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When Lower Room Rates Affect Your Attendees
PCMA’s Catalyst community offers ideas on how planners can work with a conference hotel that is undercutting room-block rates.
Conference Illuminates the Art of Medicine
The Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Illustrators draws on advances in science, technology, and medicine to keep attendees up to date on techniques to explain the science of life.
News for Professionals: Career Advice and Ideas
Not happy with the quality of feedback you're getting? Be more specific when you ask for it. That and other career-related advice in this week’s roundup of workplace news and trends curated by the editors of Convene.
‘Human Interaction Is Critical to Our Success’
Teena Piccione, global transformation and operations executive at Google, is set to help the ECEF audience embrace change on May 29.
People on the Move
Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.
Alison Melvin
Alison Melvin, Conference & Convention Account Executive at The Classic Center and a member of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2024, talks about the rising prices of goods and services within the events industry, and offers planners ideas to help curb those costs.
How CL24 Earned EIC Silver Sustainable Event Standard Certification
PCMA Convening Leaders 2024 achieved Silver certification for its sustainability efforts. Now it’s time to explore what considerations and steps are necessary to raise the bar in 2025.
Waste Not, Want Not: Making Leftover Event Materials Serve the Community
After WrestleMania concluded in Philadelphia, the CVB found a way to give the professional wrestling event’s banners a second life, while giving back — joining several other large events that have made sure that what’s left over goes to a good cause rather than the landfill.
When It Comes to Taking Sustainable Action, Peer Pressure Works
Dozens of global studies — and a food scale named Wade — demonstrate that the influence we have on one another is a powerful motivator for changing our impact on the environment.
News for Professionals: Career Advice and Ideas
Bye-bye Bestie: Today’s workforce isn’t particularly interested in office friendships, recent research shows. That and other career-related trends in this week’s roundup of workplace news and advice curated by the editors of Convene.
Laura Matley
Laura Matley, Manager of Business Events at Ottawa Tourism and a member of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2024, shares why she thinks sustainable event management is an opportunity for the business events industry, but also will create challenges for event professionals.
5 Ways to Move the Dial on Women’s Leadership in the Business Events Industry
A comprehensive look at why gender disparities persist in senior leadership roles in the business events industry — and ideas for how the global industry can create change.