COVID-19 and the Business Events Industry
Ensuring Compliance During COVID at In-Person Events
In the summer of 2020, three CMPs came together to create the Pandemic Compliance Advisor course, which offers continuing education credits and a new designation for meeting professionals.
Webinar: Let’s Get Hybrid! How to Create Successful Events In a Post-Pandemic World
We’re all gearing up for Hybrid Events. This expert panel will bring multiple perspectives to the table about how to define hybrid events, ways to create exceptional experiences for all your audiences, and what’s needed to define and implement a successful hybrid strategy.
Webinar: GATHER by Events DC
Learn how organizers can host virtual and hybrid events with GATHER by Events DC, a virtual venue that leverages the new state-of-the-art production studio within the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to create and stream digital events.
Airbn-Be There Through Virtual Travel
With travel still largely on hold, the company’s Online Experiences are giving guests a chance to see, touch, and taste new destinations from home.
Taking the Pomp out of Pomp and Ceremony
How a digital makeover turned a formal ceremony into a community celebration that brought hundreds of people together.
ICC Sydney’s CEO on the Event Industry’s Recovery and Its ‘Silent Sufferer’
In an email interview with Convene, ICC Sydney CEO Geoff Donaghy shared local industry challenges, his concerns about the unseen impact of the COVID pandemic, and a timeline for the return of face-to-face events.
Booking Meeting Venues Site Unseen
The digital tools that make it possible to conduct all or part of site visits remotely have come to the forefront over the last year, in ways that may change how planners book meetings in the future. Planners and destinations share their strategies.
How to Survey Attendees About the Return to In-Person Events
Are surveys useful in gauging attendees’ interest in face-to-face meetings? What questions should planners ask? Members of the PCMA Catalyst community recently discussed the topic.
Getting Closer to Face-to-Face
The latest COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard shows that planners are focusing more of their efforts on the return to in-person events.
Digital or In-Person? Gen Z’s Surprising Pick for Future Events
PCMA didn’t ask generational experts to theorize what the next generation entering the workforce values about business events. Instead, PCMA asked them themselves. Here’s what they had to say.
What LEGO, Economic Development, and Events Have in Common
Economic Development Winnipeg found a way to use a team member’s pandemic pastime and LEGO sets to help explain in simple terms how tourism and business events are integral to economic development.
Why the Digital Hosted Buyer Program Is Your Best Bet
A DHB program can get your revenue goals back on track, says Don Neal, CEO of 360 Live Media. Here’s how he believes you can get it right.