Virtual events might avoid costs around hotel rooms, F&B, and travel, but using technology platforms, recording speakers, and editing presentations still require a significant investment. Here’s a ...

Amanda Buehner, senior vice president at CSP, which produces events and media for the convenience-store and petroleum-retailing industry, designed a new event for women in that industry with three ...

If your 2025 meeting budgets aren’t at least 4.3 percent over what you spent this year, there’s a good chance you’ll find yourself in the hole. That’s upshot of the meetings and events cost forecast ...

Warning: Please note that the generated output is not legal advice. You are advised to consult a lawyer. That’s the small print on the legal prompts in Spark, the meetings-specific generative-A.I.

With more than 12,000 buyers and suppliers gathering at Fira Barcelona Gran Via from November 18 to 21, IBTM World saw its strongest edition yet. The 73,000 buyer-supplier meetings that took place ...

A January survey of more than 200 U.S.-based physicians found that 57 percent frequently or occasionally change their perception of a medication or a treatment based on content they see on social ...

On a scale from one to 10, a remarkable 84 percent of meeting professionals in North America rated their level of optimism at an 8 or higher for the health of the meetings industry in 2024. That ...

We can’t all design events resembling SXSW and TED Talks, can we? There’s that pesky budget thing, of course. On the other hand, it’s not a foregone conclusion that your general sessions must be ...

No doubt about it: Sustainable events are a can of worms. Once a planner tackles F&B and waste management, there’s the question of recycling the trade-show carpet and the signage. Once she finds a ...

In her 12 years at event-technology firm Cvent, Allyson Keenan has risen from marketing intern to event planner to event-operations manager and event technologist. So, she has a broad and clear ...

Consider this: If more than 90 percent of your company’s employees reported feeling “burned out on a regular basis,” more than 60 percent were considering leaving the industry altogether, and one in ...