Four years ago, Cheryl Ronk, president of the Michigan Society of Association Executives (MSAE), received a call that changed the course of her association's convention. "A member of MMPI [Michigan chapter of Meeting Professionals International]...
On Meetings & Technology * "Technology will take the place of some meetings, but paradoxically it will increase face-to-face meetings because we need to play up the networking aspect, making [meetings] as high-touch as possible. Or, people...
When the giant wall drops between the stage and the seats, alarm lights flashing, just two minutes before the doors to the auditorium are to open for her conference, E. Gwynn Breckenridge, CMP, is baffled...
If the meeting industry ever needed an advocate, it has found one in Mickey Schaefer, CAE, current president of the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA). In an impassioned presentation at the Convention Liaison Council Forum held...