This year’s IMEX America was built for belonging. Here’s where the industry’s emerging professionals found their home at the biggest industry tradeshow of the year. 

Understanding Gen Z’s values in the workplace is one key factor in hiring young professionals, but to know how to attract Gen Z applicants to your company or business, a second factor equally as important is the generation’s job search habits—and the challenges they face throughout the process.

Tackle the IMEX America tradeshow floor as a first-time attendee with these tips and tricks from a buyer, an exhibitor and the IMEX team. 

What does Gen Z want in the workplace? What do they look for in a job? Thanks to studies and survey data, the hiring world has a better idea of which workplace values rank toward the top of Gen Z’s job-search checklist. 

As emerging industry professionals, our biggest task is to learn from those willing to share their industry knowledge with us. That means taking advantage of every educational opportunity that knocks, like these student membership opportunities within meetings and events industry organizations and associations. 

As we move through 2023 with the mindset of making meetings and events industry trends a long-term reality, Alicia Jenelle, a multi-hyphenate professional and international experiential design expert from Toronto, shares how to push the DEIB conversation one step forward.

The desire to close the gap between future and veteran meetings industry professionals exists on both sides. Here’s what it will take to finally close it. 

Here are a few ways you can turn to social media to actively seek out, invite and engage Gen Z in your time online.

A glimpse into the mind and values of the Gen Z meeting attendee and how to plan for and welcome them

Meetings Today’s Taylor Smith navigates the meetings and events industry’s next generation through “The Z: Planning for the Industry's Next Generation."