Everything required to put on a conference including destination selection, food and beverage, speakers, audio visual technology and space requirements for meetings and discussions.
10 Years After: More Networking 03/22/2010
Don't worry. More than 1,100 of your colleagues around the world remain convinced the tradeshow-convention-meeting business still will be around in 10 years, although it might look just a bit different than it does now. That's the initial conclusion of the Convention 2020 survey conducted by Fast Future Research on behalf of several business travel-related organizations. More
Lightfair Conference Goes Bright 02/08/2010 Lightfair Intl., the annual architectural and commercial lighting tradeshow on tap May 10-14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, has added even more to its already substantial conference program. The LFI conference program will offer seven educational tracks, with 68 unique courses, totaling more than 200 accredited hours.
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Pederson to Be Honored at TSW Fastest 50 10/05/2009
Margaret Pederson, president of Amirexx and a veteran tradeshow organizer, will be honored for her tremendous contribution to the tradeshow industry during the Tradeshow Week Fastest 50 event Nov. 13-15 in Houston. Pederson, currently chairwoman of the Intl. Assn. of Exhibitions and Events, has a long history of involvement in the industry.
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Conference Content: Meeting Expectations By Stephanie Corbin - 08/03/2009
For years, educational content has been the driving force behind industry association meetings. It provides additional training, exposure to new ideas and concepts and professional accreditation. But education sessions often were overlooked when people in the industry talked about the meetings, often focusing on the parties and networking events that surround the education.
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Meetings Industry Sees Tough Times Ahead By Rachel Wimberly - 07/06/2009
There are few sectors of the economy that haven't been impacted by the global recession, but the meetings industry has been hit particularly hard, grappling with not only inevitable drops in attendance and cancellations, but also falling hotel rates, clients' reduced budgets and nagging perception issues.
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Crisis Management: Justifying Face-to-face By Joalien Johnson - 07/06/2009
Changing the outside perception of the value of face-to-face meetings has not been an easy feat for industry organizations in recent months, given the onslaught of negative publicity by the media, but, slowly and surely, with a coalition at work to address the negativity, progress is being made.
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Small Meetings Get Helping Hands 05/04/2009
Life just got a little easier for meeting planners in charge of smaller events, with two companies, MeetingMetrics and American Express Business Travel, developing programs specifically geared toward them.
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Gordon Hughes II: Riding Out the Storm Rachel Wimberly - 05/04/2009
The days when print ads were a reliable, growing source of revenue for magazines had ended, and the shift online was as fast and furious as publishers could take, forcing many business-to-business media companies to play catch-up. Most still are playing catch-up.As the head of American Business Media, an organization that represents B-to-B media companies, Gordon T. Hughes II has had to help his members adjust to the ever-changing environment.
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Behind The Story Michael Hart, Editor-in-Chief, Tradeshow Week March 16, 2010 Arms Around Chicago
Thank goodness the editors and writers at Tradeshow Week are not forced to write abou... More
Behind The Story Michael Hart, Editor-in-Chief, Tradeshow Week March 5, 2010 UBM’s $1 Investment
Elsewhere on our Web site you can see the news that United Business Media will repris... More
OFF THE SHOWFLOOR Stephanie Corbin, Senior Assistant Editor, Tradeshow Week February 26, 2010 The Other Side of the Pen
Back in December, I gave an interview to The Los Angeles Times. Tiffany Hsu, one of t... More
Off the Showfloor Stephanie Corbin, Senior Assistant Editor, Tradeshow Week February 9, 2010 A Badge of Honor
Last week, I visited my home state, Ohio, for a few days on invitation to attend the ... More
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