Smart Meetings

For the annual Smart Meetings Incentive Experience in the Islands of the Bahamas this week, we welcomed the three top minds in researching trends in motivational program design.

From AI to Wellness, these keynotes mastered the stage with expertise and inspiration. This is why they are the winners of the 2025 Smart Speaker Awards.

The American West of the 1870s was as far as can be imagined from a five-star hospitality experience, especially along the new railroad lines that replaced the wagon train trails. There were no dining cars in those territories yet. Locomotives needed to stop every 100 miles to take on fresh water for their steam engines. One man transformed all this. Along with, over the course of his enterprise, some 100,000 women.

For Marriott Convention & Resort Network’s Meet with Momentum Summer in the City customer event based at Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, the brand played to the strengths of the destination with creative immersive activities.

In this episode of What One Thing?, Natasha Miller, founder and CEO of Entire Productions, joins Smart Meetings Vice President and Content Director JT Long to talk about her path from musician to entrepreneur, the power of self-education and more.

Sports venues also have a way of engaging and creating memorable experiences with their local community, something meeting planners can leverage to make their events even more memorable by getting their groups involved during and around sporting events and engaging with the local community.