Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis will keynote the 2019 PCMA Convening Leaders, the premier annual event for the business events industry, on Jan. 9 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Chris Wehking, Association and Business Relations Executive for the American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA); Eduardo Chaillo, CEO for Global Meetings & Tourism Specialists; and Lauren Kramer, Founder and Principal, Meeting Priorities, will be celebrated as Lifetime Achievement Honorees alongside 18 Professional Excellence Award finalists at the PCMA Foundation's 2019 Visionary Awards celebrating the best in the business events industry.
Perseverance and purpose are a common theme between corporate executive Steve Pemberton and activist entrepreneur Nadya Okamoto. The two will provide keynote addresses during the 2019 PCMA Convening Leaders annual conference, which takes place from Jan. 6-9 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Civic and corporate leaders from four continents will gather January 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a unique two-day discourse on how business events can create diversified and sustainable opportunities for economic and social prosperity.
A team of hospitality students from Kansas State University in Kansas won PCMA’s inaugural Business Events Industry Student Challenge for proposing how to protect personal data of people attending business events.
Creating tension should be a key factor in developing compelling business events, said bestselling author and Marketing Hall of Fame honoree, Seth Godin. Tension, he said, contributes to the fear of missing out, and that can create the buzz that helps make business events successful.
Tourism continues to dominate Asia Pacific’s travel industry, but the Corporate Incentive Travel segment (CIT), already representing one-quarter of the global travel industry, continues to make steady gains.
PCMA’s two 2018 European Knowledge Exchange events in November will feature industry leaders discussing how the business events industry can leverage disruptive technologies and create event experiences that drive economic and social progress.
The PCMA Leadership Committee has elected its 2019 Board of Trustees. Officers and trustees will take office immediately following PCMA’s annual meeting at the 63rd Convening Leaders in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in January 2019.
Karamo Brown, culture expert and television host for the Emmy-nominated Netflix series “Queer Eye”, will speak at PCMA’s signature annual event for the business events industry.
This year’s “Interaction with Intention” programme has been specifically designed to ensure business events strategists gain tangible learnings that will have a positive impact on their future events.
Exploring innovative ways to grow revenue beyond traditional sponsorship models will be the focus of PCMA's Knowledge Exchange in London. The programme, sponsored by visit.brussels, is designed for senior association professionals and will take place at the QEII Centre in Westminster, London on 25th October 2018.
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