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Change from the Ground Up: How Meetings Can Lead Sustainable Thinking

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Building an environmentally sustainable world is a massive undertaking, but big change starts with individual action. Panelist Marge Anderson said the meeting and event industry holds significant potential to shape how we think about, talk about and implement sustainable practices in our personal and professional lives.
“Our events can really change what people want and what [...]

Meetings that Change the World

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

All this month, The Edge will carry advance and onsite coverage of MPI’s 2010 World Education Congress, July 24-27, 2010 in Vancouver. Posts are linked to an online community produced for MPI by Fusion Productions in partnership with The Conference Publishers, Clever Zebra, and master of ceremonies Glenn Thayer. Join the discussion today!
At any hour [...]

Behind the Curtain: Why the Meetings Supply Chain Matters

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

One of the most profound ways for our industry to green its operations is to think of everything we do as part of a supply chain, not just as an end product.
It’s a simple mental shift that carries big implications for meetings and events. It may run counter to the training and habits that many [...]

Father’s Day Thoughts: How My Dad Helped Build Our Company

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

VANCOUVER—Father’s Day was a travel day for me this year, so this post is as close as I’m going to get to talking to my dad. That’s just as well, in a way, because I can’t think of a better way to start bringing our blog back up to date than by tracing some of [...]

Top 10 Reasons to Attend the Sustainable Meetings Conference

Friday, January 8th, 2010

With the 2010 Sustainable Meetings Conference coming up in Denver February 9-11, the Green Meeting Industry Council is circulating the top 10 reasons that this is a must-attend event.
This might just be the best, most in-depth green meetings conference the industry has ever seen. But the 10 reasons point to a bigger, wider value proposition [...]

After Copenhagen: How Meetings Can Kick the Carbon Habit

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

By the end of this week, the 192 countries represented at the Copenhagen Summit may or may not reach a global deal to control climate change and reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.
But whether or not humanity rises to the challenge, the science doesn’t lie. With or without an agreement, this is the moment for industrialized nations [...]

Okay, You Caught Me

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

(Editor’s note: The following declaration was retrieved from a little-used email cache in The Conference Publishers’ account management department. Those responsible have been sacked hacked.)
The recent release of emails hacked from leading climate scientists has convinced me: the jig is up. I can finally admit the truth. I am a member of a vast, secret [...]

Orlando Underwater: Here’s What’s at Stake at Copenhagen Summit

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Map of projected sea level rise from Carbon Solutions America, reposted on Climate Progress.
How will climate change affect the meetings industry if we don’t slow down and reverse the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Start with a map that shows coastal Florida and Orlando underwater by 2100, and gives you an idea of [...]

The Conference Publishers Turns 25

Monday, October 5th, 2009

I still remember exactly how things unfolded on October 5, 1984, the day The Conference Publishers was born.
I had been in my job for 3½ months, after reluctantly leaving Canada’s Parliamentary Press Gallery and a career in freelance journalism. I had joined a small policy consulting firm as its publications director, hoping to spend all [...]

A Dynamic Dozen: The Making of a “Killer App”

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Everywhere you turn these days, meeting professionals are searching for the “killer app” that will make social media and virtual technologies more an opportunity and less a threat for face-to-face events.
The language of hybrid meetings, virtually unknown a year ago, is quickly gaining currency. MPI experimented with a Virtual Access Pass at its 2009 World [...]

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