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Louisville’s Got More in Store for Groups in 2026
Louisville’s Waterfront Park is a national favorite, according to USA Today’s 2025 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards. Readers named it the best riverwalk in the U.S. After earning Groups Today’s Destination of the Year honor in 2024 and hosting PCMA edUcon in 2025,...
Seth Godin: Three Big Ideas
Seth Godin spoke on the Main Stage at Convening Leaders 2019 in San Francisco. Photo by Jacob Slaton/Whatever Media Group. Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of 18 books, including Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being...
Using AI to Minimize Registration Data Headaches
Spark can quickly find registration patterns in your event data, pointing out trends and suggesting segmentation strategies and messages that motivate prospective attendees to action. When Convene asked marketing and technology consultant Nick Borelli, who leads...
I Journeyed from Curious to CEM Certified and Never Looked Back
By Rita F. Mitchell, CTSM, CEM, CME | Assistant Marketing Services Manager | Shurtape Technologies, LLC More than a decade ago, while working for a Fortune 500 company within the trade show, exhibits, and event management department, a vendor mentioned the CEM...
Post-Con Survey Redo
Asking the right questions on surveys is the key to collecting actionable data. The post-con survey is key to measuring the success of your event and planning for the future, but planners continue to find it a challenge to get participants to respond. Unless you...
Reasons Your Attendees Will Love the Richmond Region
Meeting attendees might enjoy a stroll and shopping in downtown Ashland, one of the seven distinct localities that comprise the Richmond Region. American Express named Richmond, Virginia one of the top five U.S. cities experiencing the fastest growth in business...




