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Denzil Rankine: ‘We Have an Extraordinary Journey in This Industry’

PCMA Convene

What would you say is the biggest challenge for a traditional association meeting planner? But if you look at motor companies, automotive makers, some years ago, a number of them decided that all they were really going to do was design and market a car. The difficulty is that the served markets are changing.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. and those that travel to international markets. Contracting space — Total exhibition space shrank 20 percent compared to the average exposition footprint in last year’s survey. MORE THAN A DECADE OF DATA.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As Heart Attack on a Plate.

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