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.

Lindsay Krehbiel

Lindsay Krehbiel, Sales Coordinator at Smithbucklin and a member of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2024, shares how, if she had the power to do so, she would eliminate the carbon footprint of the events industry — and why event sustainability is important.

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.

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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.

Matthew Johnson, CMP

Matthew Johnson, CMP, Manager of Event Planning at Medscape and a member of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2024, explains why he chose the events industry as his career and what advice he uses every day.

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.

Sulena Gómez

Sulena Gómez, Coordinator of Government and Industry Relations at DMO/PROMTUR Panama and a member of PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties class of 2024, shares how she sees AI changing the future of work in the events industry.

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