As climate change continues to make headlines and companies prioritize sustainability initiatives, reducing an event’s carbon footprint can start with business travel.

PCMA Convening Leaders has posted respectable attendance numbers at its Convening Leaders conference, held January 9-12 at CAESARS FORUM in Las Vegas. The industry event required all in-person attendees to prove their vaccination status.

The goal is to “close all the gaps in the planning process,” according to a press release, and become a solution for events of all sizes—from meetings with less than 100 attendees to conferences with hundreds of thousands.

The evolution of in-person meetings is calling for more meaningful interaction between individual attendees engaged in activities such as teambuilding, as well as more free time. Industry veteran Tom Faust, with Margaritaville Lake Resort, Lake Conroe, Houston, shares his perspectives on the post-pandemic meetings environment.

The meetings and events industry is similar to every other industry when it comes to adapting to a radically shifting work environment stemming from the pandemic. Futurist Scott Steinberg details some of these macro workplace trends that will impact how we interact and our expectations of employers.

IMEX Frankfurt, one of largest annual meetings and events industry exhibitions in the world, announced it will postpone its 2022 event due to the spread of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus.

We’ve all been on a collective, and also individual, journey with deep currents running through our consciousness and determining our future course. Meetings wellness expert Lee Papa taps into that current with her own reflections on everything we’ve been through during two years of pandemic that will shape the future.

MPI postponed its European Meetings and Events Conference (EMEC) in Brighton, U.K., to an unspecified later date in the wake of the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.

A meetings and events industry advocacy group that champions issues affecting people of Asian descent is presenting its second free webinar Thursday, January 6.