The Professional Convention Management Association, one of the largest member organizations in the business-events industry, announced in mid-March that its annual summer conference, formerly known as PCMA edUcon, is now the PCMA Business Events Summit.
With about 850 attendees, the late-June event—to be held this year at El Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico—is notably smaller than the roughly 4,200-person Convening Leaders conference that PCMA holds each January, which features keynote speakers from outside the industry and a large exhibit hall.
In contrast, the Business Events Summit is a workshop-style event focused on interactive, small-group learning for practical skill building. It will have some sponsored activations but no exhibits.
According to the event’s website, “What’s new this year is who can be in the room: Business Events Summit 2026 is now open exclusively to PCMA members, creating a more focused environment for peer exchange. … [It’s] an immersive, skills-based summit for business-event professionals to sharpen their expertise, solve real-world challenges, and elevate their impact. The Summit has been reimagined as a pinnacle learning environment with longer sessions, hands-on application, and peer-driven problem solving.”
Meghan Risch, chief of staff & vice president, corporate communications for PCMA, elaborated further to Meetings Today: “As part of PCMA’s new brand, edUcon evolved into the Business Events Summit to more clearly reflect what today’s leaders need from education: depth, rigor, and real-world application. We wanted the Summit to reflect the decision-makers, experience designers and influencers in business events, under a name that speaks directly to the work they do.”
The event’s website can be found here: https://businesseventssummit.org/
