The American Society of Hematology’s comprehensive strategy includes a stringent vetting process for journalists who apply to attend its annual meeting and detailed logistics to accommodate their needs and deadlines.

Name badges, long conference days, session lengths and formats, networking — event professionals offer more than 15 ideas to revitalize long-standing event practices.

Huddles are an alternative to exhibit halls, repositioning supplier partners as solution providers offering consultations in a non-hard-sell environment.

Here’s how a handful of event professionals think the events industry can create better experience for exhibitors and event participants.

Four event professionals and a social scientist share their insights into improving the food and beverage experience at conferences.

Understanding how to manage events in the face of extreme heat will become increasingly important as global temperatures rise. Event strategist Rhanee Palma shares her insights.

Post Dobbs decision, the destinations where the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine can safely meet have dwindled to a select few. Here’s how the association has navigated increasingly tricky legal contracts, member dissonance and advocacy, and the difficult decision to relocate the meeting at the last minute.

Plastics are one of the most pressing environmental threats we face. And it is a threat that the events industry can do something about.

Fifteen years ago, she coached speakers for the first major TEDx event. Hayley Foster has since built that initial experience into a successful business, helping speakers to focus on what makes their message unique and their presentation authentic.

Your speakers aren’t the stars of your show — their message should take the spotlight. In Don’t Tank Your TED Talk, short talk expert Hayley Foster offers a primer for succinct and compelling presentations you can share with your presenters to keep the audience engaged.

A recent Washington Post article pointed the finger at a nutrition conference as an outlet for misinformation that can contribute to the obesity epidemic.

How two CVBs — Visit Cincy and Visit Savannah — are managing group business during the transitionary period when their convention centers’ renovation projects are underway.