Event Strategy & Design

From the physical set-up to the way you orchestrate sessions and interaction, we help you put the latest smart thinking into practice to create environments and experiences that have an impact.

Exploring Capacity Limits for In-Person Events

Do capacity limits for indoor meetings include event staff? A handful of event professionals recently shared their knowledge on PCMA’s Catalyst forum.

BY Convene Editors March 22, 2021

Digital Event Strategist Spotlight: Liza Lampi, Owner, Eventive Meetings

What do you do when the pandemic has disrupted the way you conduct business? Do you give up and wait for this to blow over and a sense of normalcy to take place? Or do you re-skill, become nimble and turn your eyes toward the future? Liza Lampi, owner of Eventive Meetings was faced with that exact scenario.

March 19, 2021

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.

BY Casey Gale March 18, 2021

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.

BY Joe Felperin Lisa Block Deborah Stokes Tyra Dyson Meghan Gowen March 17, 2021

Digital Event Strategist Spotlight: Erica Gifford, Marketing Project Specialist at APITech

Digital events transcend sectors, professions and companies. If 2020 has shown us anything it is that the world was not ready for such an abrupt transition toward digital, yet as we take bigger steps each day, digital is seeping into our way of life. Erica Gifford, Marketing Project Specialist at APITech had to make that transition with developing over 50 digital courses using what she learned in the DES Course.

March 17, 2021

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.

BY David McMillin March 15, 2021

Can Venues Have a Say in Event Set Design?

The controversy around how the recent Conservative Political Action Conference stage set bore a resemblance to a Nazi hate symbol raised the question: How much influence can a host venue exert over the staging of an event? We asked an attorney to weigh in.

BY David McMillin March 15, 2021

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.

BY Barbara Palmer March 15, 2021

Digital Event Strategist Spotlight: Ronald Lim, Co-Founder & Event Producer, Think Events

Ronald Kim, Co-founder & Event Producer, Think Events started this journey of technological discovery back in 2018. That forward thinking didn’t magically make the pandemic easier; he still needed to navigate the landscape of a digital event. Here is his story.

March 15, 2021

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.

BY Kate Mulcrone March 10, 2021

Online Event Producers Can Take Cues From This Recent Tennis Tournament

With fans not allowed at sporting events in the Netherlands, organizers of a professional tennis tournament at Rotterdam Ahoy tweaked the setting to enhance the experience of fans watching on TV.

BY Curt Wagner March 10, 2021

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.

BY Michelle Russell March 3, 2021

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