Meeting Design Institute President Maarten Vanneste says rapid tech evolution is driving this format but many planners are not yet embracing it.

The next chapter of digital events will include speakers who are streamed as holograms. Learn about Vimeo’s new feature that will make the sci-fi-sounding world of 3D holograms a reality.

Dan Sundt, chief eXperience officer of CXO Marketing Inc., on experience design and how to avoid “better sameness” when designing events.

At the Skift Global Forum, one entrepreneur shared her blueprint for making mini vacations into rich learning opportunities — and her approach speaks volumes for event organizers.

Curt Watkins, principal at Watkins Research, on what’s changed in the CVB industry, and what planners are looking for now.

The evidence keeps piling up that smartphones — or more precisely, the way that most of us use them — interfere with our ability to focus and think deeply.

This summer, an article about a conference for physicians pulling out of its host city because attendees felt unsafe walking the streets of San Francisco — where open drug illness were on display among the homeless — became the tipping point for our editorial team. We had talked about covering the issue of homelessness for

Organizers of the Fifteen Seconds Festival faced unforeseen issues with U.S. immigration officials, but they aren’t letting those challenges cancel their first-ever event in Detroit next week.

As event organizers look to collect data from the next generation of participants, they must overcome a challenge much bigger than API integration: They will need to earn their trust.

Celebrating the best of the events industry, including top venues, ideas and experiences from all across the world.

Why do we meet face-to-face when we have email and video at our fingertips? Because it is the fastest way to gain shared perspective, according to author J. Elise Keith.

Nope, says artist Phil Hansen. In fact, age gives us unexpected benefits.