This week’s Convene Podcast unpacks how to navigate DEI backlash, how radical joy was infused into the Human Rights Conference, and what Fyre Festival 2 teaches us about trust in events.
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A mid-year update from Marketing General Inc. shows some softening in membership growth and renewals among associations across sectors — and draws a solid line to lower conference attendance.
How a TikTok video berating hotel and conference staff at the National Federation of the Blind’s convention was turned into a learning opportunity.
This week’s Convene Podcast explores how Minneapolis is standing strong on DEI, how Cameron Curtis sees belonging take shape in divided times, and what the world’s wildest science conference teaches us about when “weird” works in events.
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This week’s Convene Podcast spotlights inclusive event design — from REI’s approach to belonging, to practical strategies with Devon Montgomery Pasha, to how Create & Cultivate is reinventing women-focused networking.
A multi-disciplinary research report led by event sustainability expert Shawna McKinley offers a calculus of the risks posed to events by extreme weather — and the high cost of not planning for them.
Next month, Climate Week NYC is making a theater production part of participants’ learning experience. Here’s why.
This week’s Convene Podcast dives into DEI done differently, the roots of backlash against inclusion, and what new sustainability reports reveal about the future of events.
From cross-border moves to protect attendee safety to standing firm on DEI, this week’s Convene Podcast explores how the events industry is responding to political pressures.
New research shows how political pressure and shifting public sentiment around DEI is only making the work of corporate citizenship professionals more important to their organizations — and the same should be true for event organizers.
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