While having more qualifiers than expected for an incentive trip is great for a company’s sales reports, it can make a planner break into a cold sweat. That was the situation Lacey Hein, CMP, senior event marketing manager with travel and expense...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Grass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen sits down with Kim Rivielle, an activations agent, experience designer, and creative strategist who has spent the last decade...

The June 30 #Eventprofs Happy Hour, "Ask Me Anything About Event Production,” showcased more than just today's hottest AV and production trends. Led by Adrian Segar, participant-led-conferences advocate, author, and facilitator extraordinaire, an...

See that guy over there who’s talking intently at a cocktail round on the exhibit floor with a small group of attendees? His badge says he’s just another attendee, and he only paid the attendee registration fee, but he is a de facto exhibitor—a s...

Earlier this year, IACC (formerly the International Association of Conference Centres, now officially referred to by its acronym alone) surveyed meeting planners and interviewed other meeting professionals to create a report on the “IACC Meeting ...

I participated in my first Blab—kind of like a Periscope-type video chat for groups—and got a heaping pile of great thoughts about AV and production issues during the June 30 #Eventprofs Happy Hour, "Ask Me Anything About Event Production.” Adria...

I've been toying with the idea of podcasting for quite a while now, so when I saw Mike McAllen, the podcast king over at Grass Shack Events and Media, was offering a free guide to podcasting for events, I was ready to download. I usually am reall...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Grass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen sits down with Heiner Koppermann, cofounder and CEO of SwarmWorks Ltd. (Germany) and SwarmWorks, Inc. (USA), both specializ...

Reggie Aggarwal, CEO and cofounder of Cvent Inc., addressed what he called “the elephant in the room” at the company’s annual client conference, CventConnect, being held this week in Las Vegas. “Most of you are aware that Cvent entered into a def...

Thank you, PCMA, for inviting those of us who couldn’t make it to the 2016 Professional Convention Management Association Education Conference, held in June in St. Louis, for streaming some sessions online! I was only able to hop on one, but it w...