For Michelle Allgauer, CAE, CMM, CMP Fellow, senior vice president, education & engagement at the Financial Services Institute, moving up the ranks as a meeting professional has meant applying her skills to a wider vision for the organization.
Success for Lauren Parr, senior vice president, meetings and learning at the American Geophysical Union, has meant being willing to do the work to move her ideas forward.
Nobody is surprised to hear that there are disproportionately fewer women in meeting leadership positions compared to the number of women in the field. A new report looks at why.
For the National Association of Music Merchants’ annual show—a.k.a. “the rock and roll convention”—its unique planning challenges have been amplified in the post-pandemic environment. But the show-operations team has gotten creative to keep things...
An association has switched the dates of its 4,200-attendee annual meeting because Taylor Swift is scheduled to rock the host city that same weekend in October.
Two months ahead of the Republican National Convention coming in July, Milwaukee’s Baird Center will open a 673,000-square-foot addition that brings the facility to more than 1.3 million square feet.
Tracking key performance indicators provides measurable, objective metrics for evaluating an event’s success and planning for the future. The best part: It doesn’t have to be complicated.
