Artificial Intelligence
A Legal Expert Offers Advice on Navigating AI’s Ethical Risks
Jill Blood, who helps lead the legal team at Maritz, on balancing the risks and the rewards of using AI in business event operations and data analysis.
Making Gen AI Your ‘Thought Partner for Innovation’
AI is reshaping business models, customer engagement, and value creation, but what lies ahead? AI expert Ayesha Khanna, Ph.D., explores the rise of AI agents, ambient intelligence, and the ethical responsibility that comes with innovation with Convene — and what it means for business leaders, including event professionals.
Mastering the Three Steps to AI Implementation
AI expert Ayesha Khanna, Ph.D., shares the three foundational steps every organization must take to successfully adopt AI — from structuring your data and aligning teams to ensuring ethical governance. Here’s how to turn AI into a strategic advantage, not just a tech upgrade.
AI Pulse Check: How Event Planners Are Using Gen AI
A look at how events industry professionals are using AI, what worries them, and why they should look beyond productivity.
Inside Spark’s AI Innovation Challenge: Spark ‘kind of just jumps in with you.’
How Spark helped the winning team knock out a long list of event planning tasks while racing the clock.
Trends Report 2025: Will Event Tech Costs Fuel Low-Tech Options?
The demand to create high-tech, awe-inducing spectacles at events could stretch planners’ budgets to the limit. Part of Convene’s Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Trends Report 2025: The Rise of Humans in an AI World
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene’s Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Boost Your Event Success With These Expert AI Hacks
Nick Borelli, one of the event industry’s leading technologists, shares three ways to use Spark that most impress planners.
How Fair Is It to Compare Generative AI Tools?
When a competition pitted Spark AI against other gen AI tools, it became clear that the outcomes depend more on the users than the tools themselves.
3 Ways for Event Planners to Strategically Incorporate AI
Most conversations about the use of artificial intelligence in the events industry focus on use cases that improve workforce productivity and performance for repeatable processes. Here are approaches that not only help you but help your event participants implement AI within their own organizations.
‘The Only Skill That Most of Us Need Is Curiosity’
The best way for event planners to use AI image generator? It helps to have a level of cultural competence, and the advice of a tech expert and EDI consultant.
Predictive AI for Attendee Acquisition and Engagement
A discussion at a recent Lippman Connects’ Attendee Acquisition Roundtable around how to use predictive AI to strategically grow your base of potential registrants got participants’ wheels turning.