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How to Make Your Meeting Smartphone-Free
Some of the biggest names in entertainment are forcing fans to put away their phones. Can conference organizers deliver an experience without devices for their attendees?
DEI Spotlight: Ronda Keys, DES
Ronda Keys pursued the DES certification to gain a skill set needed by her (then) employer. Today, as the owner of her own events-management firm, she is putting that knowledge to good use for her clients.
Missing Baggage: Solved
Arrived at your destination and your baggage is nowhere to be found? Delta Airlines has a new app for that.
Walk This Way With Christian Mutschlechner
Christian Mutschlechner, director of the Vienna Convention Bureau, shares his ‘crazy idea’ for an upcoming congress.
Are Events Running Out of the ‘Wow” Factor?
As audiences grow more desensitised to live-entertainment spectacles, business events organizers need to rethink their high-tech production approaches.
The Power of Procurement: How Valuable Is Your Creativity?
There’s some give and take between creativity and managing the bottom line. For event planners, negotiation skills are an increasingly important part of the job.
6 Technological Breakthroughs That Will Change Health Care
From AI to VR, here are six technological breakthroughs shaping the future of healthcare.
How Being Yourself Can Help You Future-Proof Your Job
Judi Holler on why it is smart to be your most authentic self in the workplace.
Walking — and Talking — in Freud’s Footsteps
An upcoming World Congress on Psychotherapy will be held at a university in Vienna founded by Sigmund Freud. So why not adapt one of Freud’s famous ways of working to the congress agenda?
Harnessing the Power of Individual Influencers in Event Marketing
Social-media algorithms and overwhelmed inboxes are creating big challenges for reaching prospective attendees, but a new personalized approach is helping event organizers spread the word.
People On The Move
Your colleagues are on the move. Find out who is going where.
‘We Need to Engage in Under Five Seconds’
Tourism Australia’s marketing and communications manager, Monica Armesto, discusses the future of destination marketing and how to engage event professionals in an increasingly cluttered market.