May 2015
Cover Story/CMP Series
The Complete Guide to Noise at Meetings
Leading AV providers, audiologists, and meeting organizers offer best practices for fine-tuning the sound mix at your meetings and events.
Cover illustration by Studio Castelao
Features
2015 Epanel Survey: All About You
When we checked in with meeting professionals — planners and their supplier partners — at the end of 2014 to see what's new in how they are planning and executing successful events, a record 808 respondents responded. (Read in our facsimilie edition.)
Deep Thoughts With John Medina
The author on why the classroom is a terrible learning environment, how open-space design only gets it half-right, and what presenters need to do every nine minutes and 59 seconds.
The New DMO
The DMO model is changing. As DMAI’s DestinationNEXT initiative shows, destination marketing now means approaching meetings and conventions as a way to drive economic development for the entire city — and engaging planners and attendees with unique experiences.
Departments
How to Track the Mood of Your Meeting
A new biometric wristband could allow you to read the mood of your attendees — and adjust your program accordingly.
Supported Article Innovative Meetings
Reinventing the Conference Panel
A new ‘Idea Generator’ format at ACPA — College Student Educators International’s annual meeting put attendees onstage with the experts.
4 Ways to Attract Mid-Career Attendees
Attracting the next generation of participants is an urgent priority for most professional conference organizers.
Plenary
COCAL Goes to Brazil
As one of the world’s blazing-hot emerging destinations, Brazil was the perfect location for the annual meeting of one of the meetings industry’s up-and-coming organizations: COCAL (Federación de Entidades Organizadoras de Congresos y Afines de América Latina).
College Art Association (CAA) 103rd Annual Conference
The CAA conference drew more than 4,500 curators, professors, instructors, and students of art history to New York City.
Jeremy M. Luski
Vice President, Event Operations and Registration Services, Breakbulk Events & Media (a division of ITE Group plc), New York City
Indy Welcomes All
Earlier this year, Indiana became a focal point for perceived discrimination against LGBT people.
US Travel on the Future of Meetings
It’s been six years since President Obama’s warning about the cost of meetings and events put on by companies receiving federal bailout money coincided with an economic recession that had already dealt the meetings industry a heavy blow. What's happening now?
Also In This Issue
Getting an Earful
Whenever the consumer or business media covers the meetings industry, I’m sure you sit up and take notice. Me too.