Here’s what’s new on the Convene Podcast this week. Convene Article: Will This Be the Greenest Convention Center on the Planet? The Austin Convention Center has set its sights on becoming the first zero-carbon convention center certified by the International Living...

On the July 24 PCMA Institute webinar, “Budgeting for a Shifting Global Economy,” the challenge of attracting international registrants to events in the current geopolitical environment came up several times. One of the panelists, Jerry Murphy, senior portfolio...

Artrice McNeil The San Diego Tourism Authority has added Artrice McNeil as a national sales director focused on citywide group business from the Washington, D.C. market. She brings almost 20 years of experience in travel and tourism sales, most recently serving as...

Across the meetings industry organizations are finding ways to follow through on DEI while not calling attention to it. We approached this issue’s cover and CMP Series story as an extension of our focus in the June issue on how the business events industry is moving...

Poornima Luthra said that she sees the current moment as “a pivot point for companies and for us as DEI practitioners to really hold a mirror up to ourselves and say, ‘Are we actually doing what [we need to do] for the long-term, sustainable, systemic, and cultural...