At a Lippman Connects Exhibitor Roundtable session, participants were given benchmarks to understand the new exhibitor landscape — and a simple checklist to help potential sponsors and exhibitors make the decision to invest in their shows.

Plastics are one of the most pressing environmental threats we face. And it is a threat that the events industry can do something about.

Is your cell phone distracting you at work and slowing your productivity? (Not if you’re using it to read us online.) That and other career-related news in this week’s roundup of workplace advice and trends curated by the editors of of Convene.

Taylor Swift’s fans are legion, but she has also attracted the attention of academia: In the past six months, two successful academic conferences have been built around discussing her impact on the economy and pop culture.

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

A new “Registration Insights Report” from Maritz draws on more than 360,000 attendee registration records over a three-year period to identify new registration booking behaviors, yielding surprising findings about who spends more — early birds or latecomers — at events.

The “2024 Speaking Industry Benchmark Report” offers insights into the current state of the relationship between planners and speakers — and how speaker selection factors into an event’s success.

The black-tie event closed out a busy Business Events Industry Week in Washington, D.C.