Event Strategy & Design
4 Design Options That Can Amplify Conference Content
As live conferences return, event organizers need to make complex decisions about how to incorporate digital product extensions into their business model. Here’s a framework to consider.
Meetings and Your Brain: How Sticky Notes Help Ideas Stick
The Spark Wall at EduCon 22 is one example of using sticky notes to share ideas at an event. Here’s the neuroscience behind it.
10 Ways to Make an Impact With Your Event F&B
Quick wins do not mean shortcuts, EduCon panelists agreed — making social and environmental impact takes time and planning.
HHH Volunteers to Help NOLA Residents Plan for Hurricane Season
Family care kits aim to take out some of the stress out of hurricane season and connect residents with resources.
Championing Connection and Community in Minneapolis
Meet Minneapolis’s CEO Melvin Tennant shares how the DMO is addressing stress from the pandemic, George Floyd’s murder, and other world events with strategies and policies designed to support employees and the community.
IMEX Frankfurt Exhibitors Promote Sustainability
The Scottish Event Campus will plant a tree for every meeting its representatives conduct with IMEX attendees, while visitBerlin will offer event sustainability checks for planner attendees.
Beer Company Steps up Game With Digital Meeting
The Boston Beer Company partnered with Van Wagner, a sports production company, to create a virtual corporate event that captured their employees’ attention more than their in-person annual meeting.
More Women Participated in Virtual Than In-Person Events
Two separate studies reveal that online events held during the pandemic resulted in increased participation among women as both as attendees and speakers, compared to their in-person, pre-pandemic versions.
Calling for a Regenerative Business Events Industry
It’s now or never. That stark assessment comes from the scientists who authored the most recent update to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released by the United
Conference Shares Prague Congress Centre With Ukraine Refugees
World Environmental Education Congress organizers had no time to plan a formal community service project for the Ukrainian refugees housed in the Prague Congress Centre during the time of their conference, but participants found ways to demonstrate their support.
Experience Columbus’ Return on (Diversity) Investment
Why a diversity apprenticeship program in Columbus, Ohio, is going all in on expanding access to management positions for people of color in the hospitality, travel, and events sectors.
3 Trends and Events: Rewilding Spaces, Foraged Cocktails, and Metawork
Wunderman Thompson’s recent trend report, “The Future 100: 2022,” identifies 100 trends across industries. Three of those — rewilding spaces, foraged cocktails, and metawork — already are evident in the events landscape but could become even bigger influences in the future.