How to Make Meetings Matter More

by | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized

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

by | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized

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

Limiting Situations

by | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized

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...
Meeting Magic in Orlando

Meeting Magic in Orlando

by | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized

“Happily Ever After” — a nightly show. As the summer reached its midway point, I traveled — along with throngs of families bound for Orlando — to see the most famous set of animated ears in the world. My experience would differ from the 50 million or so visitors to...