The Rise of Brooklyn, 5 Event Startups and More Skift MeetingsIQ


The Skift MeetingsIQ newsletter defines the future of meetings and events with an emphasis on disruptive strategies that improve knowledge sharing. Subscribe for weekly updates: [hubform id='0c0e5397-d16e-4436-965b-4d5a6aa35695'] The Future of Meetings How Brooklyn's Innovative Culture Is Driving the City's Evolution as a Major Meetings Destination: Brooklyn is leveraging its hipster-y, creative, maker-culture mojo to develop an alternative events destination to Manhattan for next gen meetings and conventions. It's all still very early, but a slew of edgy new group venues and 20 hotels in development are attracting the attention of national meeting planners seeking something beyond Manhattan's conservative group infrastructure. “The challenge in the world of conventions is d