The 73-year-old event is the place for all things paper — including greeting cards, custom invitations, gift wrap, tableware, and journals.

When the World Scleroderma Foundation decided it wanted to include a patient component to its international congress, it planned two parallel events: one for medical professionals, and one for patients.

The American Traffic Safety Services Association wanted to encourage innovation among future leaders in transportation engineering as well as find solutions to pressing safety issues. It found the answer to both in a student competition, which awards winners during its annual convention.

If your scientific or medical event is heavily dependent on participants who justify their attendance because you’ve accepted their oral or poster abstract, you may be diluting the quality of the conference experience. Think about this strategy instead.

Minimizing the environmental footprint of meetings is at the forefront of planning, but cities and convention centres are going further to foster community development, promote local culture, and leave a lasting legacy.

The Monterey County Convention & Visitors Bureau joins forces with a nonprofit to launch a global movement to reduce the use of plastics at meetings and events.

A recycling industry convention in Los Angeles united attendees with an unlikely group of guests for a morning run that went far in making meaningful connections.

What does it look like when a national conference is shaped as much by a company’s values as by its financial goals?

When a major craft and hobby show moved from its long-time host city to a new one, attendance dropped off. Here’s the creative approach event organizers and the show’s new host CVB took to win attendees back.

Thanks to acrobats, a Renaissance play, thousands of flowers, and a view of Rome, the International Bar Association’s dinner gets Eventex first prize honors.

PCMA made plenty of changes to its 2019 main event in Pittsburgh. We pull back the curtains from Convening Leaders to show the thinking that fueled the face-to-face experience.

The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority recently conducted an active shooter exercise to make sure its large venues are prepared to deal with what has become an all-too-common occurrence.