To help conference participants better understand one another, de Jong has audience participants team up and ask each other this question: How do you see the future?

Facing the Future Together

Why Convening EMEA Main Stage speaker Thimon de Jong believes that cross-generation conversations about the future are the real resilience strategy.

Identifying the individual stressors that event planners face is the first step to measuring the impact of stress on the industry as a whole.

Planners Under Pressure

While it may be universally accepted that event planning is stressful in nature, there’s a lack of research to support — and mitigate — it. Angelika Bazarnik is “filling the gap” to change that, and she has some ideas about how stress contributes to planners’ salary dissatisfaction.

Hospitality professionals who work all along the Texas Gulf Coast will gather to collaborate on regenerative tourism practices.

Lifting All Boats

The first-ever Turning the Tide regenerative tourism summit brought together a mix of professionals from destination marketing organizations and municipalities along the Texas Gulf Coast to collaborate — even if they compete for the same business — on how to make sustainability the standard destination-wide.

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival aims 'to use the most sustainable alternatives always' to reduce the environmental impact of the annual event.

3 Ways This Global Festival for Professionals Embraces Sustainability

The natural environment is a key feature of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival experience — much of the event takes place outdoors. In keeping with that, the environmental impact of convening thousands of people in one place is top of mind for the organizers.

People on the Move

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

CEMA attendees are, first and foremost, event marketers sharing their best practices, experiences, and knowledge with one another.

CEMA Summit Celebrates 35 Years

CEMA Summit 2025 broke attendance records and introduced new initiatives for event marketers designed to keep their community connected all year long.

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