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19 Trends to Watch in 2019

Connect Your Meetings

The International Congress and Convention Association, which has been tracking meetings for 55 years, says fewer attendees are coming to association meetings. Events including 50 to 249 participants comprise more than 60 percent of association meetings. They make up to 14.4 percent of events, ICCA says.

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Highlights from IMEX America 2016

SmartMeetings

Innovation on the floor took the form of tours enabling planners to gain the advice of experts on how to use how tech , innovation and trends to create compelling experiences. They demonstrated how tech, innovation and trends can be implemented into general sessions, as well as examining the future of meeting experiences.

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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 Informal, Yet Aggressive.

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