Spark Editors
My Biggest Meeting Nightmare…
Meeting and event planners share their biggest meeting nightmares in this "What I know" confession.
Tech Straight Talk with Millennial Event Mastermind Liz King
In this shakedown, we asked Millennial event mastermind Liz King, of Liz King Events, what's on the horizon—from tech trends to 'is this tech really necessary?'
Doug Chorpenning on Millennials to Why Meetings Fail
As CEO and founder of wet paint group, Doug Chorpenning is tasked with helping organizations tell their story in creative ways. Here, he explains why meetings fail and how to spot these red flags before the game begins.
Designing Food & Beverage Experiences From the Verb ‘To Eat’
Marije Vogelzang designs food & beverage experiences from the verb “to eat,” tapping into the origin and cultural meanings of different types of food.
Sustainability & Cruising: If Ever the Two Shall Meet?
In this shakedown, we asked Guy Young with Uniworld River Cruises about the state of sustainable cruising in our industry and what initiatives Uniworld is taking to meet these efforts.
Debunking Myths About Employee Rewards
In this shakedown, we asked Melissa van Dyke of the Incentive Research Foundation to explain what's so groundbreaking about the IRF's "groundbreaking" study on employee rewards.
Build Your Conference, Build Your Brand
How did the data company Tableau grow its user conference from 200 to 8,000 attendees in less than eight years?
Increasing Audience Interaction with Unconventional Event Formats
Increasing audience interaction is key when planning for Millennials, whose epic appetite for engaging experiences can keep planners up at night.
Getting Keen on Curbing Event Food Waste
There is perhaps no single thing planners can do to make their events more sustainable and less wasteful than to curb food waste. Read how one successful planner is doing just that.
Using Crowdsourcing Techniques to Give Attendees What They Want
Event crowdsourcing techniques get attendees involved in the action long before the meeting or event begins.
Overcoming Event Uncertainty with Emotional Intelligence Techniques
How can event professionals, whose job it it is to eliminate as much meeting or event uncertainty from the outcomes as much as possible, deal with the uncertainty factor?
Starting an Event Planning Business Isn’t for Sissies
What does it take to start an event-planning business? Plenty of grit for starters, says Marley Majcher, CEO of Party Goddess, a high-end, West Coast event planning company that is popular with celebrities.
And Now Something Different: Engaging Generation Z
We’ve heard quite a bit in the last two years on how to engage Millennials at meetings, but what about the generation coming up after them—those born in the mid-to-late 1990s?
Time to Unlearn What We Know About Education at Meetings
Opportunities for professional education and information exchange have never been greater in this age of on-demand training videos, live streaming from university classrooms and virtual conferences that bring together communities of knowledge from around the globe.
