Meeting Planning Toolbox

Forget the post-event online survey. At least one show lets attendees step to the microphone on the final day to offer their unvarnished opinions to planners sitting on the stage.

Encore’s latest Planner Pulse report finds that transportation and food & beverage are the most hard-hit budget items, while large events are being planned more often on shorter notice.

The Event Leaders Exchange has virtual think tanks planned through the fall, along with a benchmarking study and in-person gathering.

Let’s move beyond simple checklists, one-time social initiatives, and basic measurements of landfill avoidance and recycling, and start thinking more systemically and longer term.

The Events Industry Council has bolstered the industry-wide program it took over in 2019.

Planners of academic and scientific conferences detail all the factors they must consider when planning a hybrid meeting, and it’s not pretty.

Changemaker Kai Hattendorf is part of the community of industry leaders that brought the Net Zero Carbon Events to COP26. Find out what they have in store for COP27.

Changemaker Heidi Henning did just that for the National Association of Realtors—and during the pandemic, no less.

A passion for green meetings has led Changemaker Glenna Fulks to create new planning processes and a Master’s thesis.