The Internal Revenue Service is in more hot water, this time for excessive conference spending. A report by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General calls out the IRS for spending $50 million on 220 employee conferences between 2010 and 2012....More
You might be able to get free Wi-Fi for your event. But do you want it? Maybe you should leave "free" in the lobby and get yourself some dedicated bandwidth....More
Alex Zapple was walking back to her hotel from dinner when she heard sirens blaring and saw multiple police cars racing past, headed toward the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge where an officer had just been shot....More
No surprises at the top of the International Congress & Convention Association city and country rankings for association meetings held in 2012. The U.S. remains the top country; Vienna is still the top city. Elsewhere in the lists, Copenhagen moves up and China slips....More
How can we retool trade shows so that, instead of at best generating attendee apathy, the show floor becomes an interesting, engaging, want-to-be-there place? Or has the time come to blow up the traditional exhibition model altogether?...More
Capturing the spirit of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, which met at the Hynes Convention Center just two days after bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, a board member closed the conference by quoting noted author Salman Rushdie:
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”...More
