How can coffee cost $110++ per gallon? How is hotel water for tea $90++ per gallon? Why is the hotel or convention center trying to charge meeting room rental when I’m paying over $100 per person for a dinner?  Catering is a huge and important part of your contracting with a hotel and many times, normally all of your Master Account, but it is seldom negotiated. Since catering is the most profitable part of the Food and Beverage department, there

An event isn’t anything without attendees. Many times though, (especially if your staff is small) you spend so much time on actually planning the event that you suddenly realize, you need to create and execute on an event marketing plan. Join this session and learn how to generate the highest amount of registrants, how to decide what mix of email, social media, public relations, and other types of promotions can help your conference or tradeshow drive attendee registration and excitement.

Does all this noise about GDPR matter to you, the event planner? It does if you are handling the personal data of EU citizens who attend your events or work in an EU company for any of your upcoming events. Join this webinar and get the down low on what exactly GDPR is and what you and your organization should ensure is in place for compliance

What seasoned event managers know is that the two most important things you’ll need to pull off your event are permission and money. Whether you’re a non-profit organization raising money for charity or a company trying to build a profitable event – or anything in between – you can’t get your event off the ground without the proper strategy and tactics in place. 

Your conference is over, but that doesn’t mean your work is. The weeks after your event are one of the most important periods of the planning process. In this webinar, Hubb founder and longtime conference planner Allie Magyar, CMP will share how you can recover from the toll of your event, what you do on your first day back in the office, how to analyze your event and then use that to start the next planning process. Be a master

In today’s distracting world, attention spans are shorter than ever, and people are even busier. As a presenter or meeting sponsor at an event, it’s tough to compete with the constant distractions diverting your audience’s attention. This webinar shares how you can capture more.

What are some strategies that can help us better profile our own events for possible security vulnerabilities as well as enhance various protocols onsite and offsite that can keep our attendees, vendors, exhibitors, and even our own staff safer? Join Jeff McKissack, President of Defense By Design, and learn how to better spot trouble *before* trouble spots you — or your events.

Since Apple announced its changes to Rule 4.2.6. this June, there have been a lot of rumors, updates, and upheaval in the event planning community where mobile event apps are concerned. Join Pathable CEO, Jordan Schwartz, and hear what meeting planners should expect post-Appageddon.

Event gamification can be used by event planners in many different ways before, during, and after events to drive effective, interactive attendee habits and behaviors. Join us for an overview of the ways you can increase foot traffic in your exhibit hall, boost attendee engagement and networking, or maybe just give your attendees a way to relax and better connect with their professional and business opportunities.

CMP Domain: Event and Meeting Design

How do you ask outrageously and get what you really want? Linda Swindling shares tactics and strategies that allow you to show up powerfully to negotiate for the best deals at work and in life with confidence and integrity. It’s possible to achieve breakthrough results just by asking.

Learning Objectives
Based on research from former attorney Linda Swindling’s latest book, this fun and engaging webinar will leave you proven strategies to:

-Ask for what you really want
-Show up powerfully

“I’m working twice as hard to produce the same results.” That’s what we hear from so many planners in today’s competitive market. Brad Langley, CITE, MBA, Vice President at etouches, will highlight the latest advances in venue sourcing that are giving efficiency and collaboration a boost. Planners will come away with solid tips on how to leverage technology to showcase their value and negotiate with hotels to win in a fast-changing landscape.

Learning Objectives 
Gain insights on the seismic shifts

Recorded on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 11 am PT / 2 pm ET

There’s nothing like the buzz of an event to make members feel excited, engaged, and ready to take on the world. If you want to harness that energy and maintain it year-round, a members-only community could hold the key to keeping the party going.

Online communities help your members to connect with others like them—people who share

(Recorded May 17, 2017)

What if you could schedule a meeting without having to send three dozen emails to find a time everyone could meet? Or automate the little tasks that keep you from the real work of creating phenomenal attendee experiences? Or create on the fly pro-looking videos that capture those amazing moments you just want to share with your conference community?

And what if you could pull all this off straight from your mobile device — without an

(Recorded April 20, 2017)

Help your attendees and exhibitors get M.I.N.D.Ful about their body language and stop undermining their own networking efforts at conferences, tradeshows, and events.

Attending any industry conference is an investment financially and in time — and the costs even higher if your attendees don’t make the connections and meet the people they need to strengthen their professional networks or meet with new prospects. As the event planner and strategist, you want to help attendee networking thrive,

(Recorded Wednesday, March 29, 2017)

From artificial intelligence to virtual reality, hybrid meetings to chatbots, how will you prepare for the groundswell of change event planners are facing? This webinar gives you the tools to succeed in it and whatever else the future might hold.

Join our experts from the future, Jim Spellos of Meeting U and Pathable’s CEO Jordan Schwartz, as they discuss how event planners and suppliers can best prepare for the ongoing massive changes in our industry.

(Recorded Feb 22, 2017)

Speakers can make or break your event. Why would you hire one that isn’t worth the investment?

With budgets tightening and seemingly everyone becoming “an expert”, it seems easier than ever to book someone to speak at your next event. That doesn’t always mean they’ll deliver high-quality content, engagement, or learning for your attendees, though.

Some speakers just don’t get how events work, some planners do not empower their speakers. And sometimes hiring and securing a

(Recorded January 24, 2017)

Ever wondered why your competitors’ web sites show up higher in search results on Google and Bing than yours? Do you know what SEO, SEM, SERP, PPC, CTR, SEM and CPC mean? Whether you know or not, they are the key factors determining how many learn about and register for your conferences and events through Google, Bing and online advertising.

Pathable and Eventbrite, the event industry’s leading event app and ticketing and registration companies, have recruited

(Recorded November 16, 2016)

Meeting Evolution’s Rob Wilson returns for Part II of his highly acclaimed Lean Six Sigma for Event Planners series.

Lean Six Sigma is a combination of identifying waste and reducing variation in a process to deliver a product or service to a customer consistently. There are many tools that are used by Lean Six Sigma practitioners to deliver that consistent product or service to the customer.

The most common tools used by Lean Six Sigma practitioners

(Recorded September 21, 2016)

Watching a conference come to life after months of hard work is rewarding, but that joy can be quickly squashed by thinking of the millions of emails it took to get there. You’re a strategist and a big thinker–you have bigger problems to worry about than constantly reminding each speaker or attendee to submit their bios or herding the cats (we mean graders) to review those abstracts.

Through simple automation, you can increase the productivity of

(Recorded July 20th, 2016)

Sponsors are from Mars Organizers are from Venus.. Or it just seems that way?

What do sponsors want? ROI.. more leads.. more exposure. It seems like we really need to get creative in order to attain and retain those sponsors. But creativity is running low and resources (aka, money) are getting tighter. So how can we boost that ROI and be our sponsor’s hero by delivering real results?

Join us for our webinar where we’ll go

(Recorded June 22, 2016)

Turning your volunteers into a strong motivated team has never been easier. Identify your volunteer program’s strengths, weaknesses and alarming pitfalls in five easy steps from: Volunteer Training, Job Descriptions and Risk Controls to Volunteer Management Technology and Evaluation.

Volunteers can be your greatest event assets – the better you prepare, the better return you can receive on your volunteer investment. Learn how at this powerful educational webinar co-hosted by Florence May of TRS.

Learn new ways to increase attendee engagement and build long-term relationships with your conference attendees. We will cover techniques for improving pre-event engagement, leveraging the app to encourage face-to-face interaction and how to keep the conversation going after the event is over.

Originally recorded Wednesday, May 18, 2016

There’s a new battleground out there, with hackers, cybersecurity experts, governments, and spies all struggling over information – your attendees, your members and your own. Responsible event professionals look for ways to protect their data and privacy, but cutting through the technical mumbo-jumbo and media hype can be daunting.

Learner Outcomes:

• Online security and privacy and what’s the difference.
• Your top five real security risks (and the ones you can ignore no matter what

Originally recorded Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Choosing an A/V vendor for your conference doesn’t have to be a nail-biting experience. Learn from the experts what questions to ask, what issues matter for your event, and how to vet the candidates to ensure you get what you need.

Jon Trask of AVforPlanners lead this tour of the key questions to ask your vendor, tools to help you build RFP’s and pro tips for making the right call.

Photos remain an emotional, impactful way to connect your attendees with the event in a meaningful, lasting way. But the tools and techniques have come a long way since the digital revolution began.

Join Tim Hoyt, President of PictureMarketing, for a tour of the latest trends and ideas in photos at conferences and events, including the Matrix-style photos at Super Bowl 50, live social sharing tools and much more. Co-hosted by Pathable’s Jordan Schwartz.

(Originally recorded February 24, 2016)

The hospitality industry has many certifications, but few carry beyond our industry. Lean Six Sigma is recognized as a methodology with toolsets that span all industries, worldwide.

Rob Wilson of Meeting Evolution leads this webinar, co-hosted by Pathable’s Jordan Schwartz. Learn what Lean Six Sigma is, and how it can help you to manage your meetings more effectively and efficiently.

Think creating a mobile event app for your conference will be difficult or time consuming? Think again!

Join Jordan Schwartz, CEO of Pathable, for this bite-sized webinar that will show you, step-by-step exactly how easy it is to create an app for your conference or event. Includes creating your agenda, adding exhibitors, venue maps and tradeshow floor maps, even connecting the system to your favorite registration system.

Please note: Although this was advertised as a 20 minute webinar, the entire

Keeping your attendees engaged when not face-to-face at an event is the holy grail of event marketers and association community managers. How do you engage your attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, and speakers before, during and after your event? This session offers a practical guide to leveraging events to build year-round community, while engaging your exhibitors and sponsors.

We cover such topics as:

• Goals and benefits
• Tool review with pros and cons
• Benefits and uses of public social media and private networking

The Internet has shifted from a broadcast, one-to-many media to a social, one-to-one and many-to-many media. Leveraging social media for conferences, tradeshow, congresses and conventions can be critical to their success. The shift has introduced new tools, techniques and opportunities for people and organizations involved in “the original social media platform”: face-to-face events.

Join Microsoft veteran Jordan Schwartz, president of the digital event experience platform company Pathable, and Christine DeFazio, Content Marketing Manager at SignUp4 for this primer, meant to

What are the latest technology trends in the event industry, and how can you leverage them to keep your events current and dynamic?

• What’s happening in the mobile app events space, how how to choose your provider
• What hardware improvements are coming to devices to streamline your registration, checkin and lead retrieval process
• What is an “API” and how can you use them to integrate the services you use to power your event
• What’s the latest trend in presentation software

You know the social media basics: if people like your brand on Facebook and retweet you on Twitter, you multiply the reach of your message. Is that all there is?

Join Jordan Schwartz, Microsoft veteran and CEO of Pathable along Sara Altier, Community Manager for Eventbrite for a deep dive on taking your social strategy. Learn the cutting edge tricks of the trade that the digerati and expert social media marketers use to promote and connect with their audience. You’ll

Survey data misses a large number of issues, and recent research has shown that behavioral data can provide a much more accurate, valuable lens into attendee attitudes. Join psychologist and technology entrepreneur Jordan Schwartz for a special webinar, with eye-opening techniques you can use to more accurately understand what’s in your attendees’ heads.

Enter your information at right to receive a link to an on-demand recording of this entertaining and useful webinar.

We all want the online community where so many people are actively engaging around a topic that it goes viral and your next event sells out in seconds.

Unfortunately, this type of community is quite rare and typically, does not occur by design. Check out this fun, dynamic webinar, presented by Suzanne Carawan, CMO for etouches. She talks about what is possible, offers great real life examples and how you can leverage virtual and live experiences.

• Event Timeframes: Learn modern

Sponsors and events need to be a perfect fit. But B2B and B2C events have different needs, and should be attempting to attract different types of sponsors.

No matter what type of event you’re organizing, check out this great starting point to help you fully utilize sponsorship as a monetization channel. View our on-demand webinar “Finding Sponsors for B2B vs. B2C Events,” with content presented by SponsorHub CTO Andrew Reid.

• Learn how & why B2B sponsorships differ from B2C sponsorships

Go to the cloud for your events. Join Pathable and Eventsforce for insights on this increasingly vital topic.

The use of cloud technology can help you meet and exceed goals throughout your event’s life cycle. Join these two industry-leading companies to learn best practices on evaluating cloud technologies and using them to improve your event’s efficiency and value.

• Cloud vs. Server: Pros & cons of cloud technologies versus client based software
• Evaluating Technologies: Choose the best tool for your event

You can’t afford to neglect event ROI. Understanding, measuring and reporting your return on investment is essential to your event’s success, but knowing which ROI metrics to capture can be overwhelming.

Access the slides and recording from our recent webinar “Plan & Measure Your Events to Deliver Profit Improvement” and hit the ground running. Learn from Ed Jones of Constellation Communication Corp. how you can plan, accomplish, measure and report your event’s value.

• Setting & Expanding Objectives: Create more value

Online communities play a vital role. Often, professionals don’t realize that successful online communities require strategy, diligent management and promotion…and that neglecting these can lead to disaster.

This presentation will give you the best tips and tricks for keeping an online event, conference or association community focused and thriving.

• Value of Online Communities: From networking to collaboration
• Creating a Community Mission & Setting Goals: How to choose your mission and suggestions for community goals
• Defining Community Roles in Your Organization:

Attendee demand for mobile apps is growing every day, but how do you know which app is the best fit? There are so many vendors, so much functionality and so many different pricing models that it is overwhelming to narrow down the field.

Presented by meeting professional Michelle Bruno, these materials will help educate and empower you to make decisions around mobile apps for events.

• Attendee Needs: Which needs can mobile apps address?
• Strategy: What a does a mobile solution