Discover Baton Rouge for Meetings and Events

Baton Rouge is calling you to experience everyday richness in a city where culture lives around every corner. When you host your meeting in Louisiana

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The Estuary 2025

From Surplus to Solution: How Events Are Rethinking Food Waste

At the close of a successful event, the signs are familiar: half-full serving trays cleared from buffets, boxed meals left behind, untouched platters

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Destinations International’s Destination Guide to Food Recovery and Redistribution at Events cover page

Expert Tips on Transitioning From Live to Virtual Events

Thinking about launching virtual meetings as a standalone event option or augmentation to a live event?Amanda Ma, founder and CEO of Innovate

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Expert Tips on Transitioning From Live to Virtual Events

Thinking about launching virtual meetings as a standalone event option or augmentation to a live event?Amanda Ma, founder and CEO of Innovate

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San Francisco Bay Area Meeting and Event Destinations Are Booming

San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and the San Francisco Peninsula are getting their meetings groove back, with innovative new strategies and always-

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This Magician and Comedian Is Now a Virtual Events Sensation

Did you know it was possible to get a standing ovation via Zoom?I didn’t, until I saw Harrison Greenbaum perform a virtual comedy show and do

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Meetings Today LIVE! Planner Event Captures Milwaukee in the Moment

The first Meetings Today LIVE! event of 2026 kicked off May 3 in Milwaukee, with 40 planners and 40 suppliers gathered for a three-day Midwest

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Meetings Today LIVE! National attendees in Milwaukee

Inside New Orleans’ ‘Built to Host’ Strategy During Sail250 and North America’s 50 Best Restaurants

Naturally, a city that’s "Built to Host" would have two international events and multiple fams ongoing simultaneously, executed without a hitch.I

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Tall Ships

How Live Event Entertainers Are Going Virtual

The past seven weeks have changed our industry. The future of events will change. The future of meetings will change.  We aren

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How to Use AI to Make a Client Video Presentation From a Meetings Fam Trip

It was during a recent fam trip to Asheville,

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A two-photo collage of meeting professional Tya Bolton.

Cvent and Encore Partner to Help Make Virtual and Hybrid Event Planning Process Easier

Although the return of in-person meetings is ramping up, that doesn’t mean hybrid and virtual events are being left in the dust—if this announcement

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How to Build Authentic Connection and Networking at Events

In an age of constant online connectivity, digital overload and nonstop virtual communication, many people attend events for one primary reason: To

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Photo of a person shaking another person's hand during a networking event.

How to Select a Speaker for a Virtual Meeting

“Pivot to virtual” has been the phrase most often used by groups considering a move of their meetings from physical (also called “face to face,” “f2f

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On Demand Webinar: Virtual Event Sponsorships + Monetization

Presented by Lauren Allison & Rachel Marion    

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How to Add Mind-Blowing Holopresence Tech to Your Virtual Events

Engaging. Captivating. Creative. These are the requests I get daily from our clients. Why? Because they need to step up their meetings and make

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TLC Creative Technology’s holopresence technology

See How Top In-Person Event Entertainers Pivoted to Virtual in 2020

When sitting down to write my May 1, 2020, article for Meetings Today, we were about six weeks into the pandemic in the U.S. I knew that I had to

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Comedic duo The Passing Zone has successfully made the transition to virtual events. Credit: The Passing Zone

Virtually Yours

Diving headfirst into the world of virtual meetings can be quite a challenge, as meeting planners need to familiarize themselves with a whole new

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Best Practices to Accelerate Your Pivot to Virtual Events

Aired May 13, 2020 Presented by McNeel Keenan  CEUS &

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Future Trends in Meetings and Events: Insights from Meetings Today Contributor Scott Steinberg

Futurist speaker and frequent Meetings Today contributor Scott Steinberg

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Author Scott Steinberg and the cover of his new book, 'The Shape of the Future.'

10 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Virtual Speakers

This year brings with it the promise of a return to in-person events. But even so, many organizations will continue to produce virtual or hybrid

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