Career & Leadership
A Few Tweaks Can Work Wonders for Meetings
More than 1,200 people participated in the 128th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) last year, which was held Nov. 13–16 at the La Quinta
How to Jump-Start Networking
What can urban planners teach meeting planners about creating environments that support conversation?
Do Your Members Trust You?
Trust in institutions is plummeting. What’s an organization to do?
Seeing the Unseen
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.
Tips on Culinary Marketing From a (Sometime) Food Writer
How can you more effectively market the flavor of a destination? Convene’s Associate Editor Corin Hirsch serves up some advice.
Behind the Scenes: Guiding Principals
Why we call PCMA’s annual Meeting ‘Convening Leaders’
Dorri McWhorter on Breaking out of the Bubble
Keeping Convening Leaders Fresh
Attendees play a key role in our collective-learning process.
How Airbnb Open Is Changing the Attendee Experience
The peer-to-peer sharing platform has disrupted the hotel industry. Are meetings next?
Small Cities With Great Taste
Food halls. Distillery trails. Michelin-starred chefs. The story of how smaller cities are using great food and drink to attract business events.
How Meetings Can Bridge the Divide
We need a new set of arguments to reach across the political divide. Can meetings provide a neutral common ground to bring people together?
3 Tips to Jump-Start Your Meeting’s Next Redesign
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.