Event Planners Try to Understand Mobile Devices and Security
Skift Take
The meetings and event industry desperately needs to break down all of its silos so members in all of the different segments have access to a greater breadth of industry insight at a global level.
The most significant transformational shifts in the meetings and events industry are not being addressed as well as they should because the industry is so heavily segmented.
In fact, the meetings and events sector is sometimes referred to as "an alphabet soup of acronyms" due to the many different associations representing each vertical, including: meetings (MPI), conventions (PCMA and CIC), incentive travel (SITE), exhibitions and trade shows (IAEE), associations (ASAE), and many more in the non-corporate arena.
In an effort to bring together top U.S. and Canadian meeting and event planners from across every sector, the International Live Events Association (ILEA) held its first-ever ILEA Global Events Summit in Edinburgh earlier this year. A total of 28 international event professionals participated.
This month, ILEA published the Event Horizons summary research paper in partnership with the Visit Scotland business events agency to catalog the general findings from th
