KiKi L’Italien, Amplified Growth, and Scott Oser, Scott Oser Associates, outside their session room at ASAEMeeting planners tend to be busy people. Make that very busy—but are you busier than you need to be? If so, the American Societ...

Researcher, professor, author, and psychologist Sherry Turkle at the ASAE closing general session. Photo by Jason KeenMy reaction to psychologist and researcher Sherry Turkle’s closing ASAE general session speech—in which she called mobile techno...

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Author, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist Josh Linkner at ASAE's opening general session in DetroitI guess the wags I overheard saying, “I guess you don’t have to actually be funny; you just have to show Louis CK clips,” had a point, but I lov...

The Hilton Chicago tries to make life easier for its pharmaceutical and life sciences meeting clients.

Theft is on the rise at meetings—keep your event safe.Here are three ways for meeting planners to make would-be thieves think twice about victimizing your booths, ballrooms, and breakout rooms: 1. Hire adequate security. A secu...

Etouches, a provider of cloud-based event management software, has acquired Inevention, a venue-sourcing platform for event planners. Etouches says the acquisition is part of a focus on its enterprise client base. While Inevention offers more than...

Sunrises and sunsets were pretty spectacular in Detroit. This one is over the river at the final evening celebration at Hart Plaza.In my experience, few good things start out with getting up at 4 a.m. and, sure enough, my trip to Detroit for the ...

More than $8 billion in meetings and events were sourced through event management platform Cvent in 2014, and the most popular U.S. city considered and/or booked for those programs was Orlando. Florida’s meeting hub returns to the top spot...

With a strong presence in Europe and Latin America for leisure and business travelers, Madrid-based NH Hotel Group has plans to grow its meeting and event business, which currently accounts for 25 percent of revenue. The company also will make a ...