A film competition shot at a hotel served a dual purpose: to celebrate the local filmmaking community and showcase how the property’s event spaces can be imaginatively transformed. Here’s how it worked.

The convention draws a diverse group of science-fiction fans, ‘Ancient Aliens’ enthusiasts, and the simply curious to explore unexplained phenomena — and it takes the same tack with speakers, inviting journalists, investigators, researchers, and scientists. Next month, it touches down in Dallas.

Velvet Chainsaw Consulting’s Dave Lutz suggests you hone in on five buckets to refine your customer-intelligence strategy.

Christine Renaud, CEO of e180, shares what she has learned about collaborative and peer-to-peer learning from how professionals interact using the company’s Braindate platform — including how to flip the traditional teacher/student model.

Tips on where to take your attendees in Salt Lake City when the meeting is over and the networking has just begun.

Event marketers have focused on how to engage millennials, but now Gen Z is entering the workforce. What are your best ways to get this new generation’s attention?

Event professionals in Europe and the U.S. are feeling uncertain about the global economic outlook, as well as how social and political changes will impact their events, according to research conducted by the Strategic Alliance of the National Convention Bureaux of Europe.

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