Here are a few ways meeting planners can break through the bullet points and percentages that LinkedIn’s AI looks for, and ...

Over the course of her 14-year career in the industry, Liza Lampi has planned and executed events and conferences in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States. Lampi works at ...

Meeting planner veteran Laura Gieseking has the unique opportunity of helping organize a major event that will attract industry members to the Twin Cities from around the world. Gieseking, who ...

Emma, the new AI Event Planner from Events in Minutes, delivers a shortlist of top vendors after one quick call—saving hosts hours of research and hassle. https ...

Using your organization and event planning skills will enable you to start a corporate-meeting planner service. Long gone are the days of boring boardroom meetings for middle managers, executives, ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Preferred Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest independent hotel brand, is pleased to announce the relaunch of its Meeting Planner website, designed to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Sands covers travel and the hospitality industry. Conventions and meetings are big business for the hospitality industry.

The event-planning industry has so far been immune to automation. It relies on human interaction and conference calls—things that cannot be easily outsourced to a machine. The profession is expected ...

I recently had the privilege to be involved in a meeting planner’s conference with a mix of agencies and in-house corporate planners to discuss the business of getting back to in-person meetings. Part ...

Visit Indy and city officials are preparing to host Meeting Professionals International, an influential group that books more than 10,000 meetings and events annually for large companies. They’ll roll ...

Tight budgets, competition, needy clients, last-minute requests, and unresponsive venues rise to the top of the list of challenges planners need to tackle in 2019. They anticipate tougher times next ...