Trends Report 2025: Meeting and Event ‘Destination Dupes’
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Event professionals’ proficiency using AI tools continues to grow. How about their green skills? Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
The demand to create high-tech, awe-inducing spectacles at events could stretch planners’ budgets to the limit. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Donald Trump’s influence on the medical meetings industry will depend on multiple factors, including his policies, public sentiment, and economic priorities. And while some of his high-level health-care administration appointments may not make it through the Senate confirmation process, it behooves medical event organizers to consider — and prepare for — every possibility.
Here’s how an event organizer, now a CEO, used an entrepreneurial mindset to make an opening conference reception that had a minor entertainment budget deliver a major impact.
Responses from business event organizers to the 31st Convene Meetings Market Survey reflect an acceptance of difficult market conditions, cautious optimism about the future, and above all, a sense of resilience.
Chinatown leaders from the U.S. and Canada gather to tackle safety, economic revitalization, and cultural preservation in neighborhoods across North America.
Nick Borelli, one of the event industry’s leading technologists, shares three ways to use Spark that most impress planners.
The latest EIC Global Business Events Barometer shows industry resilience and an encouraging forecast for next year and beyond.
Psychologist and author Jamil Zaki on why conferences are an antidote to mistrust and three ways to build connection between participants at conferences of all sizes.
CodeMash’s move to make the tech conference more accessible and affordable led to a family-friendly event that spawned the spin-off KidzMash just for attendees' children.