Behavioral expert Thimon de Jong — who spoke last week at PCMA Convening EMEA — on the brain benefits of resisting the urge to grab your phone the moment a session ends.

Frank Wächter, senior digital marketing manager at Congrex Switzerland, is working to raise awareness of barriers to accessibility at events.

Here’s what to expect this week as the business events industry gathers in Rotterdam.

Ahead of her Main Stage opening keynote at PCMA Convening Leaders 2026, Jan. 11-14 in Philadelphia, The Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes spoke with Convene about three global revolutions reshaping our world, why in-person events matter more than ever, and how to navigate an environment defined by uncertainty.

There’s a big difference between what event participants want from networking and how most meeting planners view their role in providing it, according to a Freeman trends report.

More new-build and convention center renovations are designed for integration into the larger community, creating mixed-use spaces for convention-goers and locals alike.

A recent PCMA Institute webinar offered strategies for managing expenses in the current market and budgeting for the coming year.

The first-ever Turning the Tide regenerative tourism summit brought together a mix of professionals from destination marketing organizations and municipalities along the Texas Gulf Coast to collaborate — even if they compete for the same business — on how to make sustainability the standard destination-wide.

The natural environment is a key feature of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival experience — much of the event takes place outdoors. In keeping with that, the environmental impact of convening thousands of people in one place is top of mind for the organizers.

The evidence is mounting that leaning too heavily on AI can affect our ability to think critically and retain information. Here’s how to stay in the driver’s seat.

How a TikTok video berating hotel and conference staff at the National Federation of the Blind’s convention was turned into a learning opportunity.

A multi-disciplinary research report led by event sustainability expert Shawna McKinley offers a calculus of the risks posed to events by extreme weather — and the high cost of not planning for them.