Our environment plays an integral role in how we process information. At business events, knowledge transfer is more likely if we design settings that meet our participants’ evolving needs.

Respondents to this year’s survey anticipate that they will have more attendees and exhibitors at their events this year vs. in 2018. It remains to be seen whether market forces will temper expectations.

360 Live Media’s Don Neal shares three suggestions — inspired by how destinations attract vacationers — to whet registrants’ appetites.

Community culinary education programs help participants secure jobs and housing — and offer event organizers ways to support their efforts.

The WELL certification, awarded by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) in New York City, is measured not in water-saving “flushometers” or kilowatts of electricity, but in such human responses as comfort and calm.

WeWork designs shared workspaces around the world to meet an emotional as well as professional need among members.

The restorative properties of biophilia — the idea that human beings have an innate desire to connect with nature — can be used to make people-friendly workspaces, including meetings venues.

Steelcase Event Experiences planned a Braindate Lounge environment at Convening Leaders 2019 that would maximize collaboration and create a sense of ease and well-being.

Culinary program for the unsheltered teaches students kitchen — and life — skills.

At Convening Leaders, a large screen shared real-time data points with all attendees — thanks to machine learning and a few humans.

Tech companies see AI as a way to help solve pay inequity, but it’s not a silver bullet. Humans — and therefore unconscious bias — still enter into the equation.

One of the best pieces of marketing advice? Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Doing what we’ve always done comes easily, but it rarely produces new results.

When it comes to event-tech decisions, your rule of thumb should be that customer experience trumps staff efficiencies. This means that instead of organizing around your organization’s products or silos, organize around your customers.

Annual show brings tent-rental company owners and tent manufacturers together under one roof. Make that under one tent.

The responses to two new survey questions indicate that event professionals have an opportunity to play a bigger role in making the world a better place.

NPAPWS unites musicians, academic administrators, technology developers, and staff members from performing arts venues to understand how new technologies can revolutionize long-distance learning and collaboration.

The Georgia World Congress Center’s first-ever customer advisory board meeting was built on the power of the unexpected.

When ESSKA met in Glasgow last year, the event contributed £5 million in direct benefits to the city. That alone can be considered a worthy legacy. But ESSKA wanted to do more. Here’s a look at what steps it took.

How one Convening Leaders attendee took what he heard on stage in Pittsburgh to heart.

A city audit of VisitDallas offers a reminder that the vital economic contribution that CVBs make needs to be consistently spelled out to local lawmakers and residents.

The longest U.S. government shutdown in history went into effect on Dec. 22, 2018, and came to a close on Jan. 25, 2019. What that 35-day period made clear is that event organizers need to be prepared for a potential government shutdown at any time.