Tom Peters and Roger Dow on Face-to-Face Meetings

Last week’s Springtime, a one-day conference and trade show sponsored by the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, was the event's first-time foray at the new Washington (D.C.) Convention Center, which afforded Springtime the ability to expand its exhibit hall.

And expand it did. Having wait-listed many exhibitors in years past, GWSAE added 125 booths this year, for a total of 702 booths, and there were 35 percent more visitors, according to Susan Sarfati, CAE, president and