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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

Our attendees, partners, journalists, and speakers,” he said, “tell us that this fundamental thinking is what makes the two days in Graz so special.”. Graz has proven to be a great host city for every edition so far as a historical center, Europe’s culture capital of 2003, a [UNESCO] World Cultural Heritage [Site], and City of Design.

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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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