What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
Tech whiz Brandt Krueger at one of the #IMEX15 campfire sessionsMeeting and event technology consultant Brandt Krueger was a fountain of information on all things audiovisual during several sessions he led at IMEX America in Las Vegas. Here are j...
The Future Convention Cities Initiative—a five-year-old association of the cities of Abu Dhabi, Durban, London, San Francisco, Seoul, Sydney, and Toronto that is dedicated to collaborating, cooperating, and sharing resources to drive innovation a...
I know, conferences and trade shows are serious business, and they result in serious business getting done. But, as I learned from meetings maven Joan Eisenstodt back when I first wandered into the wild realm of meeting planning, we all work much...
IMEX America 2015 welcomed a record 3,100 exhibitors to the Sands Expo in Las Vegas this year, so our gallery of news is nowhere near comprehensive! But we’re glad to share updates and developments from some of the destinations, venues, and...
Just a month after launching, the Meetings Industry Fund is achieving its goal of helping people in need in the meetings industry by providing a grant of $2,600 toward more than a year’s worth of unpaid medical bills.
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When you’re looking for a destination for your new association congress, your multinational corporation’s innovation conclave, or your plant managers’ training trip, you’re unlikely to be investigating accessibility and infrastructure. Not becaus...
Planners like consistency. But they also need variety. That’s why they spend enormous time and effort discovering and then working with new properties to get hotel personnel up to speed with their needs and their attendee expectations. They...
Among the celebrants at this year's CMI 25 reception were, from left: Frank McVeigh, president and CEO, McVeigh Associates, Ltd.; Tina Weede, president, USMotivation; Barbara Nindos, vice president, USMotivationYou know on radio talk shows when s...
From left: EventMB Founder and Editor Julius Solaris; Glisser Founder Mike Piddock; Social Tables Founder and CEO Dan Berger; Crowd Mics CEO and Co-founder Tim Holladay; DoubleDutch CEO Lawrence Coburn; Catchbox Co-founder and CCO Pyry TaanilaInn...
