The National Association of Realtors Dropped the Bells and Whistles for the Sake of Better Content

The Optical Society’s Incubator program fills a niche by creating meetings for new and emerging topics.

Creating customized experiences for your attendees makes your event more meaningful to them.

Low-tech can be high impact when it comes to creating personal experiences.

Exploring the possibilities of using biometric data to shape experiences.

Still trending upward, but at a slower pace than last year.

James H. Gilmore’s ‘Look’ is a guide for seeing the world differently.

Inside Biofabricate, where designers use biological materials to make clothing, utensils, electronics, and more.

With this annual survey, we took a longer look back — over the span of 10 years, from right before the U.S. recession hit December 2007, through post-recession (mid-2009), to the recovery. Remarkably, some metrics in 15 key areas have held steady during the past decade.

Attendees want to customize their experiences.

EMS physicians don’t like to take their seats. Utility commissioners don’t always show up for lunch. How do their meeting planners cope?

As attendees spend more time glued to their smartphones and tablets, event professionals recognize that the on-site environment needs to create a hands-on, out-of-sight, so-good-you-can-almost-taste-it, turn-up-the-volume type of experience.