The new interactive tool displays key trade-show cities and event attendance for past 90 days, plus local opening guidelines, rules for pro sports, and a link each city’s guidelines.

When the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) went virtual due to COVID-19, virtual watch parties were a popular way for audience members to have a shared experience.

Euromonitor International has identified 10 shifts in consumer sentiment and behavior as a result of the pandemic — and each yields insights for business events today and tomorrow.

In a Convening Leaders session earlier this month, Julia Gillard, former prime minister of Australia, shared what she misses about in-person events and how she hopes digital events will evolve.

As in-person events start coming back, the continuing COVID crisis will require that you have a well thought-out communications strategy in place. Here’s how to plan for whatever may come.

Convening Leaders reinforced our industry’s remarkable resilience — and our tremendous responsibility to spearhead economic and social recovery, writes PCMA President & CEO Sherrif Karamat.

‘Co-presence’ is starting to find its way into virtual exhibition halls. Organizers of the Morningstar Investment Conference (MIC) offered a virtual reality experience for exhibitors and meeting participants at their fall digital event.

Over the past year, industry experts have proclaimed that meetings and conferences are forever changed and hybrid is here to stay. Agreed, says Velvet Chainsaw’s Dave Lutz, but in order to be successful, meetings of the future also will need to embrace the tenets of strategic product management.

Casandra Matej, who takes over Feb. 1, discusses the perks of relocating to Orlando from San Antonio, the future of face-to-face meetings, and how she sees DMOs evolving in the future.

Tune in to a candid conversation about challenges and major takeaways from designing and producing PCMA’s first-ever global hybrid conference.

Convening Leaders speaker and innovation coach Shamira Miller on getting the wheels of inspiration spinning.

Tycoon Events launched the Virtual Event Resource in June, which spells out important information about emerging digital event platforms.