*TECH MEETINGS TOUGH ON PLANNERS

Meetings that focus on technology education are "the most difficult meetings to produce," says William J. Myers, CAE, CMP, and COO of the Professional Convention Management Association in Birmingham, Ala. As a member of the team that plans METCON (Meetings & Exhibitions Technology Conference), the two-year-old meeting jointly presented by PCMA and the Washington, D.C.-based American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), Myers has had an up-close look at those difficulties.