Event Strategy & Design
2 Programs Refine Recipe to Reduce Homelessness
Community culinary education programs help participants secure jobs and housing — and offer event organizers ways to support their efforts.
CHEFS Training Program Goes Beyond Knife Skills
Culinary program for the unsheltered teaches students kitchen — and life — skills.
7 Fears Event Marketers Need to Overcome
One of the best pieces of marketing advice? Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Doing what we’ve always done comes easily, but it rarely produces new results.
This Show’s Soundtrack Should Be ‘Gimme Shelter’
Annual show brings tent-rental company owners and tent manufacturers together under one roof. Make that under one tent.
‘Profound’ Impact at AIME
Dialogue in the Dark pop-up at AIME let attendees experience blindness. It ‘was problem solving, team building, and personal development at its finest.’
Network Performing Arts Production Workshops Brings WorldWide Artists Together
NPAPWS unites musicians, academic administrators, technology developers, and staff members from performing arts venues to understand how new technologies can revolutionize long-distance learning and collaboration.
Customer Feedback: Rethinking the CAB Experience
The Georgia World Congress Center’s first-ever customer advisory board meeting was built on the power of the unexpected.
How to Design Human Experiences Amid Rapid Digital Change
Technology, strategists say, should enhance the live event experience and allow for frictionless communication.
Accessibility: What Clauses to Include in Your RFP
BestCities Global Alliance’s recent ‘Universal Accessibility in Meetings’ report offers tips on how to make business events more inclusive. Step one: Start with your RFP — here’s what other events organizers have included in theirs.
Leaving a Positive Footprint
When ESSKA met in Glasgow last year, the event contributed £5 million in direct benefits to the city. That alone can be considered a worthy legacy. But ESSKA wanted to do more. Here’s a look at what steps it took.
Give Your Attendees’ Brains a Break, Not a Workout
Two Convening Leaders 2019 sessions shared why cramming your education program with loads of content actually detracts from your participants’ ability to learn — and what you need to do instead.
When it Comes to Trade Shows, What Separates Men From Women?
The Center for Exhibition Industry Research analyzed what men and women seek to gain from attending a trade show and why their objectives differ.