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Erika Welling Sees the Potential in New Technologies for Our Industry
Erika Welling, CEM, DES has decades of experience as an innovative and highly driven marketing and operations leader in the hospitality industry. Erika has provided resources and guidance to many during her career, which includes senior-level operations and marketing...
What We’re Seeing: The Great Elephant Migration
The Great Elephant Migration exhibit is on display in New York City’s Meatpacking District until Oct. 20. (Courtesy BrakeThrough Media) Convene editor in chief captured this elephant being transported to New York City. Recently, I was part of The Great Elephant...
Events Professionals Offer Advice on Meeting in Extreme Heat
In the first six months of 2024, an “unprecedented” number of record-breaking temperatures were reported around the world, The Guardian reported. The 20,000-plus attendees who traveled to Las Vegas in July for EVO24, a global event where participants compete in...
What’s Holding Up Sustainability Efforts in Global Events?
Brian Peterson-Roest, founder of Bees in the D, the group that installed beehives on the green roof of Huntington Place in Detroit, leads part of a sustainability tour for attendees of PCMA’s edUcon 2024 at the venue. Sustainability-focused activities and tours are...
Reusable Cups Make a Splash at WasteExpo 2024
The decision to experiment with r.World’s reuseable cups was made only about a month before WasteExpo 2024 was scheduled to begin. (Courtesy r.World) The stackable, takeaway-style coffee cups that show organizers introduced last spring at WasteExpo 2024, the largest...
Events Industry Mourns Passing of Barbara Nichols
Nichols was an early Convene editor when the magazine was first published 38 years ago. She told Convene Deputy Editor Barbara Palmer in 2016 that as an early supporter of PCMA, she wanted the association to grow and “grow up” and she saw the magazine as being part of...




