Conferon Global Services, Twinsburg, Ohio, the country's largest independent meeting planning and events management company, has a new name: Experient Inc...
No topic was too hot to handle at the Krisam Group's first Executive Summit, held September 7-10 at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. At the opening session, moderated by Corporate Meetings & Incentives' Editor Barbara Scofidio...
EventView 2006, the fifth annual study of how senior marketing professionals use meetings and events in their marketing mix, documents a slight decrease in the percentage of budgets earmarked for meeting and events, as well as setbacks in some...
Karen Bennett, vice president of sales strategy and support, sensed a disconnect between what salespeople wanted in an incentive trip and what her company, Atlanta-based Cingular Wireless, was offering...
Not long ago, Marybeth Roberts took a ride from Amgen's office in Thousand Oaks, Calif., to Santa Monica to check on a meeting she was overseeing. It wasn't because of a lack of confidence in the supplier hired to run the meeting, or to put out a...
It was Shaping up to be Securian's “greatest convention ever,” says Koleen Roach, director, recognition and conference planning, Securian Financial Group, St. Paul, Minn...
When Honda Started talking to potential partners that could execute a roadshow for its new Fit vehicle, it wasn't looking for one company to create a strategy, another to handle logistics, a third to build the training curriculum and testing, and...
As Biloxi, Miss., and the Mississippi Gulf Coast continue to grapple with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, more than 300 tourism professionals, hoteliers, and corporate executives met one weekend in March to do their part to help put the area...
