AI Leadership, Without the Boos

Graduates’ skepticism about AI is rooted in legitimate workforce questions. Executives need to deliver clearer answers.  AI is a lot of things these days. One thing it isn’t is an applause line. In recent weeks, multiple graduation speakers have tubthumped on behalf...
Blake Waravdekar, DES

Blake Waravdekar, DES

PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties program honors exceptional young leaders in the business events industry. Class of 2026 member Blake Waravdekar, DES, meeting coordinator at the Association of American Medical Colleges, learned early on in her career that even the most...
Learning as an Art Form

Learning as an Art Form

Art plays a central role in ISTElive’s experiential sessions. ISTE, which stands for the International Society for Technology in Education, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping its members — educators, school leaders, and industry experts — transform the...
Factoring Art Into Meeting Design

Factoring Art Into Meeting Design

“Searchlight Rays” by Karen Amanda Harris was part of the 2025 Bridges exhibit. Robert Fathauer brought the idea of adding an art exhibit to the organizers of the American Mathematical Society’s (AMS) Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in 2004, when the conference was...