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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This Week on the Convene Podcast: Writing RFPs for Greener Events and What Our 2025 Salary Survey Reveals
Here’s what’s new on the Convene Podcast this week. Convene Article: Reaching Your Sustainability Goals Starts With Your RFP A panel of experts offer their advice on how to write RFPs that enable planners and their partner venues to collaborate on producing events...



