Like so many others in meeting planning, Dean Jones, RCMA’s new director of conferences and events, didn’t aim to become a meeting planner. It just happened—and for that he’s grateful. “I grew up in a cornfield in southern Illinois,” he says with...
Hired in January as RCMA’s first director of conferences and events, and working closely with Executive Director Harry Schmidt and the board of directors, Dean Jones, CMP, has moved forward in just three months with a plan for reshaping the...
I feel like either the engineer or the conductor of a well-intentioned but slow-moving train. As engineer, I’m compelled to gain speed, conserve energy, watch the tracks for obstacles—all to reach our destination as soon as possible...
What was born as a meeting of exhibition industry leaders to discuss best practices and guiding principles has developed into a new organization for the industry...
Nearly a thousand attendees converged in Kansas City in January for a milestone meeting of RCMA. Four decades earlier, the association had launched its first conference with a budget of less than $2,000 and fewer than a hundred members. This year...
A new online service wants to become event organizers’ No. 1 source for finding experts—paid and unpaid—to deliver keynotes, fill panels, and lead breakout sessions...
