Thanks to Kimberly-Clark I think I may have set a record in sanitizing my hands at the 2018 BOMA International conference. As I walked around the BOMA tradeshow floor in San Antonio to check out some of the latest trends, tools and amenities in the building industry—I was on assignment for Buildings, a sister publication of Meetings Today—I was, not surprisingly, shaking a lot of hands.

Meetings Today's Christoph Trappe relays his takeaways from former PCMA CEO Deborah Sexton's fam trip presentation in Puerto Rico.

Meetings Today's Christoph Trappe deliberates why there isn't more free time built into meeting agendas.

Meetings Today's Christoph Trappe travels to Puerto Rico to assess the meetings situation on the ground.

Influencer marketing is a bit of a buzzword right now. With good reason. It can help planners expand their meeting or events’ promotional effort and overall reach over social media and other channels.

I’m currently attending the Adobe Summit as a guest of Adobe’s and just checked in. The check-in was super quick on a laptop. Once I remembered what email I used to register, the screen warned me that a lost badge would cost $150 to replace. I groaned at the sight of the fee and the attendant added: “That’s nothing. The other day I was working a convention where they charged the full conference amount—$2,300.”