by Aidan | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Don’t look in someone else’s mirror expecting to see your reflection,” Denim Richards advises ahead of his edUcon Main Stage session. “Stay true to you but also don’t be so stuck in your ways that you are afraid to pivot [when something] isn’t working.” Perhaps you...
by Aidan | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, which hosted Vanessa Shannon’s edUcon session on performance psychology on Tuesday, chronicles the history of the world-famous Louisville Slugger baseball bats. For more than two decades, Vanessa Shannon, Ph.D., has coached...
by Aidan | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
CultureCon ’24 took place at the Duggal Greenhouse located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Photo courtesy Noemie-Marguerite Photography. In 2016, Imani Ellis was working in communications for NBCUniversal in New York when she started a small gathering of other Black...
by Aidan | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Event strategists can ‘center on the why’ to adapt to changing circumstances. “This is a critical moment for science convening,” Charlotte Farmer, D.Eng., senior vice president and COO of independent safety science organization UL Research Institutes, told Convene....
by Aidan | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Organizers are seeing attendee levels drop and are unsure about other disruptions to come. After Convene sent out an email invitation to participate in our pulse survey with the subject line “Is Global Uncertainty Affecting Your Events?,” I received an email reply...
by Aidan | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Nearly 2,000 leading researchers published an open letter accusing the current administration “of conducting a ‘wholesale assault on U.S. science.’” It’s not just a flurry of executive orders, sweeping tariffs, and massive federal funding cuts that are being felt by...