New Tours, New Connections at AMC The 2015 Arena Management Conference (AMC) puts new tours center stage on Tuesday, September 22. First, it’s a look at non-musical tours hitting arena calendars with Mark Duryea, vice president, north american routing & tours, FELD Entertain

Imagine getting to vote for future session content at a conference. Well, South by Southwest (SXSW) allows you to do that with its PanelPicker, which is now open for voting through September 4. I tell everyone in earshot that SXSW is one of the greatest conferences one can attend for

KeyArena in Seattle played host to 12,000 professional video game players last week for the International Dota 2 tournament—an event that offers a $6.5 million prize for the first place winner. To compare, Jordan Spieth netted $1.8 million for winning the 2015 Masters Tournament. So,

IAVM reached a notable membership milestone this year with Candice De Hont, an event manager at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas, becoming the association’s 5,000th member. We briefly spoke with De Hont at VenueConnect to learn more about her. Why did you join IAVM? 

We aired our third episode of The Venue last Friday, but if you missed it, no problem. We recorded it, and you can listen to the above audio of it. On this episode, we were joined by our guest host, IAVM Chair Kim Bedier, CFE, and we discussed a variety of topics, such as SMART goals