Miguel Neves

For female event professionals, challenges come at every turn. That’s in an industry that, by most counts, is about 80% women.

The Czech capital is investing $65 million to solve a problem many cities face: turning away lucrative large events due to lack of meeting space.

BOARD is hoping springtime in the French Riviera will help lure 2,000 European business leaders to its March launch event.

The White House wants more control over federal conference grants. The events industry associations and the scientific community are pushing back saying the layers of federal oversight added to conference grants, professional membership disbursements, and international research partnerships will be disastrous.

London and Partners ( L&P ), the city's growth agency and parent organization of the London Convention Bureau , has confirmed unspecified funding cuts. It said it will be making “savings that include reductions to activity and changes to team structures and roles.”

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Skift Take Plenty of people talk about data in events. Fewer pair it with the human context that explains what dashboards can't. Share

Forrester has named Cvent ON24 RainFocus Kaltura , and Zoom as leaders in its second-quarter evaluation of virtual event management platforms, which looked at both the strength of their current offerings and the strength of their strategy.

The latest event tech news points to AI shifting from bolt-on features to connective tissue, letting organizers bring their own AI rather than accept a built-in one.

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