Research shows traditional networking methods don’t work for women. A growing number of female-only events and spaces are trying to get it right.

Since it launched in 2012, the C2 Montréal conference — conceived by creative agency Sid Lee in partnership with Cirque du Soleil — has set a high bar for daringly different session formats, environments, and approaches to connecting diverse participants. How has that evolved?

From its session for first-time attendees to constituent roundtables and Connect and Collaborate sessions, the National Association of College and University Business Officers Annual Meeting focuses on helping its 2,000 attendees find — and connect with — their peers.

The creator of Braindate, a platform that links event participants with shared interests, on what attendees are looking for now.

A session that served to reconnect attendees after the pandemic has become an essential element of the Exponent Philanthropy Annual Conference program.

Convene breaks down the secret sauce behind the Female Quotient’s sassy style of pop-up Equality Lounges.

Members of the PCMA Catalyst Community share how their organizations deal with companies posing as authorized partners of their events — and how the ‘Government and Business Impersonation Rule’ can help.

When a competition pitted Spark AI against other gen AI tools, it became clear that the outcomes depend more on the users than the tools themselves.

As funding and support for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives decline in the U.S., event professionals consider the consequences for meetings, destinations, and associations.

How software company Avalara turned networking on its head and delivered business and bonding at its FUSE partner conference.

Corporate event marketers embraced an analog way of voting on topics — raising or lowering a balloon at their table — during a session by event experience company Projectory.

At ASAE’s 2024 Annual Meeting & Exposition, Destination Canada broke the brand activation mold by whisking attendees away for an afternoon on Ontario’s Pelee Island. Here’s how they pulled it off.

As record-breaking temperatures reach unprecedented levels, event organizers — and their participants — will have to take extra precautions to keep everyone cool, and safe.

Kitty Ratcliffe said she ‘bluffed’ her way into her first tourism job — but let the facts speak for themselves: In her more than four decades successfully leading DMOs, including her last 18-year stint — before retiring last month — as president of the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission, she earned numerous awards and honors.

The American Society of Hematology’s comprehensive strategy includes a stringent vetting process for journalists who apply to attend its annual meeting and detailed logistics to accommodate their needs and deadlines.

Most conversations about the use of artificial intelligence in the events industry focus on use cases that improve workforce productivity and performance for repeatable processes. Here are approaches that not only help you but help your event participants implement AI within their own organizations.

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. 

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.

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