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Bingo: How a Lead Generation Conference Nailed Interactivity
At LeadsCon Connect, organizers devised a gamified way to deliver on its promise of connecting attendees and exhibitors.
One Way to Engage Attendees and Give Back to the Community
At WasteExpo 2024 in Las Vegas, organizers built engagement brick by brick with a LEGO wall — then donated all 18,000 LEGO pieces to a local non-profit helping children.
Event’s Casual Dress Code Is Tailor-Made for Networking
Here’s another idea in our continuing series on networking: NextGen event organizers who attended an afternoon education and networking program were encouraged to wear their favorite T-shirts and come ready to share why — a low-key approach to breaking the ice.
How Is the DEI Backlash Impacting the Events Industry?
As funding and support for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives decline in the U.S., event professionals consider the consequences for meetings, destinations, and associations.
Keeping Smartphones in Their Place
Ambivalence over the impact of social media is spurring interest in analog experiences.
Designing ‘A Beautiful Nesting Ground’ for Deeper Relationships
How software company Avalara turned networking on its head and delivered business and bonding at its FUSE partner conference.
Flying High: Polling Takes a Surprising Form at CEMA Summit
Corporate event marketers embraced an analog way of voting on topics — raising or lowering a balloon at their table — during a session by event experience company Projectory.
5 Top Universal Challenges for Event Organizers
Global DMC Partners’ most recent survey shines a light on everything from rising costs and managing budgets to AI adoption in the business events industry.
Do Stricter Return-to-Office Mandates Make Sense?
Amazon’s recent announcement that employees will be required to work from the office five days a week in 2025 sparked renewed — and heated — debate about the hybrid workplace. What has changed about hybrid work policies over the past year for event organizers?
Taking Advantage of Geography With an Unusual Off-Site
At ASAE’s 2024 Annual Meeting & Exposition, Destination Canada broke the brand activation mold by whisking attendees away for an afternoon on Ontario’s Pelee Island. Here’s how they pulled it off.
Shared Meals and Interesting Topics — 2 Ways to Better Networking
More ideas about how to create more intentional networking at events came our way than we were able to fit in our upcoming September/October print issue on that topic. So we’ll be sharing contributions from event planners in our newsletters. Here’s the first.
It’s Time to Ditch Those Tired Generational Stereotypes
When it comes to succeeding in the workplace, labeling people according to their age means we all lose. Consider shared values instead.