After being holed up inside for months, away from co-workers and others, many planners are championing outdoor meetings.

The long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical and pharma meetings remains to be seen.

While in-person events are not yet booming, there is forward progress.

Attendees Don’t Have To Fly When They Can Get Behind The Wheel

Technological advancements within the meetings and events sector are in a constant state of flux…

Over the past decade, the planning and execution of corporate meetings have been transformed into something more sophisticated than what had preceded for a half-century. But throughout that remarkable metamorphosis, one element has remained virtually unchanged — the meeting room.

Planners are gradually adopting a growing variety of event technologies, but are a long way from reaping the full benefits. As a result, experts say, they are missing out on ways to increase planning efficiency and improve the attendee experience.

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.

Meeting budgets are increasing, but so, too, are the challenges.