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Bespoke Food Symposium Tackles Tough Issues in Food

Connect Your Meetings

In the meetings industry, many conversations about food and beverage center around food allergies , healthifying menus and working with your venue’s catering team to develop a delicious meal while staying on budget. But if you think of the food industry as an onion, we’re only peeling off the very first layer.

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How Austria’s Innovative ‘Fifteen Seconds Festival’ Challenges the Status Quo

PCMA Convene

“What we do,” Thiemo Gillissen, the event’s co-founder and partner, told Convene, “is a business conference done differently.”. First impressions can be everything, hence the name of the event, which is held every year in Graz, Austria. 100+ SPEAKERS. “We This year will see the introduction of several initiatives.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine. Compared to most fields, Shure wrote, even in 2003, “the profession is still in its infancy.”. “We

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