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How to Score Those Sweet Paid Speaking Gigs Like a Boss

Are you tired of talking to your cat about your passion for public speaking? Do you dream of standing in front of a crowd, captivating them with your words, and getting paid big bucks for it? Well, my friend, you're in luck. In this article, I'm going to show you how...

People on the Move

Laura PurdyLaura Purdy, general manager of Toronto’s Exhibition Place, has announced that she will retire at the end of May. She began her career in marketing and communications within the commercial real estate sector before joining SMG (now Legends Global). After a...

Non-Dues Revenue: Your Association’s Key to Sustainability

As dues income fails to keep pace with rising costs, organizations can diversify their revenue streams—or risk long-term viability. Today, many associations are faced with a fundamental question that will impact not just how they operate in the future but, more...

Sadie Noland

PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties program honors exceptional young leaders in the business events industry. Class of 2026 member Sadie Noland, marketing & sales specialist at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, sees strategic adoption of AI as helpful to enhance...
A Look Inside Convening EMEA 2025

A Look Inside Convening EMEA 2025

Rotterdam is the setting for Convening EMEA 2025. Convening EMEA brings together the business events industry throughout Europe and the Middle East to accelerate learning and growth. Building on the success of Convening EMEA 2024, which united over 600 business event...

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How to Make Meetings Matter More

Association events don’t always create the sense of belonging they promise. A pair of experts suggest some fixes.  Perhaps more than any one product and service an association provides, meetings are the industry’s proof of concept. If “belonging” is the main reason...

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How to Make Meetings Matter More

How to Make Meetings Matter More

Association events don’t always create the sense of belonging they promise. A pair of experts suggest some fixes.  Perhaps more than any one product and service an association provides, meetings are the industry’s proof of concept. If “belonging” is the main reason...

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CEM Spotlight on Stephanie Willes, CEM

Stephanie Willes, CEM has been planning events on some level for more than six years and is also the owner of Kairos Events & Logistics, LLC. As the Deputy Director of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Logistics Specialist of NeurIPS, she works...

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Limiting Situations

Limiting Situations

Attendees at the latest Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin moving between stages outdoors had to pass through a passageway lined by fences that kept a messy construction area out of view. One data point from this year’s Salary Survey that we didn’t explore...

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