Is gender bias having a negative effect on your meeting organization? Positive Impact, the U.K.-based not-for-profit focused on sustainable events, offers 10 tips to get you thinking about how to remove some of the conscious and unconscious...
The team at Velvet Chainsaw Consulting is always in search of the latest science or research (outside of our industry) that can be applied to conference experience improvement. About a year ago, we discovered organizational anthropologist and...
Travel policy is an impactful way to move toward more sustainable practices for meetings and business travel—and there’s plenty of room for improvement, according to a survey of travel management pros by the Global Business Travel...
I’ve interacted with plenty of corporate legal departments throughout my career, and I’ll admit it: reviewing legalese is not something I look forward to doing. The truth is, most meeting pros feel the same way, invariably referring to...
This month’s tips from Positive Impact, the U.K.-based not-for-profit focused on sustainable events, looks at the role of events in creating responsible consumption and production in the world. According to the United Nations, "each...
I first sat down to write this article as the tragic news was breaking about the attack near the British Parliament that left five people dead, including an American on vacation, a British teacher, a Romanian architect, a police constable, and the...
Carina Bauer, CEO of the IMEX Group, which runs successful meetings industry trade shows, has a new offering for exhibitors at this spring’s event in Frankfurt, Germany: terrorism insurance...
