Trends Report 2025: Will Event Tech Costs Fuel Low-Tech Options?
The demand to create high-tech, awe-inducing spectacles at events could stretch planners’ budgets to the limit. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast ...
Trends Report 2025: The Rise of Humans in an AI World
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events ...
Budget Pressures and Big Expectations: Insights From the Meetings Market Survey
Responses from business event organizers to the 31st Convene Meetings Market Survey reflect an acceptance of difficult market conditions, cautious optimism about the future, ...
The Pitfalls of Predicting the Future
We’ve changed things up this year with our Annual Industry Forecast to give you more pointed insights for what may lie ahead ...
One Key to Preventing Your Team’s Burnout
Work can be difficult, but it shouldn’t be difficult all the time, shows new research from a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s ...
What Makes a Great Place to Work
Responses to Convene’s Annual Salary Survey 2024 confirm the qualities of a healthy workplace culture recognized by workplace culture company Great Place to Work ...
Salary Survey 2024: It’s Not You, It’s the Company Culture
What’s the difference between planner respondents to this year’s Salary Survey who are happy in their jobs and those who are not? It doesn’t ...
Future-Proofing the Events Industry: Findings from the PCMA Executive Leadership Summit
In an era marked by swift evolution, global challenges, and shifting expectations, the event industry faces the ever-present risk of yet another upheaval ...
Next Gen Leaders Speak Up: Their Future in Focus
What can we do to keep the next generation of event professionals in the industry? What do they need to thrive? ...
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 ...
Advancing Women in the Business Events Industry
PCMA Foundation and Business Events Sydney (BESydney) conducted a research project to engage the business events community on the specific and meaningful actions that ...
Convene’s Annual Salary Survey: Are You Earning as Much as Your Peers?
Help us understand better what has changed from 2023, including how your role is evolving, the challenges you face, what your workplace environment is ...