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Thursday June 05, 2025
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Miguel Neves
Miguel Neves
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Announcement

Skift Meetings Forum Returns to NYC With a Sharper Lens on Event Strategy

This is where real event strategy happens. Skift Meetings Forum returns this September, built for senior planners navigating higher expectations, tighter budgets, and an industry that refuses to stand still.

Industry News

Canceled, Moving to Canada: Science Conferences Shun the U.S.

As scientific groups cancel or relocate their conferences, the U.S. is losing ground as a host for academic exchange, along with the economic impact that comes with it.

- Andrea Doyle
Incentive Travel

How AI, Gen Z, and Geopolitics Are Reshaping Incentive Travel

The Incentive Research Foundation's annual gathering spotlighted industry-defining trends, emphasizing that research is crucial as incentive travel faces major shifts ahead.

- Barbara Scofidio
Destinations

San Antonio's New Tourism Chief Faces Early Test Amid High-Stakes Conference Setback

As San Antonio welcomes its new tourism chief and prepares to showcase the city to 3,000 event professionals, the sudden postponement of a major cybersecurity conference signals broader industry challenges.

- Andrea Doyle
Technology

Event Tech News Roundup: April–May 2025

The event tech landscape continues its AI acceleration, with several major platforms — as well as destinations and companies outside the event tech sector — rolling out AI-powered features. Meanwhile, strategic acquisitions signal ongoing industry consolidation.

- Miguel Neves
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This is where the industry's most forward-thinking planners come to exchange ideas, uncover insights, and reimagine what events can do.

Join senior planners from top brands, associations, and agencies — the people driving change, solving hard problems, and setting the pace for what's next.

In one powerful day, you'll gain strategic takeaways, peer-tested frameworks, and new ways to prove impact.

"We understand there are variables beyond our control, but are hopeful that economic and geopolitical uncertainty is short-lived so economies, ours and everyone's, can continue to thrive through the engine that is meetings and conventions."

- Mario J. Bass, President and CEO at Visit San Antonio in San Antonio's New Tourism Chief Faces Early Test Amid High-Stakes Conference Setback

Industry Calendar | June 2025

• Cvent CONNECT in San Antonio, TX | June 9–12

• FIEXPO Latin America in Costa Rica | June 9–12

• MPI WEC in St. Louis, MO | June 18–20

Full Calendar of 2025 Industry Events
  Skift IDEA Awards  
   

Final deadline is June 13.

This year's Skift IDEA Awards will celebrate the Meetings & Events Industry across four categories?

Submit your entry for the most coveted travel industry award.

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