Meeting Planning Toolbox

8 lessons for managing risk when selecting a meeting destination outside the U.S.

New book provides specific techniques to make meeting sessions more participatory—and effective.

Dale IrvinMy name is Dale, and I am The Professional Summarizer. My goal in life is to boil down the gigabits of information available in the world today to a few finely distilled comments. I do this for conferences all over the world and in this...

At Cvent Connect, company executives introduced Cvent Express and laid out a roadmap of where it expects to be going in the near future.

Julius Solaris, founder of the Event Manager Blog, and kind of an event-blogging hero of mine, is launching a very cool contest: the inaugural Event Technology of the Year Award 2015. Anyone who makes any type of event tech can submit an entry: T...

Today's guest post is by Andrew Taffin, CEO of Tallen Technology Rentals Ask a meeting planner who has been in the industry for a while and no doubt they’ll be happy to share stories recounting events and meetings at some pretty unusual and un...

Joe Meehan, director, event technology, Milken Institute, provided an impressive list of event-marketing questions during a breakout session at Cvent Connect, held June 14–18 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Calling on the spirit of the Olivia P...

If your event stats dip below any one of these benchmarks, take action before it's too late.

Meeting and event online solutions company Cvent recently surveyed more than 2,000 of its clients to find out what makes meetings tick these days. Here's a sneak peek of some of the results unveiled at the Cvent Connect conference last week in in...