Author and Convening Leaders keynote speaker Simon Sinek says we must adopt an infinite mindset in order to be successful — and that includes the way we approach our events and consider our competition.

In our annual Events Industry Forecast, Convene’s editors take a look at the top trends and new ideas shaping the meetings industry — and what’s on the horizon.

In early 2018, when Marriott reduced its longtime commission structure by 3 percent, everything changed for independent meeting professionals. Nearly two years later, here’s a look at how three have strategically worked through that challenge.

What consumer and business trends are most relevant to events? Speakers at CEIR Predict, the Center for Exhibition Industry Research’s annual exhibition outlook conference, identified three that deserve attention.

Associations leave a wide-range of enduring legacies. Now, through a new award program, their impact goes even farther — including this year to fight kidney disease in Laos and help a music nonprofit that has a school in South Africa.

Here’s advice from planners on the PCMA Catalyst forum about what to do when a venue tacks on event fees and other surprise charges.

The threat gun violence poses to society — and specifically to face-to-face events — led Event Leadership Institute’s Howard Givner to spearhead an industry-wide campaign for reform.

We live in an era of unicorns (early-stage companies with a market cap valued at $1 billion-plus), and a time when business entrepreneurs are touted in Fast Company and Wired as our economy’s future. How can event organizers ride the wave of the exciting and lucrative startup world?

The Center for Exhibition Industry Research’s new study finds that eight out of every 10 exhibitors have invested in sponsorships in the past two years.

San Diego, Nashville, and Singapore are trending for 2020 in Global DMC Partners’ annual Global Destination Index, which presents the most popular meeting and incentive destinations for and identifies up-and-coming markets.

Cloud kitchens, food halls, and experiential F&B — including meals fully prepared and served by robots — are among the dining trends that are “creating disruptions” in the Middle East,

Gina Glantz co-founded GenderAvenger five years ago to help ensure that women are equally represented as speakers at conferences. Lately, Glantz says, ‘something extraordinary’ has been happening.