News & Trends

What’s happening — or coming up next — in the meetings and events world and beyond.

Visit Indy CEO Leonard Hoops on Achieving Work-Life Balance

Convene asked Visit Indy’s Leonard Hoops about whether he thought the post-pandemic emphasis on work-life balance would change the way the industry operates. Yes, Hoops said — and no.

BY Barbara Palmer June 3, 2024

Bringing the Maker Movement to Events

The founder and president of Make: Community reflects on why people become makers and the role the maker movement can play in events.

BY Michelle Russell June 3, 2024

Research Spotlights Present and Future Challenges for Planners

Late registrations and room-block bookings are an issue, but planners see more challenges on the horizon.

BY Curt Wagner May 29, 2024

Tech Company’s AI Reporter Helps Meeting Attendees Be in Two Places at Once

Siemens AG used AI to spread key insights from an internal leadership meeting to participants — and remote global employees — in record time.

BY Barbara Palmer May 23, 2024

When Lower Room Rates Affect Your Attendees

PCMA’s Catalyst community offers ideas on how planners can work with a conference hotel that is undercutting room-block rates.

BY Convene Editors May 23, 2024

Conference Illuminates the Art of Medicine

The Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Illustrators draws on advances in science, technology, and medicine to keep attendees up to date on techniques to explain the science of life.

BY Curt Wagner May 23, 2024

‘Human Interaction Is Critical to Our Success’

Teena Piccione, global transformation and operations executive at Google, is set to help the ECEF audience embrace change on May 29.

BY Casey Gale May 22, 2024

How CL24 Earned EIC Silver Sustainable Event Standard Certification

PCMA Convening Leaders 2024 achieved Silver certification for its sustainability efforts. Now it’s time to explore what considerations and steps are necessary to raise the bar in 2025.

BY Michelle Russell May 20, 2024

Waste Not, Want Not: Making Leftover Event Materials Serve the Community

After WrestleMania concluded in Philadelphia, the CVB found a way to give the professional wrestling event’s banners a second life, while giving back — joining several other large events that have made sure that what’s left over goes to a good cause rather than the landfill.

BY Casey Gale May 20, 2024

When It Comes to Taking Sustainable Action, Peer Pressure Works

Dozens of global studies — and a food scale named Wade — demonstrate that the influence we have on one another is a powerful motivator for changing our impact on the environment.

BY Barbara Palmer May 20, 2024

5 Ways to Move the Dial on Women’s Leadership in the Business Events Industry

A comprehensive look at why gender disparities persist in senior leadership roles in the business events industry — and ideas for how the global industry can create change.

BY Barbara Palmer May 15, 2024

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