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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?

BY David McMillin February 15, 2018

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.

February 14, 2018

Missing Baggage: Solved

Arrived at your destination and your baggage is nowhere to be found? Delta Airlines has a new app for that.

February 13, 2018

Walk This Way With Christian Mutschlechner

Christian Mutschlechner, director of the Vienna Convention Bureau, shares his ‘crazy idea’ for an upcoming congress.

February 13, 2018

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.

February 13, 2018

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.

February 13, 2018

6 Technological Breakthroughs That Will Change Health Care

From AI to VR, here are six technological breakthroughs shaping the future of healthcare.

BY Barbara Palmer February 13, 2018

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.

BY Casey Gale February 13, 2018

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?

BY Convene Editors February 13, 2018

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.

BY David McMillin February 12, 2018

People On The Move

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

BY Casey Gale February 12, 2018

‘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.

February 12, 2018

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