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Safe Spaces for Feelings
A Convene reader asks how event organizers can help communities navigate ambivalence, fear, and anger over climate change at their meetings.
Clintons Stress Value of F2F Meetings to Combat Divisiveness
During a Convening Leaders 2024 fireside chat, President Bill Clinton and 67th Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discussed the need for fostering human connections — and how that happens at in-person events.
The Clintons Are Coming
President Bill Clinton and 67th Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will kickstart day two of Convening Leaders.
What Not to Miss at Convening Leaders 2024 in San Diego
Here's what the more than 4,000 attendees descending upon the San Diego Convention Center can expect at PCMA's annual event.
Nina Schick: ‘The Business Events Industry Must Be Vigilant’ Concerning AI
Main Stage presenter Nina Schick applies her AI expertise to the events industry in a pre-Convening Leaders Convene interview.
A Deeper Dive Into our Salary Survey Data
Here’s a closer look at who responded — according to their professional roles — to Convene’s 2023 Salary Survey.
Six Event Trends We’re Watching in 2024
Each year, Convene’s editors pick one trend — it can be in the headlines or flying under the radar — they think will have an impact on business events in the coming year. Here's what we’ll be following in 2024.
Salary Survey 2023: Highs and Lows for Event Pros
The return of face-to-face meetings is good news, but it brings a host of pandemic-related and other challenges for event professionals as well. Convene examines the ups and downs that come with the job — both monetary and otherwise — in the 2023 Salary Survey.
Game Changer: Paris 2024 Olympics Takes Bold Strides Toward Sustainability
The Olympic Games, the largest sporting event in the world, is aiming to make next year’s edition in Paris its most sustainable ever. What can the events community learn from its plans and its progress?
Navigating the Unthinkable: Why Event Professionals Should Prioritize Risk Mitigation
Event professionals must have mitigation and response plans in place for all risks — whether they are human-caused, natural or weather-related, or technological failures. Security expert and Convening Leaders 2024 speaker John Gainer offers his advice on how to plan for whatever may come.
What Event Professionals Like Most — and Least — About Their Jobs
Respondents didn’t hold back when asked to share how they feel about their jobs — the good, the bad, and the ugly — in several open-ended questions in Convene’s Salary Survey 2023. Here’s a taste of what they had to say.
The Rise of LinkedIn
The popularity of social media’s most businesslike channel — LinkedIn — has exploded in recent years, including among event professionals.