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Online Events Grow in Wake of Coronavirus

PCMA Convene

The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. As efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus by restricting travel ripple across the globe, a growing number of event organizers are opting to move meetings online as an alternative to canceling them.

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We’re Not Going It Alone

PCMA Convene

In collaboration with the Joint Meetings Industry Council, PCMA is funding a study on the professional, business, academic, and economic outcomes of business events and how they can best be communicated to affected communities and governments, a project that is being managed by the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

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How to Design a Conference Room for a Better Event Experience

Boomset

This is particularly harmful to micro-events and office meetings, that an average office worker attends more than 60 each month. Nonetheless, hosting a closed-door meeting is a simple matter that doesn’t require a conference room. On the other hand, make a place too ornate and flashy and you’ll distract everyone from the topic at hand.