensated than before COVID but there’s also a sense of unrest over the continuing uncertainties in the business events industry, according to our latest Salary Survey.
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EIC Domain G: MEETING OR EVENT DESIGN
Convene CMP Series: August 2022
Article: Is the Talent Challenge Choking the Business Events Industry’s Recovery?
The events industry, hit particularly hard by the pandemic, is feeling the sting as business returns with a lack of talented professionals — on the planning and supplier sides — to pull off events.
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EIC Domain E: Human Resources
Convene CMP Series: July 2022
Article: Using Data to Chart a Path Forward
Data is not just a matter of what information you collect about your events and its participants — the most important part of the data journey is how you communicate stats and numbers to others. It’s about taking a point of view about the data and creating a compelling story to take action. Here’s how to get started.
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EIC Domain A: Strategic Planning
Convene CMP Series: May-June 2022
Article: How Are You Feeling?
It’s time to have a healthy conversation about mental health and wellness in the business events industry — how we foster it for each other in our workplaces and our participants at our events.
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EIC Domain E: Human Resources
Convene CMP Series: March-April 2022
Article: How Convention Centers Are Evolving in a New Events Landscape
In the wake of the pandemic’s disruptions, convention centers are going all in on human-centered needs — plus broadcast capabilities, nature, and outdoor spaces — to bring back groups.
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EIC Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Convene CMP Series: January-February 2022
Article: How Event Professionals Can Think Like Futurists
Amid continuing uncertainty around planning events during COVID’s wild ride, we turned to professional futurists to help put us on the path to envisioning business events going forward. Here’s a shorthand guide to thinking like a futurist.
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EIC Domain G: Meeting or Event Design