“Culture fit” is not an unheard-of concept in hiring — when either hiring employees or vendors for an event, but it’s especially important when expanding a meeting planner’s DEI ambitions.

It is vital that meeting planners thoroughly evaluate and select the ideal entertainment options to keep attendees engaged.

ASAE’s 2022 annual meeting and exposition exceeded all expectations for the organization’s first in-person event since 2019.

Now that it is clear remote and hybrid work is here to stay, we must ask ourselves how employers can best battle the issue of engagement in virtual meetings

Regular attendees are the “bread and butter” of any convention. Their consistent participation keeps attendance numbers where they need to be each year. But each one of these familiar faces was once a new face — a first-time attendee.

Associations help attendees feel more physically and mentally fit by adding dedicated health and wellness programming to their agendas

For the time being, conventions have gone virtual, and many association planners have had to “up their game” in designing and facilitating these events…

Quite simply, media attention is a means of sharing an association’s story over time and generating credibility…

Many are the roads that lead to increased engagement at meetings. But the specifics of an engagement strategy should be informed by knowledge of the association membership, as opposed to fads in engagement techniques.

Planners continue to face critical challenges, ranging from meeting design and risk management to travel bans, technology and more.