Employees, members, attendees, and other stakeholders can feel excluded by your associations programs and processes. Building around an inclusion mindset can help. Employees and members tend to have common needs, and most leaders are savvy enough to maintain the key...

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...