At the SXSW Pitch Competition this month, three startups devoting time and energy to sustainability solutions were named winners, with another earning special attention. Plus, we spotlight a Travel + Leisure Global Visionary Awardee whose eco-friendly initiative for hotels makes it easy for guests to give back to the local community.

One minute, TikTok is banned; the next, it’s back. Then Meta decides to ditch professional fact-checking. Threads’ popularity skyrockets, then struggles to keep users engaged. Here are tips for navigating the shifting social-media landscape.

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.

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.

Nick Borelli, one of the event industry’s leading technologists, shares three ways to use Spark that most impress planners.

A new collaboration aims to get a web-based tool developed in cooperation with the United Nations into more organizers’ hands so they can more easily measure and report the climate impact of their events.

Younger attendees are using social platforms as search engines and, in the process, discovering brands. Here are four tips to help event brands drive engagement and boost attendance numbers in this new era of social media.

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.

The co-founders of Backtrack, a mobile app for recording exhibit booth conversations, went the extra mile to make connections and get leads at ECEF 2024. Their experience can help spark ideas for all kinds of exhibitors and sponsors.

Generative AI has swept the business landscape — including the events industry — but it takes time and effort to figure out its best uses.

There’s a paradox that more users of generative AI are noticing — it can make your writing sound more professional, but also more generic.

Two sustainability experts have created a tool to accurately measure an event’s true carbon footprint. Here’s the level of detail required.