There's a scene that likely is familiar to many meeting planners — convention center spaces temporarily turned into staging areas where meeting attendees volunteer for an hour or an afternoon to pack donated supplies to be delivered to those in need.
A Jewish comic named Judy Carter and a Muslim policy consultant named Dalia Mogahed met at one conference and collaborated at another.
Are you surprised to learn that two immensely creative and influential musicians, Lou Reed, who died last week, and his wife, Laurie Anderson, spent their first date in 1992 at a conference, the Audio Engineering Society Convention?
More than 70 academics and scientists from 15 countries gathered at the Oro Domus La Quercia hotel in Viterbo, Italy, on Aug. 8-11 to discuss the latest research findings surrounding parapsychological topics
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) will hold their joint annual meeting for the 115th time at the Hyatt Regency Chicago on Jan. 2-5.
“We're often held back from taking action because the next step is complex or unclear,” futurethink CEO Lisa Bodell writes.
Innovation doesn't begin with great ideas, says Lisa Bodell, futurethink CEO, author of Kill the Company, and Opening General Session speaker at Convening Leaders 2014. It begins with getting rid of ‘what is not working.’
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A new social-video app allows thousands of people at the same event to combine their creative forces and produce one cohesive, seamlessly edited film.
Prom is a time-honored phenomenon, and this meeting is always prepared for the big dance.
From a career in hotel and CVB sales, she was tapped to serve as head of the local secretariat for the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. — an experience that led directly to her new job as chief external affairs officer for Whitman-Walker Health, a community health provider in the nation's capital.
