Members of PCMA’s Catalyst community offer meeting manager some guidance on what international attendees need for their visa applications.

WorldatWork’s Courtney Mesmer developed a speaker coaching program to improve the participant experience at her organization’s annual conference. That initiative not only transformed the conference but rippled throughout the organization.

Indiana University Bloomington conference explores music star Taylor Swift’s lyricism, feminism, economic impact, social-media presence, and more through an academic lens.

Behavioral change management expert Dominic Thurbon on three challenges that leaders who are serious about change must grapple with. He will facilitate a session April 16 at PCMA APAC’s The Business of Events conference at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

Fifteen years ago, she coached speakers for the first major TEDx event. Hayley Foster has since built that initial experience into a successful business.

Speaker coach Hayley Foster — the Short-Talk Expert — shares some ideas from her book for speakers, Don’t Tank Your TED Talk.

A recent Washington Post article pointed the finger at a nutrition conference as an outlet for misinformation that can contribute to the obesity epidemic.

Here are some tricks to help you tame the inbox beast — and other advice in this week’s roundup of career-related news and trends curated by the editors of Convene.

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

Research from Freeman reveals that attendees value hearing from industry experts and from each other more than celebrity keynotes. It’s even more highly prized, the research suggests, than open bars.