Jorge Pesquera, retiring president and CEO of Discover The Palm Beaches, reflects on his more than 50-year career in hospitality and the changes he has seen in the DMO industry.

Convene’s editors do a lot of reading — to help inform our work and for pleasure. Here are some page-turners we recommend and why.

Each year, Convene’s editors pick one trend — it can be in the headlines or flying under the radar — they think will have an impact on business events in the coming year. Here’s what we’ll be following in 2024.

Tech Labs, a format that launched at EduCon 2023, is returning to Convening Leaders in an updated version.

The return of face-to-face meetings is good news, but it brings a host of pandemic-related and other challenges for event professionals as well. Convene examines the ups and downs that come with the job — both monetary and otherwise — in the 2023 Salary Survey.

The Olympic Games, the largest sporting event in the world, is aiming to make next year’s edition in Paris its most sustainable ever. What can the events community learn from its plans and its progress?

After $1.5-billion clean-up, Paris’ famous river Seine will welcome Olympic swimmers for the first time in more than a century.

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur’s torch concept for the Olympic and Paralympic Games blends themes of equality, water, peacefulness, and environmental consciousness.

Equality, accessibility are among the 15 recommendations planners — including the director of corporate and sustainable development — are undertaking for Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

After logging more than four decades at association management company Smithbucklin — and serving in a number of voluntary leadership roles in the association and events industries — Michael Payne will retire at the end of this month. Convene asked him to reflect on his remarkable career.

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant explains what we’ve gotten wrong about learning styles — and how thinking about them differently can benefit our audiences.

“We are so much more than layers of specs,” said one respondent to our Salary Survey who is seeking consideration from a boss.