Inspiring Tablescapes
When the event industry came to a halt, the team from plan A, a Los Angeles–based corporate event agency, got together to do what they do best—create and design. In this case, it was tablescapes.
Post-COVID-19 Meetings
Paul Van Deventer, president and CEO, Meeting Professionals International offers his insights on what meetings will look like in a post-COVID-19 world.
Roger Dow: A New Landscape
Industry insiders agree that the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has changed meetings and conventions forever and we turned to Roger Dow for his insights.
Virtual Connectedness
The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis has forced many event cancellations and postponements, and virtual connectedness is more important than ever.
3 Attendee-Driven Strategies
The big mistakes meeting planners make usually have to do with viewing their meetings as the organizer, versus considering perspectives of their attendees.
Trends Transforming Meetings
Benchmark, a global hospitality company, has compiled 5 major trends transforming meetings in 2020, from giving back to sustainability.
Event Design With Color
When it comes to event design, the most talented and effective meeting professionals know that colors can have a powerful affect on emotions.
Event Venue Hits the Mark
A successful event venue captures the attention of those attending while coinciding with the message or theme being conveyed. That is exactly what the Monaco Tourist Office did at Sabatino Truffles.
Most Popular Meeting Cities for 2020
The most popular meeting cities, according to CWT M&E, the global meetings and events division of CWT, consists of London as number one.
Report Finds Nearly Two-Thirds of Event Speakers are Male
Despite blowback in recent years around the phenomenon of all-male speaker panels (“manels”), not much progress is being made when it comes to event speakers, according to the new Gender Diversity & Inclusion Report...
Heat-Mapping Can Increase Your Meeting ROI
Seeing traffic flow in real-time through heat-mapping can allow for timely adjustments and post-event analysis, thus increasing the meeting ROI.
Sharing-Economy Venue Booking Platforms Help Planners Find Space
Peerspace, Splacer, Spacebase, Bizly, MeetingsBooker, and other shared-economy venue booking platforms make it easy for planners to find non-traditional and unusual venues.
Pros’ Site Inspection Tips
A top challenge for service professionals in 2020 is the site inspection, according to Event Service Professionals Association (ESPA).
Haute Dokimazo’s Secret Family Reunion
Eighty event and marketing pros signed up for HD’s “Secret Family Reunion” with no idea where they were headed until two hours before their chartered flight took off.