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Dan Yaman, CEO of Live Spark, is glad that Millennials have inspired companies to rethink their presentations and to focus on engaging their audiences in brain-friendly, interactive ways. He also laments the fate of the poor, disengaged Gen Xers and Boomers who came before them.

Corbin Ball identifies several trends in meeting tech—from wearables to event intelligence.

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.

If you think one simple step by one event professional doesn’t make a difference: think again. Even everyday decisions can make a big impact, says Nancy J. Zavada of MeetGreen.

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.

How did the data company Tableau grow its user conference from 200 to 8,000 attendees in less than eight years?

Increasing audience interaction is key when planning for Millennials, whose epic appetite for engaging experiences can keep planners up at night.

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.

Event crowdsourcing techniques get attendees involved in the action long before the meeting or event begins.

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?

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.

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?

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.

The FRESH conference 2015 tested out new meeting formats and event technologies. Here's a look at the rising trends they found.