SOURCE: Trade Show News Network
The Boring Company completed the excavation for the Las Vegas Convention Center's new underground transportation system, which will run electric vehicles across the entire length of the two mile facility.
|
SOURCE: Inc.com
"For the first time in modern history, three of our major social institutions — work, school, and family life — are all happening in one physical place: our homes," writes Sandra Feder, and thanks to the reduced interaction between employees, women and minorities are more likely to feel left out of important conversations.
|
SOURCE: Event Industry News
The Meetings Industry Association, the United Kingdom's primary standards group for the event industry, has implemented a new accreditation — called AIM Secure — to note which venues have taken steps to make themselves more hygenic, and so far, 50 of venues across the UK have met these newest standards.
|
SOURCE: Harvard Business Review
With so many employees in the United States and the world uprooted from their traditional work environments, it is vital for them to keep tabs on their mental health. Now more than ever, workers need to find a balance between their professional and personal lives, or the pandemic will add a sea of issues related to mental health.
|
SOURCE: MeetingsNet
A survey conducted during a webinar hosted by Global DMC Partners with more than 700 meeting planners in attendance found that they are still expecting in-person events to occur in late 2020 and early 2021, even as other polls show conference-goers are still not comfortable attending live events at the current stage of the pandemic.
|
SOURCE: Forbes
As companies think about how they are able to survive the COVID-19, they may need to shift the direction and scale of their business to adjust to the new reality.
|
SOURCE: Trade Show News Network
To continue holding their meetings and events in the face of the pandemic, many trade groups moved these gatherings online. Even when a sense of normalcy returns, the accelerated prominence of the virtual event industry caused by COVID-19 will be irreversible.
|
SOURCE: CMO.com
When crisis strikes, employees look to their leaders to lead them through rocky waters. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, former Google HR Chief Peter High gave his advice for navigating the storm.
|
SOURCE: Associations Now
Phoenix, Arizona, refused to let its event industry falter as organizations moved their meetings online. Now, as venues start to reopen, the city has seen an increase in hybrid events being planned.
|
SOURCE: CEIR Blog
Robyn Davis of Exhibitors WINH LLC shares her top takeaways from CEIR’s Head of Marketing Insight series.
|
|
| |
|
