Heads rolled at the headquarters of Meeting Professionals International last week. The Dallas-based association’s new CEO, Bruce MacMillan, CA, who joined MPI in December, let go five senior staffers on February 15, the same day the association...
The collapse of some concrete flooring in Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center February 5 forced the facility to close temporarily and had several groups scrambling to find different venues or dates for their meetings...
DigitalNow, a professional development program for association executives, produced by Fusion Productions and the Disney Institute, will feature Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia project, as one of four general session speakers when it takes...
Las Vegas wasn’t a top destination for healthcare meetings 10 years ago, but now it reigns as the most popular destination for healthcare meetings, according to the Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association’s 2007 Industry Research Report...
Despite the fact that international travel to the U.S. is down 17 percent since 2001 overall, international attendance at association meetings and conventions has not declined, according to a new study commissioned by the Professional Convention...
The Accreditation Council for CME’s new accreditation criteria were top of mind for many of the 1,820 attendees at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2007 Annual Conference, held in January in Phoenix. Speaking at several sessions...