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Sustainable Development Goals Popping Up in Meeting Agendas, More

PCMA Convene

“Data Science for the SDGs” was the theme of the 2019 Data for Good Exchange hosted by Bloomberg in New York City, which looked at how data science projects can help make progress toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Bloomberg). Courtesy Salesforce).

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Flight shaming in the events industry

Gallus Events

In December 2019 I travelled to Madrid to attend the Sustainable Innovation Summit, an official side event at the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference. A throw-away trend or something that will shape our events, how should we view flight shaming in the events industry? degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

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More Associations Are Sounding the Climate Alarm

PCMA Convene

Case in point: In 2019, the U.K.-based Several years ago, Jeremy Smith, a sustainable tourism writer, speaker, and consultant, saw an opportunity to help the travel industry recognize the role it could play in addressing the issue. “We degrees of warming,” Smith said.

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20 Important Tips to Maximize Millennial Engagement at Your Events

EventBank Insights

This mindset translates onto the Millennial or Generation Y demographic: the generation that already comprises the largest segment in the workplace and is expected to make up 75% of the workforce by 2030 in the US alone. Keep Sustainability in Mind.

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Women Deliver Conference Tries ‘to Shake Up Power Dynamics’

PCMA Convene

A leader makes a dramatic entrance in front of a wide-eyed audience; an impassioned motivational speaker waxes poetic about empowering oneself. According to the 2019 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Gender Index, there isn’t a single country on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. as the official theme.

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What Meeting Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020

PCMA Convene

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? Consider the fact that the global events industry was officially added, as of last fall, as a partner in the United Nations’ drive to reach SDGs by 2030. Why I Have My Eye on AI. But that is changing fast.

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What Meeting Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020

PCMA Convene

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? Consider the fact that the global events industry was officially added, as of last fall, as a partner in the United Nations’ drive to reach SDGs by 2030. Why I Have My Eye on AI. But that is changing fast.

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