Your conference date is set, your agenda is finalized, and now it’s time to start promoting your event. Your conference communication must reach the right people and encourage them to choose to attend your event. The pressure is on...
We asked thought leaders, experts, and innovators in the meetings and convention industry about their predictions for the year ahead. Their number one concern: The need to keep meetings safe and secure in a less safe world. But risk management isn...
Wilson Tang, vice president, digital experience, Freeman XP DigitalVirtual Reality has been a lot of fun for a few years now, but a new VR platform unveiled at the Professional Convention Management Association Convening Leaders conference may ma...
The Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s 2017 Meetings and Event Forecast predicts a return to the buyer’s market now that hotel supply is expected to surpass demand for the first time since 2009. Better room rates, more concessions, and easier...
Do you really know your attendees’ priorities and preferences? Do you know how to make use of the data that you do have? This may finally be the year to pull that data together.
“Leveraging technology to improve attendee engagement and drive...
Actor Matthew McConaughey at Monday’s opening session at Convening LeadersThe Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders conference is underway in Austin. The first topic on its press conference agenda was the surprise app...
No one wants to think it could happen to them, but your chances of being hacked are growing every year. Here are five things you need to stop doing now to keep your meetings safer:
1. Allowing speakers to plug unknown presentation flashdrives ...
In the coming year, “social media will continue to take a larger communication role in meetings and events, but we have to get more creative about how we integrate it,” says Kelsey Dixon, a cofounder, with Makenzie Davies, of branding...
For anyone who’s ever snarled at paying a mandatory daily resort fee above and beyond a hotel’s stated room rate, know that the White House is not too happy either.
A new report from the administration’s National Economic Council says that the...
For large events in the year ahead, attendees arriving onsite may feel like they’re back in the airport security line.
“We don’t want to inconvenience attendees, but safety is our number one priority,” says Gene Lundgren, president, Aquarian...
