While our June/July issue lets readers tap into the pulse of the Eastern meetings scene, covering destination powerhouses stretching from Maine to Jersey and exploring the SMERF and convention center segments, we’re also offering a glimpse into the future.
What will the meeting of the future look like? In the digital edition of this issue, available by accessing MeetingsFocus.com or via an e-mail we’ll send out in early June, we asked some meetings industry big thinkers for their take on how we’ll be meeting, greeting and learning down the road.
Gazing into the crystal ball are Stan Aaronson, a marketing strategist who is also on the Meetings Media Editorial Advisory Board; demographics expert Maddy Dychtwald, co-founder of Age Wave and author of Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better; meetings management consultant Daphne Meyers, of the Red Barn Group; meetings technology trend-watcher Corbin Ball; and Charles Allen, head of the C.W. Allen Group, whose eyes are always scanning the horizon.
Having conversed with most of these folks over the years, I can tell you one thing they all have in common: Ask them about their vision of the future and they’ll passionately talk your ear off.
So click on over to the digital edition of Meetings East this month to share in their vision.
