Prepping Industry Speakers for Your Events
You may think you do a good job of preparing your presenters, but there’s a lot at stake. Here are tips to help them do their best and provide the greatest value to your audience.
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Enticing Attendees to Stick Around for the Last Day of an Event
Advice on the PCMA Catalyst forum includes suggestions on how to keep attendees engaged — and ensure they are not running for the airport — until an event is officially over.
Seven F&B Trends for 2020 and How Events Can Embrace Them
From plant-based meats to zero-proof beverages, Whole Foods’ experts predict the flavors, products, and culinary influences that might make their way to your event menu in the coming year.
How Eclectic Aspen Plays as an Event Destination
A walkable downtown and a range of venue and accommodation options put this mountain resort known as a playground for the wealthy within reach for events, Convene discovers on a recent fam trip.
Ameerah Saine and Building Communities Through Events
Event strategist Ameerah Saine talks about how she builds communities — and promotes diversity and inclusion — through her lifestyle brand as PCMA continues its Ascent Luminaries video series, made possible by VisitDallas.
How One Event Professional is Helping the Homeless
Windy Christner, CMP, senior director of meetings and expositions for American Pharmacists Association, is urging the industry to lean into — rather than try to plan around — the problem of homelessness in cities.
Convening Leaders Quiz Crystallizes Event Goals
New tool helps attendees identify what matters most to them and creates a suggested schedule.
Here’s How the Events Industry Could Slash Greenhouse Gases
Subbing in plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy, industry-wide, would have a dramatic impact, say the authors of a new report. So, what’s stopping us?
Two for One: How Organizers Combined a Food Writers Conference With a Food and Music Festival
When Hanna Raskin, food editor and chief critic for Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier newspaper, was elected board president of the Association of Food Journalists (AFJ) last year, she accepted under one condition: that AFJ suspend its multi-day conference. AFJ’s executive director, Amanda Miller, agreed. The national conference held Sept. 25–28, 2018, in Phoenix,
Stop Thinking of Your Event as a Finite Thing
Author and Convening Leaders keynote speaker Simon Sinek says we must adopt an infinite mindset in order to be successful — and that includes the way we approach our events and consider our competition.
Creating a Safe Space for Failure
Sessions that explore failures can encourage more meaningful — and enjoyable — learning. Here’s how a couple of organizations made room for failure at their events.
Digital Event Strategist: Summer 2019 – Engagement Strategy
This module examines the techniques for fostering attendee interaction, what the options of engagement and networking are in various types of digital environments and how they can be successfully implemented.