George Stewart always thought he'd spend his life as an engineer, or managing engineers, or teaching engineering...

Move over, green meeting. Enter the carbon-neutral event. When you bring groups together for a meeting, you increase greenhouse gases as people fly and drive to your event. While there, attendees consume many megawatts of electricity and produce...

For more than 50 years, Indiana governors have used the Sagamore of the Wabash award to recognize those who have rendered distinguished service and made outstanding contributions to society. Among those who have received Sagamores have been U.S...

To pull off a successful sports or performance event, you need more than expert planning — you need volunteers who are willing and able to pitch in. And while they may be expert bowlers or soccer players, they may not have much expertise when it...

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Here's a hotel title you don't run into every day: community projects manager. That's the position that Jo Licata holds at the San Francisco Hilton. With overall responsibility for the hotel's charitable and community efforts, she's held this...

As we move into the second quarter of 2007, all of us — meeting planners and suppliers — are facing many challenges. Some of the challenges are anticipated and planned, but new ones seem to be cropping up every day. The “squeaky wheel” vies for...

Several years ago, the Council on Foundations was facing a bit of a conundrum with its annual meeting. Attendance was steady, if not increasing, so it wasn't that people weren't coming to the meeting. They just weren't going to the sessions...

Known as the world's largest medical meeting, the Radiological Society of North America's annual conclave is held in Chicago every November. It could well earn the distinction of being the most international of U.S. association meetings, too, with...

The Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, winner of the 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 World Travel Award as the Caribbean's Leading Conference Centre, is a state-of-the art conference facility on the island of Barbados. The center is ideal for hosting...