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How To Prepare For A Career In Event Planning

Endless Events

Event planning is a viable career for those who study: Marketing, PR or mass communications, Hospitality or hotel management, Business administration, Human resource management. Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published in April 2014 by Kaitlin Colston. Consider Applying For Event Planning Certificates.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

Obvious problems (“known knowns”) have known solutions, often called “best practice” For example, how do I: Determine what employee data to store in the human resources system? In the meetings world, the most well known are the series of EventCamps that were held around the world between 2010 and 2014.

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‘Be Yourself, and Everybody Else Can Adjust to You’

Convene by PCMA

Ashlee Ammons (pictured) and her mother, Kerry Schrader, co-founded Mixtroz, an event-management software company, in 2014. But it turned out just the opposite was true: Ammons becomes only more animated and passionate when speaking about Mixtroz, an event-management software company she co-founded in 2014 with her mother, Kerry Schrader.