COVID-19 and the Business Events Industry

Convene reports on how meeting professionals are navigating coronavirus. Visit PCMA's COVID-19 resources page for more information.

Risk Brings Rewards for Event Production Company

Signature Production Group, previously specializing in live events, leaned into the pandemic shutdown, investing in and expanding its business to include virtual and hybrid production.

BY Curt Wagner May 12, 2021

How an Association’s Standalone Virtual Health Challenge Checked a Few Important Boxes

After being forced to cancel its annual in-person meeting, the American Association of Endodontists took a unique approach to digitally convening its members and corporate partners without trying to recreate its event online.

BY Casey Gale May 12, 2021

Same Pandemic, New Challenges

Unemployment among meeting professionals ticked upward this spring, according to a survey conducted by Global DMC Partners, as the challenges around meeting during a pandemic continue to evolve.

BY Barbara Palmer May 11, 2021

Webinar: Sacramento, California, Invites You to Opt Out of the Ordinary

In June, Sacramento will reopen its newly expanded and renovated convention center, bringing the best of the Sacramento experience to planners and attendees.

BY Jeff Dougherty Narimel Tarver May 6, 2021

5 Lessons Learned Returning to In-Person Events

One member of the PCMA Catalyst community shared his experience from the first in-person event he has attended since the pandemic began, saying it was not ‘like riding a bike.’

BY Convene Editors May 4, 2021

Denzil Rankine: ‘We Have an Extraordinary Journey in This Industry’

Denzil Rankine, coauthor of Reinventing Live, a recently published book on the future of events, talks with Convene.

BY Michelle Russell May 3, 2021

Is the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Open to Exhibition Organizers?

Convene reached out to the Exhibitions and Conferences Alliance for answers about the grant, part of the recently passed American Rescue Plan.

BY Michelle Russell April 30, 2021

What Do You Like Best — and Least — About Your Job?

In the latest Dashboard survey, we asked meeting professionals to tell us what they see as the highs and lows of their job as the pandemic continues into its second year.

BY Barbara Palmer April 30, 2021

PCMA EMEA April Meet-Up

A monthly virtual gathering for the PCMA EMEA community to share regional updates and make business connections. This event is open to the entire EMEA business events community.

BY Jaimé Bennett April 29, 2021

Events Professionals Weigh Conflicting Recovery Realities

Convene’s latest COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard survey results demonstrate how suppliers and planners continue to factor all kinds of challenges into their plans for 2021 digital, in-person, and hybrid events.

BY Michelle Russell April 28, 2021

No-Cost COVID-19 Testing for Event Registrants to Take at Home

AIM Meetings and Events has teamed up with Inspire Diagnostics and Unisys Corporation to offer a new test — at no charge to attendees — to assist the business events industry in returning to safe, in-person events. 

BY Curt Wagner April 26, 2021

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