As medical and pharmaceutical meetings strive for a “new normal,” planners must figure out what has changed, how meetings are evolving, where they’re meeting and what they see coming in the future.

The deserving winners of the 2022 Distinctive Achievement Awards have met or exceeded the high standards that association meeting planners demand today.

For meeting and event professionals in the association industry, stress is an expected outcome of the role.

Corporate social responsibility, or CSR, is on the “to-do list” of many associations as part of their meetings and events strategy.

Now that it is clear remote and hybrid work is here to stay, we must ask ourselves how employers can best battle the issue of engagement in virtual meetings

For any meeting, conference or event held today, it’s critical that planners consider everyone who may be in attendance, and that requires being ADA compliant so all attendees can have a positive experience.

These leaders are no strangers to adversity, and many of them relied on their experience to get through the toughest of times during the COVID-19 pandemic

While banquet-style soirees with featured speakers and networking social hours are a traditional approach that is well-received, more of today’s events are teeming with technological advancements and interactive opportunities that are simply awe-inspiring.

As the world has become ever more divisive, the need for organizations to make DEI an integral part of their core mission and culture has become ever more critical.

As the meetings and events industry continues its recovery from the economic slump of the last two years, CVBs around the country have shown not only resilience in the face of adversity, but actually CVBs have determinedly led the way in overall recovery efforts.