Author, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist Josh Linkner at ASAE's opening general session in DetroitI guess the wags I overheard saying, “I guess you don’t have to actually be funny; you just have to show Louis CK clips,” had a point, but I lov...
The 2015 ASAE Annual Conference and Exposition, held August 8–11 in Detroit's Cobo Center, was a 5,400-strong celebration of associations, a constant stream of connections, a stronghold of education, and an exploration of a city on the...
Theft is on the rise at meetings—keep your event safe.Here are three ways for meeting planners to make would-be thieves think twice about victimizing your booths, ballrooms, and breakout rooms:
1. Hire adequate security.
A secu...
Etouches, a provider of cloud-based event management software, has acquired Inevention, a venue-sourcing platform for event planners. Etouches says the acquisition is part of a focus on its enterprise client base. While Inevention offers more than...
Executives want you to make sense of the facts, not just deliver a data dump.Meeting professionals need to make recommendations to their organizations on a range of topics—from venues to technology to sponsorship sales to adult education strategi...
Sunrises and sunsets were pretty spectacular in Detroit. This one is over the river at the final evening celebration at Hart Plaza.In my experience, few good things start out with getting up at 4 a.m. and, sure enough, my trip to Detroit for the ...
At its annual meeting and exposition in Detroit this week, CEO John Graham discussed what’s next for ASAE, from a revamp of its career site to a new membership model, and provided other updates on its focus and priorities moving forward.
More than $8 billion in meetings and events were sourced through event management platform Cvent in 2014, and the most popular U.S. city considered and/or booked for those programs was Orlando. Florida’s meeting hub returns to the top spot...
Some may have questioned the wisdom of bringing a discriminating group of association execs—and many of their organizations’ meeting professionals—to a city that just two years ago declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy after seeing its two flagship busin...
