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Your Content Using AI
One of the greatest opportunities for leveraging AI in 2026 for your session content is not creating more of it, but rather chunking it into digestible, bite-sized snacks.
5 Insights — and a Few Surprises — From B2B Event Attendee Research
A recent annual report on experiential events yields five key learnings and shines a light on different generational expectations.
Bridging Our Divides
We live in a polarized world. How can events bring people together and restore civility without glossing over our differences and challenges?
Setting the Stage for Difficult Conversations at Events
Sometimes, difficult discourse isn’t about sharing conflicting perspectives but addressing serious issues your group shares in common. An Opening General Session that acknowledges the challenges your community is experiencing while also uplifting them may require more than a nice speech by an earnest speaker. For the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference, it took a primal scream — and a few animals.
6 Planning Habits That Hold Events Back (And What to Do Instead)
Some longtime habits do more harm than good. Here are some to consider letting go of as you design future events.
Scaling Dignity
How a conference for municipal leaders helped spur a movement toward civil discourse in the political arena and beyond.
Setting the Tone for Civility
A code of conduct for events should go beyond preventing harassment and set the standard for treating fellow participants with respect.
‘Disagree With Ideas, Don’t Dehumanize People’
A new movement to give people tools to have more productive and humane disagreements is gaining ground.
A Turning Point for the Business Events Industry
Celebrating our 70th anniversary with our eyes on the future.
Seen Another Way
Having just returned from Convening Leaders (CL) in Philadelphia as I write this, my head is swirling with conversations from the stage and in the hallways, snippets of which mesh with the stories we’ve worked on for this issue. The thread I keep pulling? The importance of reframing.
Grounds for Gathering
This association for groundskeepers makes it a practice to co-locate their annual event with a trade show, doubling the educational and networking opportunities for attendees.
Filling a Hospitality Talent Gap While Giving Back: New Initiative Uplifts a Community
For more than 25 years, a Philadelphia food bank has provided low-income residents a pathway to employment in food service. A new partnership with the Philadelphia CVB and Michelin seeks to elevate and expand career opportunities for those students while filling a need in the local hospitality sector.