This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Signe Schønemann Signe Schønemann is Brand Manager Marketing & Communication at Bellagroup ( www.bellagroup.dk ). Schønemann is dedicated to maintaining brand excellence, driving ROI, and shaping effective brand strategies. · Silvano Schaer Silvano Schaer is Chief Commercial Officer at Congrex Switzerland ( congrex.com ). Sc...
Dec 12, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Felix Willert Felix Willert is head of events at Seedhouse ( www.seedhouse.de ). As the head of events and marketing, Felix orchestrates the innovate! convention, a paramount event for agrifood startups. · Christine Hense Christine Hense is member of the executive board and director people & operations at INTEPRLAN ( www.int...
Dec 08, 2023•2 min•Season 1Ep. 4
A quick take on the latest stories curated from News Junkie. Get News Junkie: https://www.pcma.org/campaign/news-junkie/ Meet the Convene Editors : · Michelle Russell, Editor in Chief Michelle has been Convene's editor in chief for more than two decades. Early in her career, she was an nonfiction books editor at Random House and has also worked as a writer for several startups. She most enjoys spending time with her family. · Barbara Palmer, Deputy Editor Barbara’s wide-ranging, award-winning wo...
Dec 07, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Scrap Giant Makes E-Waste Problem Impossible to Ignore A nearly 20-foot-tall, 1-ton sculpture made of discarded electronics was the centerpiece of a first-ever Sustainability Village at a global consumer electronics and home appliances trade show. By Curt Wagner, digital editor at Convene. Additional Resources : · Read the story here: www.pcma.org/value-giant-makes-ewaste-problem-impossible-ignore-wertgigant Follow Convene: Website: pcma.org/convene LinkedIn: linkedin.com/showcase/pcma-convene I...
Dec 06, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Felix Willert Felix Willert is head of events at Seedhouse ( www.seedhouse.de ). As the head of events and marketing, Felix orchestrates the innovate! convention, a paramount event for agrifood startups. · Christine Hense Christine Hense is member of the executive board and director people & operations at INTEPRLAN ( www.int...
Dec 05, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Maria Düthorn Maria Düthorn is event manager at Siemens AG ( www.siemens.com ). Apart from organizing events around the globe, Düthorn is also a certified advertising professional. · Ben Goedegebuure Ben Goedegebuure leads Maritz Global and Industry Presence efforts ( www.maritzglobalevents.com ). Goedegebuure represents Maritz ...
Dec 01, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 3
A quick take on the latest stories curated from News Junkie. Get News Junkie: https://www.pcma.org/campaign/news-junkie/ Meet the Convene Editors : · Michelle Russell, Editor in Chief Michelle has been Convene's editor in chief for more than two decades. Early in her career, she was an nonfiction books editor at Random House and has also worked as a writer for several startups. She most enjoys spending time with her family. · Barbara Palmer, Deputy Editor Barbara’s wide-ranging, award-winning wo...
Nov 30, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ‘Actively Practiced at Every Level’ In an EduCon 2023 session, DEI consultant Zoe Moore shared how event professionals can integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into all aspects of their organizations’ operations by implementing a supplier diversity program. By Casey Gale, managing editor of Convene. Additional Resources : · Read the story here: https://www.pcma.org/diversity-equity-inclusion-actively-practiced-every-level/ Follow Convene: Website: pcma.org/...
Nov 29, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Maria Düthorn Maria Düthorn is event manager at Siemens AG ( www.siemens.com ). Apart from organizing events around the globe, Düthorn is also a certified advertising professional. · Ben Goedegebuure Ben Goedegebuure leads Maritz Global and Industry Presence efforts ( www.maritzglobalevents.com ). Goedegebuure represents Maritz ...
Nov 28, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark and hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Amélie Trémolières Amélie Trémolières is Communications and Events Operations Lead at ESAE (European Society of Association Executives) ( www.esae.eu ). Trémolières is value-driven and committed to use communication to foster connections between the EU civil society and institutions. · Annalisa Ponchia Annalisa Ponchia joined AIM Gr...
Nov 24, 2023•3 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Reimagining Downtown An innovative meetings story - how a conference redefines downtown by expanding beyond Chicago’s ‘Loop’. By Barbara Palmer, deputy editor at Convene. Additional Resources : · Read the story here: https://www.pcma.org/conference-redefines-downtown-expanding-beyond-chicagos-loop/ Follow Convene: Website: pcma.org/convene LinkedIn: linkedin.com/showcase/pcma-convene Instagram: instagram.com/pcmaconvene X: twitter.com/pcmaconvene Subscribe to our newsletters : pcma.org/subscribe...
Nov 22, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 2
This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark and hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Amélie Trémolières Amélie Trémolières is Communications and Events Operations Lead at ESAE (European Society of Association Executives) ( www.esae.eu ). Trémolières is value-driven and committed to using communication to foster connections between the EU civil society and institutions. · Annalisa Ponchia Annalisa Ponchia joined AIM ...
Nov 21, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2
This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark and hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Laura Caprioli Laura Caprioli is a Growth Programme & Stakeholder Manager at VisitBritain (www.visitbritain.com), the UK's national tourism agency. She has a Master of Science degree from Lund University and a Bachelor's degree from IULM University. Laura is a member of the PCMA 20 in Their Twenties class of 2023. · Dr. Zena Bur...
Nov 17, 2023•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
A quick take on the latest stories curated from News Junkie. Get News Junkie: https://www.pcma.org/campaign/news-junkie/ Meet the Convene Editors : · Michelle Russell, Editor in Chief Michelle has been Convene's editor in chief for more than two decades. Early in her career, she was an nonfiction books editor at Random House and has also worked as a writer for several startups. She most enjoys spending time with her family. · Barbara Palmer, Deputy Editor Barbara’s wide-ranging, award-winning wo...
Nov 16, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 1
A More Charged Environment As face-to-face events return in full force, organizers and venues are assessing additional new risks, like potential disruptive behavior, that can make their events feel less safe and welcoming. By Michelle Russell, editor in chief at Convene. Additional Resources : · Read the September-October issue here: https://www.convene-digital.org/convene/library/item/september_october_2023/4139578/ Follow Convene: Website: pcma.org/convene LinkedIn: linkedin.com/showcase/pcma-...
Nov 15, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Introduction: This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark and hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : · Laura Caprioli Laura Caprioli is a Growth Programme & Stakeholder Manager at VisitBritain ( www.visitbritain.com ), the UK's national tourism agency. She has a Master of Science degree from Lund University and a Bachelor's degree from IULM University. Laura is a member of the PCMA 20 in Their Twenties class of 2023...
Nov 14, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to the Convene Podcast! Convene’s editors spend their days speaking with business events professionals and experts in other areas, as well as researching and poring over content about the business events industry and the larger world of business. Now, in addition to our print and online articles, we want to bring these insights to you in a new format — the Convene Podcast is back with a new concept and new episodes, available wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome message by Michelle R...
Nov 13, 2023•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
‘It’s so hard for me to go from being a Northeast-coast, New Yorker/D.C./ Type-A personality, very driven, to say — actually say — working less is going to make me more productive.' – Leigh Stringer, workplace strategist Our annual salary survey, due out June 1, revealed that a lot of you are feeling frazzled. You list stress and lack of work/life balance as the aspects you like least about your job. Respondents also talked about the need to be always on and digitally available; the crazy hours ...
May 24, 2017•15 min•Season 1Ep. 11
“If our conferences become more problem-focused as opposed to more traditional discipline-focused, you’ll see these diverse groups coming together. Which I think is exciting and sort of mind-opening.” – Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Listen: http://convenesite.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Convene_Ep10_Dell-Medical-School.mp3 Illustration by Selman Designs Clay Johnston thinks the U.S. healthcare system is broken. Health costs in th...
Apr 11, 2017•10 min•Season 1Ep. 10
“If you’re going to have people come to a live event, then let’s celebrate their being alive. And asking them to sit silently, passively in the dark for hours at an end is not celebrating their being alive.” — Charlie Melcher Listen: http://convenesite.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ConveneEp9.mp3 Intro music composed by David McMillin Charlie Melcher began his career in book publishing, but his company, Melcher Media, is anything but traditional — in addition to books, it releases apps...
Feb 07, 2017•13 min•Season 1Ep. 9
“[People] are choosing alternative ways of getting together and doing things. They’re not filtering their lives through the lens of these major social institutions like they used to.” Josh Packard, a sociology professor at the University of Northern Colorado, never expected to be involved with the meetings industry. His research looks at why Americans stop going to church or being involved in other social activities — everything from joining the PTA to taking part in local politics. Packard got ...
Nov 30, 2016•11 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Telecommuting is a good thing for both employees and employers in many ways — including less stress for workers and increased productivity, Kim Elsbach, a professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, told Convene Podcast’s Ashley Milne-Tyte. But there are potential downsides for you and your career, she warns, including the risk of fewer promotions and lower performance evaluations compared with more visible coworkers. “It’s to your benefit to be aware of those potential risks so you...
Oct 12, 2016•13 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Women dominate the meetings industry — yet, as Convene's 2016 Salary Survey revealed, there’s a pay gap between men and women of almost 25 percent. In this podcast, Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Sara Laschever , an author and speaker on women and leadership, who says that some of that disparity may boil down to salary negotiations, which many women find harder to navigate than men do. Even female meeting professionals who are very successful at negotiating for their companies and clients probably d...
Sep 21, 2016•12 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time, in a conversation inspired by the revelation that nearly 80 percent of the meeting professionals who responded to Convene ‘s annual salary survey didn’t take all of the vacation they earned last year. That’s all too common, Schulte said. In the U.S. “we don’t have a history or culture of embracing taking time off to recharge, relax, refresh, enjoy your life. There has always been a ver...
Jul 15, 2016•13 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Illustration by Daniel Chang. “ Now, my dad one time said to me — he, in fact, he said to me several times — will you be a beekeeper or a keeper of bees?” – – Philip McCabe, president, Apimondia Podcast host Ashley Milne-Tyte talks with Philip McCabe, president of Apimondia, the global body that represents beekeepers, about how the organization's biannual conference plays a unique role in working to reverse the alarming decline of the world's bee population. The global conference, which is condu...
Jun 17, 2016•10 min•Season 1Ep. 4
“ Our corporate head of PR … called me and said, do you really want to get involved in this? And then, at our first town hall, when we introduced the topic, you could physically see people not wanting to hear what we were sharing. But sometimes out of that level of discomfort comes some of the greatest growth.” — David Peckinpaugh In this conversation, Convene podcast host and journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to David Peckinpaugh, president of Maritz Global Events, about how his company has ta...
Apr 27, 2016•12 min•Season 1Ep. 3
“If you think about conferences as huge hubs of like-minded people, why don’t we ease their job and help them to learn from each other, if that’s what they need?” — Christine Renaud Convene podcast host and journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Christine Renaud, CEO of e-180, a tech platform that helps people share expertise one-on-one — including at meetings. An interview with Renaud also appears in our March issue. http://convenesite.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Convene_podcast_Marc...
Mar 23, 2016•13 min•Season 1Ep. 2
“ When I think of mindfulness bringing it into our world of events and meetings, it’s about really creating space in the brain for deeper thinking, for driving deeper moments for meaning, for connections, creating some white space in the brain. ” — Janet Sperstad In this conversation, Convene podcast host and journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Janet Sperstad, CMP, program director for the Meeting and Event Management Degree Program at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin, abou...
Feb 16, 2016•11 min•Season 1Ep. 1
