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Peer-to-peer learning isn't solely reserved for Millennials. See how one tech company is using mobile matchmaking to facilitate powerful exchanges among like-minded attendees.

Managing mountains of paper as part of your meeting planner job is a thing of the past. So why, then, are so many planners still doing it?

For many meeting planners, there’s not enough guidance on planning for diversity, or how to make the content and the rest of their programming elements more appealing to a diverse array of attendees.

Recent studies have shown that approximately 65 percent of people are visual learners. There are lots of underutilized opportunities to engage attendees visually in between sessions, lunches and receptions, says Cynthia Hornketh, CMM, Experient’s VP, experience design.

Millennials are regarded as a tricky audience—difficult to engage and challenging to keep entertained. So how do you keep them engaged, entertained and participating at an event in a meaningful way? Dan Yaman of Live Spark offers a few ideas.

As a meeting planner and the Senior Director of Global Accounts at HelmsBriscoe, Jill Stone shares tips on making the "flip" happen at your meetings.

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.

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.

Community services activities at meetings are more popular now than ever. But not every meeting can accommodate a full-blown community service activity—there may just not be enough time in the program or the logistics may seem too daunting. Ira Alemas of impact4good shares some of his top CSR activity options for giving back under a time crunch.

Technology has transformed the events landscape to such an extent that most events are already hybrid, and soon all events will be as they turn into truly multi-sensory experience. 3D tech expert Martina Ori offers tips on what planners can do to make the most of this new frontier.

In this Shakedown, we asked Adrian Segar, founder of Conferences That Work, about his new book as well as the evolution of knowledge itself as both relate to improving meeting outcomes.

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 Millennial event mastermind Liz King, of Liz King Events, what's on the horizon—from tech trends to 'is this tech really necessary?'

In this shakedown, Doug Chorpenning of the wet paint group draws on everything from intentional design to Dr. Seuss to indirectly define his company's creative ecosystem and how planners can use it to their advantage.