PCMA President & CEO Sherrif Karamat emphasized the meetings industry trade association’s annual Convening Leaders event, scheduled for January 9-12 in Las Vegas, will still be held in-person despite the surge in COVID-19 cases in the wake of the Omicron variant.

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic—the last major IMEX exhibition of any type was held in 2019—IMEX America 2021 filled attendees with the warm fuzzies as it lit up the Las Vegas Strip with thousands of stories of industry relationships rekindled.

The new #APIEventProfs group is presenting a foundational one-hour webinar “What You Don’t Know About #StopAsianHate Can Cost You Trillions” September 30 in conjunction with Meetings Today that will demonstrate the economic power of Asians in the U.S. and how to put an end to the recent spate of violence against them.

IMEX America is coming back after a more than two-year pandemic hiatus. IMEX Group CEO Carina Bauer shares her thoughts on changes to the event as well as the current state of the exhibitions industry.

Simultaneous translation software solution Wordly was put into service by MPI to facilitate the online and in-person experience for WEC attendees who preferred or required their content in a language other than English. Here’s how they did it.

he Events Industry Council launched a Sustainable Event Professional Certificate program that is eligible for CMP CEU credits. The certificate provides instruction via 16 course modules regarding topics related to sustainability, social impact and event management.

MPI set to end 2020 with $2.5 million deficit, but confident prior reserves will carry it through pandemic period. Read more.

Meetings industry leaders gathered at MPI WEC 2020 to deliver some inspirational words for colleagues suffering through personal and professional challenges in the pandemic. Read more. 

IMEX Group cancelled its IMEX Frankfurt exhibition, which was scheduled for May 12-14 in Frankfurt, Germany, due to German federal and state government concerns over the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more.