Now innovation and collaboration are the coins of the realm in St. Louis.

The Delmar Loop is about to enter another chapter with the opening of the 2.2-mile electric Loop Trolley in fall 2017.

St. Louis, aka the Gateway City, holds a remarkable place in the history of the U.S.

Having to change one’s career is always an exercise in stress, but for Jackie Wright, becoming a meeting planner was a study in the power of networking and leveraging the unexpected. Now a meetings coordinator for Washington, D.C.’s American Society of Hematology (ASH), Wright found herself looking for a new employment opportunity after being laid off following a reorganization at the accounting firm where she worked as a relationship manager, liaising between different groups in the company.

Executive Chef Adam Crisafulli is part of a Premier Catering culinary team that is transforming the SMG-managed convention center’s culinary experience by challenging the traditional convention center mass-consumption model.

Like its corporate parent, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square is all in when it comes to giving back.

In yet another somewhat circuitous career path that found its way winding through the meetings industry, meet KiKi L’Italien, who turned her training in journalism into a job in the marketing department of a small Joplin, Mo.-based association, then on to a larger, Washington, D.C.-based association, and now a thought-leader in the world of SEO and social media in the association segment and beyond.

One may not associate “old money” with Silicon Valley, but Saratoga, Calif., has quite the tale to tell in that regard.

The main event at the MPI Northern California chapter’s annual ACE event featured a difficult topic.

Washington, D.C., is logging into the technology sector with a push to draw more tech meetings to the nation’s capital.