Association Conventions and Expos

The Professional Convention Management Association has named the 2016 class of young meeting professionals for its 20 in Their Twenties program. The program is designed to honor emerging leaders who will be pivotal to the meetings and events indu...

Formed in 2009 to keep telling the story about meetings—that they create personal connections, drive positive business outcomes, and build strong communities—the Meetings Mean Business coalition recently announced a change in...

London leads the list of top European cities as identified by CventBased on data from its supplier network, enterprise event management platform provider Cvent has released its inaugural list of top European meeting destinations, with London, Bar...

Today's guest post is by Maz Kaur, a blogger for The Events Structure There isn’t an exact science to planning trade shows, and any number of things can go wrong both before and during the event. The key is to be prepared for anything and make...

Tech whiz Brandt Krueger at one of the #IMEX15 campfire sessionsMeeting and event technology consultant Brandt Krueger was a fountain of information on all things audiovisual during several sessions he led at IMEX America in Las Vegas. Here are j...

The Future Convention Cities Initiative—a five-year-old association of the cities of Abu Dhabi, Durban, London, San Francisco, Seoul, Sydney, and Toronto that is dedicated to collaborating, cooperating, and sharing resources to drive innovation a...

From left: Hervé Bosquet, Brussels Convention Bureau; Steen Jakobsen, Dubai Convention Bureau; Jeannie Lim, Singapore Exhibition and Convention Bureau; Elliott Ferguson, Destination DCFour cities—Dubai, Singpore, Brussels, and Washington, D.C.—r...

I know, conferences and trade shows are serious business, and they result in serious business getting done. But, as I learned from meetings maven Joan Eisenstodt back when I first wandered into the wild realm of meeting planning, we all work much...

Just a month after launching, the Meetings Industry Fund is achieving its goal of helping people in need in the meetings industry by providing a grant of $2,600 toward more than a year’s worth of unpaid medical bills. “I'm totally bawling my e...