Gary Shapiro president and CEO Consumer Electronics Association and LinkedIn influencer
Who's Who in the Exhibition Industry
Jun 02, 2014
The Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum 2014, held May 28 at the JW Marriott, Washington, D.C., drew its largest crowd yet. Now in its 13th year, ECEF attracted 206 senior executives from associations and independent event companies to hear...
Ray Bloom chairman IMEX Group
IMEX Opens with Record Exhibitor Numbers and 200 Education Events
May 20, 2014
Ray Bloom, chairman, IMEX Group, welcomed his colleagues from the German Convention Bureau, IMEX’s longtime strategic partner, and Taleb Rifai, secretary/general of the World Tourism Organization, the United Nations Specialized Agency for Tourism...
What Do Meeting Majors Do? Eight Recent Grads Tell Their Stories
What Do Meeting Majors Do? Eight Recent Grads Tell Their Stories
May 16, 2014
Eight recent grads who are putting their meeting degrees to good use
Millennial Planners: Here They Come!
Millennial Planners: Here They Come!
May 16, 2014
Colleges are preparing the next generation of meeting execs.
What You Say May Not Be What They Hear
What You Say May Not Be What They Hear
May 13, 2014
Leave it to USA Today travel columnist Chris Elliott to make me rethink the words we use to label and talk about everything from what we call different classes of airfares, to hotel loyalty programs, to how we label association membership segment...
We Have Met the Spammer, and It Is Us
We Have Met the Spammer, and It Is Us
May 12, 2014
I was reading the excellent post by Cara Tracy, CMP, CMM, on how annoying it is to be put on vendor e-mail lists to get promotional e-mails about products and services you may never want or use. In other words, spam. They don't qualify you in any...
Responding to Carpenters Union Strike, Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority Renews Demands
Responding to Carpenters Union Strike, Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority Renews Demands
May 06, 2014
With the backing of four of the six unions that operate in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority's new customer satisfaction agreement is designed to meet the concerns of both exhibitors and unions...
Inside Story of Lanyon's Passkey Acquisition
Inside Story of Lanyon's Passkey Acquisition
May 01, 2014
Lanyon, which earlier this year merged with Active Network Business Solutions, which itself was formed in 2011 after Active Network acquired StarCite, announced this week it has acquired Passkey, the industry-leading group reservation technology ...
Greg Skloot founder of Attendcom
Attend.com, a New Face in Event Management
May 01, 2014
Keep your eye on Greg Skloot. As a student at Boston’s Northeastern University, he was the guy mumbling “There’s gotta be a better way” as he managed invites, registrations, surveys, and more for a stream of weekly meetings and events he ran for ...
Forum producer Sam Lippman
Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum Finalizes Program
May 01, 2014
The Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum is well on its way to reaching its maximum of 200 top executives for the annual one-day event, being held this year on May 28 in Washington, D.C. Sam Lippman, producer of the event, put the finishin...
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