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Why the Most Online Generation Still Shows Up for Events — And How to Design for Them
Recent research conducted by MCI Canada reveals why Gen Z values in-person events — and what they seek from them.
Measuring what matters to the meetings industry, including our own meetings market, salary, and special-topic surveys. Plus ideas and innovations applied to the meetings industry, from authors and speakers working in a variety of fields.
What’s Ahead for the Events Industry in 2026?
In our recent Meetings Market Survey, Convene asked planners: Are you more worried or more excited about the future? We then put the question to a group of global event professionals. Here’s what they all said.
What’s Next?
How planners who participated in our annual Meetings Market Survey are bearing up in an uncertain geopolitical and economic environment and what they think the new year will bring.
Convene’s 32nd Meetings Market Survey Results
Responses from Convene’s Annual Meetings Market Survey show the varying ways that event strategists are managing uncertainty, maximizing attendee engagement, and adopting new technologies like AI.
Planners Share Their Recent Challenges and Rewards
Event strategists from around the world told us how they're staying flexible at a pivotal moment for the business events industry.
Salary Survey 2025: Payment Due?
We look into the question of whether event organizers are compensated well enough for their efforts, skills, experience, and contributions, using our Annual Salary Survey as a guidepost.
Resource Collective on Mastering Time and Productivity
Max Ohlenschlager is an experienced coach, trainer and author specializing in time management and productivity. Since 2011, he has been helping professionals increase their efficiency and resilience in the workplace
Convene’s Annual Salary Survey: Are You Earning What You’re Worth?
Our Salary Survey is now open — and we'd love to hear from you.
Trends Report 2025: Help — and Bleisure Time — Wanted
Hotel staffing shortages and bleisure trips will impact meeting professionals’ planning efforts — and their attendees’ experiences — in 2025. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Budget Woes Top List of Event Planners’ Biggest Challenges
Results from Convene’s 31st Annual Meetings Market Survey show that a dramatic increase in AV costs — plus rising fees from venues and hotels — are straining planners’ budgets.
Trends Report 2025: Event Attendees as Consumers First
How consumer behavior trends translate to business events: Meeting participants also are seeking connection with purpose. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Trends Report 2025: Meeting and Event ‘Destination Dupes’
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast.