If you had a major meeting in Q1 or Q2 of 2022, you’ve likely had some sleepless nights, thanks to your registration pacing. Here’s some help for that. 

After a year off due to COVID-19 in 2020, PCMA’s Capital Chapter switched its Hill Day advocacy event last year to virtual appointments with lawmakers and invited other PCMA chapters to lead the meet-ups — thereby increasing the number of participants and appointments. The chapter is building on that momentum for this year’s virtual Hill Day.

The leadership expert, coach, and author of Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success says it’s better to own our blunders and move on — even when we mess up in a public way.

The results of a survey of business events professionals in EMEA demonstrate their collective resolve to navigate a continually shifting environment.

Launched in 2012, the MAKERS media brand hosts an annual conference to help advance women in the workplace and beyond through storytelling and crucial conversations. Last year, COVID gave organizers a chance to rethink its ‘annual’ model.

On International Women’s Day, we spotlight a handful of conferences and events that have helped move the needle on women’s rights.

The international library and book publishing communities have not shied away from issuing strong statements or advocating for the removal of Russian state-owned institutions at industry events.

The percentage of women speakers at scientific conferences hosted by the journal Nature soared when the publishing and research company’s event organizers codified their efforts — and held themselves accountable.

An analysis of industries with more female than male workers — including the meetings industry — shows that gender inequities persist even when female employees are in the majority.

The ongoing frustration of the pandemic is sparking a new kind of event: the group scream.

Wunderman Thompson’s recent trend report, “The Future 100: 2022,” identifies 100 trends across industries. The Convene team has hand-picked more than a dozen of these trends that we think will have an impact on the business events industry. Here are three.

In an online roundtable discussion last week hosted by mdg, organizers of CES 2022 shared what worked, what didn’t, and what lessons they learned from planning and hosting the event during the worst of the Omicron outbreak.