Associations help attendees feel more physically and mentally fit by adding dedicated health and wellness programming to their agendas

We asked four experts how they see sponsorship challenges today, how they think the situation will evolve and what creative strategies they’ve employed to negotiate successful sponsorships in a pandemic.

As long as an event involves valuable electronic data — whether on organizers’ devices or attendees’ — it is a potential target of cybercriminals.

If a meeting planner doesn’t take steps to deal with stress, it eventually can catch up to them and cause serious mental, personal or health problems.

When planners design meetings with families in mind, it’s vital that they think about what’s available in the area for everyone to do.

To stay relevant and attract a talented workforce, you’ve got to know which outdated standards and behaviors no longer belong in today’s workplace.

The COVID-19 pandemic imparted a number of important reminders regarding our interdependence. Undergoing a crisis of a global scale, people everywhere received a firsthand lesson on how their actions and choices were affecting their local community.

While new platforms are undoubtedly flashy, 3-D rendered environments, augmented reality product demonstrations and digital avatars may not address the primary value that people get from attending in-person events — to feel connected to colleagues and industry leaders, and build their network.