Meetings

The Meetings Mean Business Coalition advocacy group has appointed Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau president and CEO Julie Coker Graham as its... KEEP READING

The American Express Meetings & Events 2018 forecast predicts minor regional spend variations, including a slight uptick in North America and a slight... KEEP READING

Small meetings technology provider Groupize landed $3.25 million in Series A funding, led by Thayer Ventures. The investment follows an increased... KEEP READING

Event management software provider Etouches has added a Venue Sourcing offering to its platform. It uses the sourcing and booking technology Etouches... KEEP READING

Proske—which focuses on live marketing for meetings and strategic meetings management and has offices in Munich, Frankfurt and Rosenheim, Germany, and... KEEP READING

Mobile event app provider DoubleDutch has acquired meetings and event registration and management technology Eventgrid for an undisclosed amount. The... KEEP READING

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation will expand the role of data governance for corporate travel management and for meetings and... KEEP READING

By 2020, Millennials will form 40 percent of the workforce, according to CWT Meetings & Events' recent 2018 Meetings & Events Future Trends report. That... KEEP READING

Groupize has integrated with Concur's Third-Party Meetings. The simple meetings app also now uses the Concur Travel Profile 2.0 application programming... KEEP READING

Traditional meetings management has become just one part of the business strategy for meetings. The investment community figured this out and has poured... KEEP READING

American Express Global Business Travel has acquired London-based international event management agency Banks Sadler and folded it into American Express... KEEP READING

Event Tech Tribe—a collaboration between integration-minded, cloud-based meetings and event technology firms Hubb, Glisser, Swoogo and TRC—has added a... KEEP READING

Hotel solutions company HRS launched its small meetings product Meetago in North America in July and will begin to add South American markets this... KEEP READING

Parexel director of global procurement and travel Benjamin Park's end-to-end small meetings program has realized savings not only by leveraging... KEEP READING

Managing small meetings—with as few as 10 people or even as many as 50—has proven a tough nut to crack for a lot of companies. It feels like they should... KEEP READING