Often, the right keynote speaker is a woman, not necessarily because of her gender but because of her unique history, expertise and message.

The right theme can move employees to innovate, ideate, change direction, energize, create, collaborate and tackle the challenges.

Creating a theme for a corporate event is serious business. The right theme ties a meeting together and helps focus attendees on their organization’s core objective for the meeting and often the coming year.

Meetings must leave a lasting, positive impression on attendees, and that is best achieved when great content is combined with a hospitality experience that is both high quality and distinctive.

A one-stop-shop of unique venues and exclusive experiences appeals to planners — and a mixed demographic.

Following this year’s Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress, we asked MPI President and CEO Paul Van Deventer to reflect on a range of industry issues.

Read how a trio of planners and their DMC partners collaborated to pull off stellar events.

Meeting planners, CVBs, live event agencies, DMCs, rental companies and other suppliers must work effectively together to deliver the best possible outcome.

It pays to keep an eye on even the less-traveled pockets of the country where meeting hotel development is surging.

President and CEO Don Welsh tells how DMAI’s rebranding will significantly empower CVBs to excel.