by | Dec 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where. Megan Conway Travel Portland has named current chief strategy officer Megan Conway as the organization’s next president and CEO. She will begin her new role on Jan.1, succeeding Jeff Miller, who is retiring...
by | Dec 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Janet Sperstad Janet Sperstad, CMP Fellow, is Faculty Emerita at Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin, where, in 2002, she founded the first associate’s degree in meeting and event management in the U.S. Sperstad was inducted into the Events Industry Council’s Hall...
by | Dec 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Emboldened by larger budgets and optimistic about in-person meetings, planners are focused on bolstering attendee engagement. Meetings and events professionals are optimistic about the industry in the coming year, especially with the expanded use of AI technology,...
by | Dec 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
This year, the event engagement experts at Swapcard conducted an anonymized study across 2,000 events with 2.5 million attendees in order to learn how attendees engage at trade shows, exhibitions, and conferences and to identify overlooked gaps and underutilized...
by | Dec 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
More than 20 restaurants dot the Avenida Houston entertainment district around the George R. Brown Convention Center, while the city boasts more than 12,000 restaurants offering diverse flavors. Some of the biggest perks of meeting in Houston, the nation’s fourth-most...
by | Dec 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
After the first of five Main Stage presentations, Convening Leaders attendees will spill out onto George R. Brown Convention Center’s front yard — Discovery Green — for the event’s opening reception, Jan. 12. PCMA’s Convening Leaders 2025, held Jan. 12-15 at the...