Implementing APEX/ASTM Standards at Convening Leaders
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the APEX/ASTM Standards, they are guidelines to produce more environmentally-friendly meetings and conventions. CIC has been working on them for a few months...
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CES and the City
CES is the definition of a city-wide event, a 125,000-attendee giganotosaurus with exhibit space at the Las Vegas Convention Center, The Venetian, the Las Vegas Hilton, and the Renaissance Las Vegas...
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Get Up Already!
Okay, yeah, it starts at 7 a.m. on Monday morning. But if you’re attending 2011 Convening Leaders in Las Vegas, you won’t want to miss the Learning Lounge, located in the MGM Grand Garden Arena. You...
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24-Hour Party People
Kelly Peacy, CAE, CMP, PCMA’s vice president of meetings and events, has written a column, Planner’s Notebook, for Convene over the last few months, where she has given readers an inside look at the...
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Chairman’s Award
Colin Reed, with Kati Quigley, left, and Deborah Sexton. When I attended the Gaylord Opryland Resort’s grand reopening in November, I happened to catch Gaylord Chairman and CEO Colin Reed standing in...
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Serentwipity
A view of the “Tradeshow Trends: New Revenues” session at PMCA Convening Leaders. Yesterday, during day one of PCMA Convening Leaders in Las Vegas, I experienced one of those moments of serendipity...
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Convening Leaders Scorecard
A long, long time ago, during the closing moments of last week, before 2011 Convening Leaders came to encompass everything that was or ever would be, I wrote about five things I was looking forward to...
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Global Platform Could Unite, Expand Virtual Events
The Network. That’s what Tony Lorenz, founder of bXb Online is calling a new global online channel designed to aggregate content that offers live and on-demand content, primarily from face-to-face...
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Preparing for In-Person
They’re best for networking. They’re where the relationships form that make the work work. There’s something about looking a person in the eye (no, not via Google Hangouts) that cannot be duplicated...
View ArticleHow Life-Long Learning Can Help You Get Ahead
I’ve been in this industry longer than I like to admit, during which time I’ve had the privilege to work side by side with some of the most progressive professionals in the conference business. To my...
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How to Put Remote Attendees in the ‘Middle of the Action’
The MashUp Studio broadcasting Convening Leaders LIVE at the Vancouver Convention Centre When Jennifer Kingen Kush, DES, Digital Experience Institute‘s executive director, thinks of the remote audience...
View ArticleFive Ways to Take Ownership of Your Learning
We’re delusional about how we learn, Velvet Chainsaw’s Dave Lutz, CMP, points out in a column about succeeding as a life-long learner. But you can take ownership of your learning at industry events...
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All You Can’t Eat
Usually when you serve attendees a nice seated lunch and post a menu proclaiming what you’re serving, you highlight all the amazing ingredients that have gone into the meal. But for the two...
View ArticleGuiding Principals
It’s a wrap. As I write this, PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 (CL) just successfully concluded in Austin, and our work at Convene is just beginning. In the months to come, we’ll be poring over session...
View ArticleKeeping Convening Leaders Fresh
“Keep Austin Weird” is the quirky slogan for the Live Music Capital of the World—our location for Convening Leaders (CL) 2017 last month. We don’t have a permanent slogan for our annual meeting, but if...
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The Meetings Mean Business Coalition Goes Global
News to Them Meetings Mean Business co-chairs Richard Harper and Paul Van Deventer spoke at a press conference at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017. The Meetings Mean Business Coalition (MMBC) is distinctly...
View ArticleWhat Physicians Will Want out of Your Medical Meeting
The U.S. health-care system is broken, Dr. S. Claiborne “Clay” Johnston, inaugural dean at the University of Texas at Austin’s new Dell Medical School, told the audience at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017...
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