We’re seeing a trend that association leadership is more open to making changes to the annual conference than ever before. It’s about time. 

As face-to-face events start up again, the ways we used to market them no longer work. Here are the new rules.

If you’re the person responsible for your organization’s meetings and trade shows in 2022, here are the capabilities your leadership is looking for you to master.

While event organizers are preparing for a return to in-person events, they still must decide if they will or won’t provide audiences digital options. These important considerations can help guide them.

After months of limited in-person social engagement, many in the business events industry are ready to experience real things, places, and spaces. Some organizations are doing just that, even through digital events.

What have we learned over the past 12-plus months — about ourselves, our roles, and the role business events play in the world’s recovery?

As organizers work through pre-pandemic contractual commitments, they are finding their supply-chain relationships tested like never before.

Even pre-pandemic, organizations recognized they needed to do a better job of engaging their audience year-round beyond their in-person events. Now it’s absolutely essential to make your content do the hard work of establishing your relevance.

A DHB program can get your revenue goals back on track, says Don Neal, CEO of 360 Live Media. Here’s how he believes you can get it right.

Not being sure about future plans is something Convene editor in chief Michelle Russell has come to embrace during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

As in-person events start coming back, the continuing COVID crisis will require that you have a well thought-out communications strategy in place. Here’s how to plan for whatever may come.

Convening Leaders reinforced our industry’s remarkable resilience — and our tremendous responsibility to spearhead economic and social recovery, writes PCMA President & CEO Sherrif Karamat.