Meeting and event online solutions company Cvent recently surveyed more than 2,000 of its clients to find out what makes meetings tick these days. Here's a sneak peek of some of the results unveiled at the Cvent Connect conference last week in in...
The Green Meeting Industry Council kicked off its 2015 Sustainable Meetings Conference, taking place June 17–19 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, with a sandwich-making CSR activity to benefit the Atlanta Children's...
I'm at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the Cvent Connect event for association and corporate planners, and it's been a whirlwind of activities, education, conversation, and some truly great keynotes so far. In the 28 or so hours I've been here, I'...
Global Experience Specialists, a full-service provider for live events, has become the first general services contractor to be certified to an international sustainability standard for the meetings and events industry. GES exceeded Level One and...
Life science and financial service companies must manage their meetings because of the regulatory requirements imposed on them by governments around the world. As a result, much of the meetings management attention has been focused on these two s...
There’s an emerging trend in associations. Boards and/or chief execs are making annual meeting re-invention a high strategic priority. Many are charging existing education committees, or new task forces, to develop and bring long-term...