If you're in meeting planning for the money, it helps to be a guy … with lots of experience … working for a corporation. You probably could have guessed that without reading the results of Meeting Professionals International's recent salary survey...

Remember the days before e-mail, cell phones, and BlackBerries, when the world moved at a slower pace — and planners could count on a handshake to seal a hotel contract agreement? Those are just a few of the seismic shifts that insurance and...

In December, ICPA members will receive an e-mail reminder to renew their membership for 2006. By renewing, members will continue to receive electronic news from the association, gain access to the members-only section of the Web site, and receive...

It was 1989 when then-publisher Dean Laux, president of The Laux Co., bought Insurance Conference Planner from George Lowden, owner of Bayard Publications, Stamford, Conn. (He purchased ICP along with Convention World, which was to become...

When Lisa Palmeri sat on the OnVantage customer advisory board as a meeting professional from Abbott Laboratories, the group was in agreement that forming a consulting arm would be a good move for the meeting technology company. At the time, the...

The ICPA Board of Directors extends its sincere congratulations to ICP — now Financial & Insurance Meetings — as it celebrates 40 years of delivering news and quality information to insurance and financial services conference planners. Our two...

Three weeks after Katrina, we asked John Foster Esq., CHME, Foster, Jensen & Gulley, LLC, Atlanta, Ga for advice to those with meetings in New Orleans, or anywhere else on the Gulf Coast, in 2006 or 2007. Here's what he told us...

CTX, an IT consulting firm based in Cabin John, Md., gives Palm Pilots to employees who complete 16 class credits of on-site training, and is creating a CTX Goodies Catalog that will include gift certificates and computers as well as logoed...

In Pennsylvania, Gov. Ed Rendell signed a bill in July that allows for 14 casinos: seven at racetracks, five standalone slot parlors, and two resort-hotel casinos. The earliest any of these could be open is late 2006, but Pennsylvania is expected...

The theme for our 2005 annual conference, Be a Part of It!, could not be more appropriate. Never has our association presented more opportunity for its members to participate than we do today...