Smartphones distract users and those around them. Should speakers ask that they be put away?

A new Harvard Business Review report shows that more than half of corporations place more value on face-to-face events than other marketing channels and have upped their event activity. Yet they struggle to quantify their ROI.

Reaching an audience doesn’t have to require being on camera. Twitter is launching a new live-streaming feature for your ears only.

Organizers of the Fifteen Seconds Festival faced unforeseen issues with U.S. immigration officials, but they aren’t letting those challenges cancel their first-ever event in Detroit next week.

We think that we make decisions based on logic, but unconscious influences affect our behavior and judgment, says behavioral scientist Charlotte Blank.

At two successive food-waste conferences, attendees were given opportunities to continue to address this ‘societal breakdown,’ long after the events ended.

How Falling Walls, the International Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society, creates an atmosphere where participants collaborate on solutions to the world’s thorniest problems.

Our September cover story showcases three international events, two of which launched this year to address the challenge of human migration from completely different disciplines. All three hinge on bringing together perspectives from all over the world to focus on solutions to our most pressing issues.

We spotlight three global events demonstrating how it takes many villages to raise up society.

How a society traditionally focused on keeping business travelers and overseas vacationers healthy came to organize a conference addressing one of the world’s biggest challenges — tending to the health needs of refugees and the communities that host them.

In our October issue, Convene will be reporting on the issue of homelessness through the lens of the meetings and events industry — and we’d like to hear from you.