Five years after it became law, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill has sparked a number of shifts in the way meetings are managed and procured, said Joshua Grimes, Esq., Grimes Law Offices, Philadelphia, speaking at the Third Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting...
The typical exhibit hall is overwhelming and an inefficient learning environment. That’s just one of the findings in a survey of healthcare convention attendees conducted by Impact Unlimited, a Dayton, N.J.-based event production and...
Bridging the gap between corporate meeting professionals and procurement executives just got a little easier now that the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, Alexandria, Va., and the American Purchasing Society, Aurora, Ill., have formed a...
Trade show organizers have a problem, said Mickey McManus, president and CEO of MAYA Design, to the more 180 people who gathered at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center last week for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum one-day...
Using its recent Professional Education Conference–Europe as it resource laboratory, Meeting Professionals International has released a white paper that, it says, reaffirms the impact effective “learning” meetings have on ROI for both the meeting...
The Incentive Research Foundation hosted its first event, the IRF Incentive Invitational, this past weekend at the Ritz-Carlton Golf & Spa Resort, Rose Hall, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Slots for suppliers sold out a few weeks before the two-day...
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors approved the budget, timeline, and plans for the renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Most of the work will be completed in 2010, as initially planned, although some...