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The Truth About Exhibit Spending
By Mary Tucker | Senior Communications and Content Manager | IAEE Exhibitor marketing budgets have shifted significantly since the pandemic, but are your allocations keeping pace with where the industry is actually headed? What channels are getting the biggest...
People + Innovation for a Sustainable Future
The inaugural Convene 4 Climate sustainability conference was held in Barcelona, Spain. In mid-September, global business event leaders, sustainability experts, and innovators will gather at the third annual Convene 4 Climate (C4C) conference, taking place this year...
The Future of the Events Industry Is Personal
The relationships formed at this year’s inaugural International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, held in Santa Marta, Colombia, show the potential of new personal connections formed at events. What has struck me most in my early weeks as editor in...
Meetings, Made Personal
This article and those listed below are part of Convene’s August 2026 issue. Find the turn-page versions of this and past issues in our digital library. Illustrations by Margherita Caspani “How scared should meeting planners be?” Convene asked that question in 2013,...
The Surprising Power of Speaking From the Heart
More than 500 travel content creators and entrepreneurs attended Women in Travel Summit, held this past May in Chattanooga, Tenn. Women in Travel Summit (WITS) bills itself as the world’s largest gathering of women travel content creators, bringing more than 500...
Conference Rooms That Talk Back Create New Opportunities for Engagement
Participant feedback and interaction are woven into every element of the Strategic Management Society’s annual global conference. The Strategic Management Society (SMS) has a head start when it comes to building interactive sessions into its annual global conference...




