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Breaking Down Walls: Next Gen Business Events Redefine Legacy

PCMA’s Convening Leaders, the world leading educational conference for business event strategists, selected the “organised bohemia” of Austin, Texas, for its 2017 edition. The event is renowned for challenging the established best practice of event design and joins other revolutionaries including South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, C2Montreal, TEDex in Longbeach, and Falling Walls in Berlin  – which have all re-shaped the content and community…

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Delegates Like Small, Fast and Interactive Meetings, Research Says

Social responsibility, more technology and better use of time are what delegates want. And four out of five think face to face will remain important. To mark the silver anniversary of Asia-Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo (AIME), the Melbourne Convention Bureau commissioned McCrindle Research to conduct a study on future meetings trends. From Association Meetings International…

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White House Pushes Back New Travel Order

So where to next for President Donald Trump’s infamous Executive Order 13769, which bans refugees and citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries from entering the US? Some thoughts on how the White House will next week be attempting to circumvent the travel ban’s current legal limbo. From ASAE (American Society  of Association Executives)…

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More Meetings Industry Response to Trump’s Executive Order

Even as three federal appeals court judges refuse to reinstate Executive Order 13769 – and the matter surely heads towards the US Supreme Court – here is an association community perspective on how President Trump’s travel ban could affect the business of meetings. Includes reaction from some of The Iceberg‘s partners. From ASAE (American Society  of Association Executives)…

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Meetings Industry Responds to Trump’s Controversial Travel Ban

How is the global meetings industry reacting to President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending for 90 days entry to the US of foreign nationals from seven mainly Muslim countries and halting for 120 days the entire US refugee programme? Including comment from Meetings Professional International (MPI) / Meetings Mean Business, Destination DC, Kenes Group, EventMobi.com and ICCA. From Association Meetings International…

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Global Exhibition Barometer 18th Edition (February 2017)

This study is based on a global survey, concluded in January 2017. It represents up to date information on the development and the outlook of the global exhibition industry as well as on 14 specific countries and zones. Global Exhibition Barometer 18th Edition (February 2017)

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How to Choose the Right PCO

Guidelines to assist an international association in the appointment of a Professional Congress Organiser (PCO) for their meeting. How to Choose the Right PCO

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MPI Thought Leadership: Strategic Meetings Management

MPI Foundation’s investment in Strategic Meetings Management accelerates the development of breakthrough approaches to enterprise-wide meeting and event management. Using effective meeting management principles, industry professionals can leverage meeting and event portfolios to drive business performance, design effective and efficient meetings and events, and measure strategic business outcomes to track goal achievement and more effectively…

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Meeting Design Study and Tools

Increasingly meeting professionals are responsible for providing high quality meetings and events that deliver maximum value for minimum costs. As a result the meeting and event industry is undergoing a paradigm shift in how it defines, plans and executes meetings and events. Meeting Design represents a framework and bridge between the state of meetings today…

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Hybrid Meetings Toolkit

Hybrid meetings and events are creating opportunities for meeting professionals. It’s easy to get started with these tools. Hybrid Meetings Toolkit

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MPI Thought Leadership: Future of Meetings

Research that focuses on emerging issues, cutting-edge information and trends in meeting distribution channels. Industries thrive when their members have the most current business tools and intelligence at their disposal. The Future of Meetings initiative focuses on emerging issues facing our industry, cutting-edge information impacting our community and trends in meeting technology, meeting design, social media for…

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MPI Thought Leadership: Corporate Social Responsibility

Meetings and events will be affected by new standards for sustainable and socially responsible programs. Every corporate decision impacts people, planet and profits, the so called “triple bottom line”. As organizations increasingly make CSR a business imperative, meetings and events are being affected by more and more demand for sustainable practices and “greening”. There are…

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Meetings Outlook

A quarterly report offering a unique look through the eyes of your peers into the future of the meetings and events industry. Meetings Outlook

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UFI Insights on Logistics

UFI has consolidated the results of three of its recent focus meetings and combined this with the presentations of entrants in UFI award competitions to create a series of UFI Insight documents. The aim of these reports is to provide UFI members with “insight” into challenges currently facing the exhibition industry in the areas of…

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