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How Jacob Cohen Donnelly is Building a Love Brand For Media Operators

Leadership Is the Events Industry's Secret

Leaning Into Attraction as An Event Asset

Convene Hospitality Group’s Ryan Simonetti Is Redefining Where the World Meets

The Gathering Economy Is Now an Asset Class

Ted Turner, and the Washington I Came Up In

Seven Bites Before the Met Gala

What's Happening Around the World in May- Inspiration for Event Pros

Meet Mari- The Big New Player in Live Consumer Ticketed Events

Event Industry Leaders You Should Know: Tim Groot, Femi Oke, Andrew Roby and Marco Giberti

Belonging by Design: Andrew Roby and the False Divide Inside the Event Industry

Femi Oke and the Case for the Professional Moderator

Engineering Serendipity

Marco Giberti and the Gathering That Funds

The Seventy-Five Minutes After the Shot

The Eighteen Serious Players in Marquee Consumer

Marquee Consumer 87

Why 94% of Attendees Don't Want Celebrity Keynotes

New Wisdom Bank Profiles: Questex’s Paul Miller, ELX’s Nicola Kastner, and The Imagination Collaborative’s Iain Morrison

The Rise of the Outcome Architect: Nicola Kastner and the Corporate Event Power Shift

Iain Morrison and the Invisible Architecture of Events

Relationships Extend Life. Gathering Forges Relationships. The Events Industry Has Been in the Longevity Business All Along

Why Mike Duignan Built the Centre for Events & Festivals—and his latest gift for event pros

Paul Miller and The Business of Information Flow

The New Era of Events Is Not So New

CULTURE DROP: APRIL 2026 --The Month That Didn’t Go According to Plan

Everyone in Events Thinks They Have ADHD

Does Everyone in Events Thinks They Have ADHD?

When the World Tightens, the Smartest Organizers Listen

Mamie Fish Threw a Dinner for Dogs—And Invented the Modern Activation

Six Interesting People You Should Know in the Event World- March 2026 Edition

The Reunion Instinct

The Quiet Architect of Gatherings

Sam Lippman and the Rooms Where the Exhibition Industry Talks to Itself

Richard Attias Builds Bridges

Liz Irving: Steadiness in the Age of Convergence

James Lancaster and the Rules of Engagement

A Very Important Reminder: We Love SXSW- But Accessibility Shouldn’t Be the Detail That Gets Ignored.

The Robot Conversation the Events Industry Hasn’t Had Yet

The Future of Events: An Arrival Well?

The Exhibition Industry Global Strategist Jochen Witt Opens Up About The Evolution of Exhibition Power

The Gathering Economy Culture Drop for March 2026

February 2026- Five People Shaping the Gathering Economy

When Local Experiential Agencies Match National Intelligence, They Win

From The Show Floor to Space

Michael Barnett and the Architecture of Being Seen

Warning: Enrollment Is Down Up to 50% at Event, Tourism & Hospitality Schools Worldwide

Carl Winston and the Discipline of Building Something That Wasn’t Supposed to Matter

Tahira Endean: Born with Event DNA

Gathering Economy Takes: The Strategy Is in the Design

Inside the Hiring Room of the Gathering Economy

A New Era of Event Agencies: Inside Invision, Where Culture Becomes the Strategy

WHAT THE AGENDA SAYS ABOUT YOUR EVENT

The Experience of the .0001 Percent

What the Miami Boat Show Is Really Selling

PART 3 — The Facilitation Crisis: Why We Must Train Leaders to Convene

PART 1 — Why Most Meetings Fail Before They Even Begin

PART 2 — Inside the Rooms That Actually Work

Act II½ – The Intimacy Rooms

Act IX – The Reflective Rooms

Act VIII – The Celebration & Ritual Rooms

Act VII – The Digital & Hybrid Rooms

Act VI – The Commerce & Exchange Rooms

Act V – The Diplomatic & Negotiation Rooms

Act III – The Participatory Rooms

Act IV – The Innovation Rooms

Act II – The Conversational Rooms

Act I – The Legacy Rooms

The Retention Problem No One Wants to Admit

The House That Knew How to Behave

The Gathering Economy Takes

The Horizon Line:2035

Why Encore Bought FIRST — and What the Deal Reveals About the Future of the Gathering Economy

How Governments Incentives Are Quietly Rewriting the Global Events Calendar

The Exhibition Reset

Disney Just Elevated the Gathering Economy to the Corner Office

The Quiet Industry That Moves Cities

BravoCon and the Gospel of Guilty Pleasure

Culture Drop: February Inspiration and Intelligence for the Convening Class

THE JACK MORTON COMPANY 2026 OUTLOOK REPORT SIGNALS A REORDERING OF THE EVENTS INDUSTRY

EventCamp and the Power of Participatory Events

My Take: The Trump Davos Speech, the Role of the Organizer and Price of the Stage

Five Incredible People the Convening Class Should Know- January 2026 Edition

Adam Parry, Event Industry News Co-Founder, and the Quiet Reordering of the Events World

Monique Ruff-Bell:TED’s Empress of Engagement

David Allison and the New Values of Events

25th Anniversary: The Beach, the Crowd, the Crisis: Lee Brian Schrager and the Story Behind America’s Wine & Food Festival Boom (and Slowdown)

Derek Pacqué: The OG of Coat Check and Trust

Davos, Without the Badge

Before the Dream, There Was the Room

The Goosebumps Machine and The Future of Feelings at Great Events

The New Frontier: Inside the Space Event Race

Taking the Industry’s Temperature

Washington's Velvet Rope of Influence

Combating Lookism and the Rooms That Still Sort Us

The Editor Who Taught an Industry How to Listen

Convening Leaders-Reading the Main Stage: Meaning, Money, and Why These Voices Show Up

CONVENING LEADERS: READING THE MAIN STAGE

The Agenda Analysis: What PCMA's Convening Leaders Conference Says About the Event Industry Right Now

January 2026 Culture Drop