Panelists at a recent PCMA webinar agreed that all stakeholders — planners and suppliers — have to work together during this uncertain time and get innovative with business models. Here’s how a cartoon set the tone.

The United Fresh Produce Association made its annual convention into a digital experience and ‘built a year-round convention center’ for commerce, engagement, and learning. Here’s what’s worked and what hasn’t.

How an event tech start up pivoted its platform to support event pros through the COVID-19 crisis. Daphne Hoppenot is the founder of The Vendry, a marketplace platform that launched

PCMA’s COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard surveys offer insight into where planners and suppliers think the business events industry is headed. Here’s a look at how the results of the July survey compare to the same survey, also from July, in the APAC region.

To reach a distant, distracted (and distressed) audience, you must be a powerful virtual communicator. We’ll show you the new approaches needed to break through the noise.

When the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology was forced to quickly move its in-person event online for its first virtual conference, organizers’ biggest concern was how to preserve 1,500 peer-reviewed and -accepted presentations.

Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes, mdg’s chief marketing strategist, on why we need to stop thinking about events going back to normal and focus on changing outdated business models.

The Toy Association offers an affordable digital alternative to an in-person event, bringing together toy manufacturers (sellers) with specialty retailers (buyers) before the 2020 holiday season.

In what is the largest business events industry survey conducted for the APAC region to date, 531 event industry professionals — 342 planners and 189 suppliers — participated in the latest PCMA survey.

The TILT Group launched its BRIGHT video series, featuring speakers with uplifting stories and career advice, to give professionals a break from the stresses brought on by the pandemic and inspiration to move forward.

How the Live Events Coalition is lobbying for federal support for 12 million live events industry workers. 

When COVID-19 travel restrictions prevented mentors Boy George and Kelly Rowland from returning to Australia for the live shows, producers introduced a few workarounds — which may inspire ideas for hybrid event organizers — to make them seem more like they were on set.