Smart Meetings

Ten years ago, our founder, Marin Bright, launched the Smart Women in Meetings Awards to celebrate extraordinary leaders. We hope the following pages highlight our community's brightest stars.

To find out how meeting professionals are managing the high-stakes business of events, we worked with Destinations International to ask top event designers and experts to share what is causing the most headaches and heard about real-world examples of what they are doing to manage those risks.

MPI's EMEC gathered meeting professionals in Istanbul, Turkiye, for three days of education, exploration and networking in a city that blends old and new, East and West, business and pleasure.

Off-season, blues to bonanza Off-season events can be awesome—reduced lodging costs, no crowds or even the whole destination practically to yourself—but there are risks. How many attendees, for instance, will show up in a beach community known for summertime fun…in the busy weeks leading up to the December holidays? In, say, Gulf Shores, Alabama? Tourism […]

Smart Meetings attended AIME at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. As part of a growing influx of international visitors, I had the opportunity to speak with three key players in the region’s MICE industry

As we head deeper into 2025, attorney Joshua L. Grimes shares advice around event contracts that may be helpful for planners.

For a lot of people, podcasts are the way they get their entertainment and news. With that in mind, podcasts can be the channel to build hype around your next event.