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🗻 5 Ways Planners Are Rethinking Incentives

 
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Tuesday July 08, 2025
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Miguel Neves
Miguel Neves
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Insights

Planners Navigate Meeting Budget Blindspots

Event budgets are being squeezed but instead of scaling back, planners are striking sponsorship deals to continue to deliver high-impact experiences.

- Andrea Doyle
Incentive Travel

5 Ways Planners Are Rethinking Incentives

Skift Meetings' upcoming incentive report, which will be released in August, reveals an industry that remains resilient and innovative as it is forced to continuously change and evolve.

- Barbara Scofidio
Technology

Event Tech News Roundup: June 2025

As AI sweeps across the event tech landscape, June's developments show a sector racing to redefine value through smarter tools, deeper data, and strategic consolidation. The real winners? Planners who can keep pace with the change.

- Miguel Neves
Event Management

Why is it So Hard for Planners to Donate Food?

Despite laws that protect food donors and apps that simplify the process, planners keep hitting roadblocks with hotels unwilling or unable to donate food.

- Barbara Scofidio
Industry News

Business Travel Forecasts for the Rest of the Year a Mix of Optimism and Shifting Priorities

Business travel predictions for the third and fourth quarter vary widely, with the travelers sometimes appearing more optimistic than their companies.

- Barbara Scofidio
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Inside you will find: Insider knowledge on 85 event tech tools, 40 event management platforms compared and contrasted, insights on the current event tech landscape, real use cases for AI, and guidance on event tech buying decisions from independent experts.

""Despite budget concerns, we are still seeing more events."

- Simone Seiler, global general manager of FCM Meetings & Events in Planners Navigate Meeting Budget Blindspots

  Skift Meetings Forum  
   

Learn, Connect, and Get Inspired

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Skift Meetings Forum returns on September 15, built for senior planners navigating higher expectations, tighter budgets, and an industry that is constantly evolving.

Join us for a full day of learning and connections and gain strategic takeaways, peer-tested frameworks, and new ways to prove your impact.

Industry Calendar | July 2025

• DI Annual in Chicago, IL | July 9–11

• NACE Experience in Milwaukee, WI | July 27–29

• ASAE Annual in Los Angeles, CA | August 9–12

Calendar of Industry Events
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