News & Trends
Moving Your Meeting Amid Rising Reproductive Rights Concerns
Post Dobbs decision, the destinations where the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine can safely meet have dwindled to a select few. Here’s how the association has navigated increasingly tricky legal contracts, member dissonance and advocacy, and the difficult decision to move its meeting at the last minute.
What Event Sponsors Want
At a Lippman Connects Exhibitor Roundtable session, participants were given benchmarks to understand the new exhibitor landscape — and a simple checklist to help potential sponsors and exhibitors make the decision to invest in their shows.
Earth Day 2024: Ending Single-Use Plastic
Plastics are one of the most pressing environmental threats we face. And it is a threat that the events industry can do something about.
Academic Conferences Tackle the Taylor Swift Phenomenon
Taylor Swift’s fans are legion, but she has also attracted the attention of academia: In the past six months, two successful academic conferences have been built around discussing her impact on the economy and pop culture.
Rethinking Early-Bird Pricing — and Other Time-Honored Registration Strategies
A new “Registration Insights Report” from Maritz draws on more than 360,000 attendee registration records over a three-year period to identify new registration booking behaviors, yielding surprising findings about who spends more — early birds or latecomers — at events.
Survey Explores Speaker and Planner Dynamics
The “2024 Speaking Industry Benchmark Report” offers insights into the current state of the relationship between planners and speakers — and how speaker selection factors into an event’s success.
PCMA Visionary Awards Honor Business Events Leaders
The black-tie event closed out a busy Business Events Industry Week in Washington, D.C.
Is the RFP Process for Events Getting Easier or Harder?
A handful of event suppliers and organizers traded their insights on how the RFP process has changed since the pandemic during a session at Business Events Industry Week.
How Your Brain Values an Experience
Neuroscientist Paul Zak on how immersion is created — and how to make the most of it.
4 Ways to DIY a Speaker Coaching Program
Even if planners don’t have the resources to hire a professional coach, there are ways they can improve their speakers’ effectiveness.
Paying Attention to These Two Things Will Boost Your Productivity
Professional development expert Sally Foley-Lewis offers two common-sense tips to maximize your efficiency during hectic workdays.
How Have Panels Evolved — or Not?
A new survey will measure how the popular session format has developed over the past decade. Your participation is welcome.