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Question: What do you get when planners gather to tackle their biggest challenges?
Answer: Insights that cut through the noise—and maybe a few unfiltered frustrations.
At the Skift Meetings Innovation Lab at IMEX America 2024, an event sponsored by the Budapest Convention Bureau, planners from around the world brought their struggles into the spotlight. From managing soaring AV costs and tight timelines to keeping event marketing relevant and data-driven, these discussions didn't pull any punches.
Some issues, like high AV fees and budget constraints, saw planners strategizing ways to avoid sticker shock. Meanwhile, others explored how AI might ease workloads—though there's a catch if it also raises expectations for 24/7 availability.
As planners grapple with questions of diversity, wellness, and career advancement, it's clear these challenges aren't going away quickly.
Are you curious how others in your field are navigating these same challenges? Read the full lab report here.
Business events injected an estimated $216 million into Sydney in the last year. With business events flourishing, the CEO of Business Events Sydney saw this as the opportune time to step down.
A recent Cvent webinar revealed top trends for meetings, including choosing booking patterns that allow attendees to extend over a weekend and warm-weather destinations so they can be outdoors.
With the transformation of events into experiences, planners say that independent hotels offer distinct advantages, such as flexibility, creativity and authenticity.
What began as a way to think about making meetings and events more eco-friendly has evolved into implementing steps to create an ecosystem for meetings, events, and conferences — as well as their host destination — to thrive.
In this report, we examine the importance of building a sustainable ecosystem for events from the perspectives of planners, attendees, and the host destination.
Fifteen minutes on a Thursday. That's all it took for Rebecca Carmody's life to change when she was laid off from her event marketing job. One year later, she's still looking for her next gig.
If your post-event surveys always result in generic responses, the first place to start is with the questions. Why not ask attendees how the event really made them feel?
As much as our industry has become consumed with promoting wellness at events, are meetings actually integrating these practices? Kelly Bishop, founder of Wellevate Experiences, joins Skift Meetings editors to explore the gap between event wellness ideals and real-world applications.
The healthcare sector is a lucrative one and global event company Hyve is getting in on the action by acquiring HLTH, a global event company for health innovators.
