Corporate Meetings & Events

The Disability Equality Index and the Corporate Equality Index are two resources to help answer that question. Caesars Entertainment made the 2021 DEI list for the first time, joining a few other hotel companies and airlines.

Many of this year’s Changemakers nominations focused on a pivot to virtual. Here’s a prediction for what we’ll see next year.

At the beginning of the pandemic, it became apparent that it would take a village to bring back the meetings industry. So, Sue Sung set about creating one called Go LIVE Together.

Carolyn Pund, CMM, DES, developed revised policies and procedures, and a new health-and-safety advisory service, to lay the groundwork for the return to meetings.

In 2020, Heather Mason generated waves of educational programming so that meeting managers could hold more effective programs and climb the career ladder.

In 2020, when Meeting Professionals International needed to help the industry learn how to pivot, the planning spotlight fell on Changemaker Lori Pugh Marcum, CMP, CMM, CED, HMCC.

“All we need now are 999,999 more Greta Thunbergs.”

When the pandemic sank one planning firm, Changemaker Margaret Launzel-Pennes got a new one afloat with staff and projects in less than two weeks.

To manage their 2020 meetings volume—106 live virtual symposia, 125 events with live and prerecorded programming, and 170 on-demand educational sessions—this Changemakers duo rewrote their standard operating procedures.