CL22 mask signs in lobby

Event Professionals Press Forward

The latest COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard Survey results reveal that planners and suppliers feel more hopeful as they face COVID’s latest variant — and that planners are less inclined to cancel their upcoming in-person events than they were when in the throes of the Delta variant.

CL22 registration desk

5 Consumer Trends Having an Impact on Business Events

A recent survey of 25,000 consumers in 22 countries by professional services company Accenture reveals that the pandemic has caused consumers to reevaluate how and what they buy. Here’s what that means for events.

Al Wasl Inside

At Expo 2020 Dubai, All Roads Lead to Al Wasl

The plaza and giant dome create an open-air lobby that doubles as the world’s largest 360-degree projection theater and connects all corners of the Expo 2020 Dubai’s massive 1,083-acre campus.

Katharina Path

Katharina Path, marketing manager for conventions at the Frankfurt Convention Bureau in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, shares what advice she gleaned about the events industry from Grand Master Yoda of “Star Wars” fame.

Christina Strohschneider

Christina Strohschneider, sales manager for associations at Austria Center Vienna, talks about the initiatives she has seen spring up during the pandemic that she hopes will stay with the business events industry.

Jennifer Yau

Jennifer Yau, senior association account manager for ICC Belfast, shares what innovations in the business events industry she hopes will remain after the pandemic.

According to the latest COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard survey, 60 percent of planners intend to mandate vaccines at in-person events.

Planners Take a ‘Wait-and-See’ Approach to Omicron

The latest COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard Survey results reveal that planners and suppliers feel more hopeful as they face COVID’s latest variant — and that planners are less inclined to cancel their upcoming in-person events than they were when in the throes of the Delta variant.

Digital Events Insights

PCMA and the AC Forum embarked on a research project to determine what the Business Events industry could learn from organizations and businesses that had to quickly pivot face-to-face events and gatherings, and what impact and/or how that can guide the industry’s approach to digital events in 2021 and beyond.

Howard Yu, Convening EMEA 2022

How PCMA EMEA Ran A Deconstructed Hybrid Event

Convening EMEA reunited global Business Events professionals from 29 different countries in Lausanne, Switzerland. Some attended online after the organising team made the forward-thinking decision to embrace the hybrid model and make their content accessible to those unable to travel.

Convening Leaders EMEA 21 lounge

Convening Sustainability

Groundbreaking energy tech and sustainable practices set the stage for Convening EMEA at SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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