Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Meeting Professional Continuing Education Includes Sustainability Certification Meeting professionals are taking sustainability more seriously than ever before. Throughout the program, participants use a digital workbook to customize a roadmap for their own sustainable event. So, what’s next? What is the SEPC?

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With the launch of the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge on Nov. 10 during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, a wide-ranging network of global events industry players has united to fight climate change with the ultimate goal of eliminating the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2022

At the time, Hattendorf was chair of the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC), an advocacy organization made up of major international trade associations affiliated with the business events industry. If the event industry wanted to have an agreement in place by the time COP26 was underway, he said, “we needed to get started.”.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 1, 2023

Accor hosts the GME annually, bringing together leadership and representatives from its more than 40 hotel brands with meeting planners, journalists, and other industry professionals. But this year, he said, hotel performance data revealed that demand from travel for meetings and business is back in a big way.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Lopez attributed high attendance during an ongoing pandemic to the fact that participants were eager to meet again in person — even if they were physically distanced — and the critical importance of the climate treaty negotiations. There is a digital dialogue going on all of the time,” Hattendorf said, but “we meet when it matters.

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PRA

APRIL 22, 2022

PRA, a leader in the Business Events Industry, is pleased to announce on this Earth Day that the company has signed the “Net Zero Carbon Event” pledge, a joint commitment across the global events and meetings industry to achieve the targets laid out in the Paris Climate Accord.

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Travel Daily Media

JANUARY 25, 2023

The global event, which convenes over 3,000 attendees to advance hydrogen’s role in the future energy mix, has also announced the confirmed support and participation from the Australia Trade and Investment Commission and the New South Wales (NSW) Government.

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