What can urban planners teach meeting planners about creating environments that support conversation?

Trust in institutions is plummeting. What’s an organization to do?

How do you inject a familiar idea, or event, with new life? Two creative experts — Dan Goods of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Kati Quigley of Microsoft — share their sources of inspiration.

How can you more effectively market the flavor of a destination? Convene’s Associate Editor Corin Hirsch serves up some advice.

Why we call PCMA’s annual Meeting ‘Convening Leaders’

Attendees play a key role in our collective-learning process.

The peer-to-peer sharing platform has disrupted the hotel industry. Are meetings next?

Food halls. Distillery trails. Michelin-starred chefs. The story of how smaller cities are using great food and drink to attract business events.

We need a new set of arguments to reach across the political divide. Can meetings provide a neutral common ground to bring people together?

Hitting the ‘refresh’ button isn’t always easy. Stacey Chang, executive director of the Design Institute for Health at the University of Texas at Austin, has some concrete advice for getting started.

Participants may want more control over their face-to-face conference learning experience, but research indicates that it’s not a great design practice when it comes to online learning. Here’s what works better.