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.

There are key steps that meeting planners can take to make SMERF meetings during this time of uncertainty successful.

At MPI WEC 2021, Publisher Harvey Grotsky spoke with Michael Massari about the status of Caesars Entertainment and the industry in the wake of the pandemic.

Beyond the basics of water and energy savings, and “reduction and reuse” of materials, sustainability has grown to include social considerations and “thriving economic practices,” among four core components outlined by the Events Industry Council in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

With virtual/hybrid meetings and events frequently the only option now, it’s crucial for planners to know how to facilitate team building with participants scattered across the country or even the globe.

The deeper the engagement via data gathering, the better planners have to not only personalize the next experience, but this data also gives meeting planners the information they need to enhance future events.