The Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta welcomes Serge Belair to the position of executive chef on February 1, 2017. The appointment, announced by venue General Manager Lisanne Lewis, brings one of the rising chefs into the job after Chef Serge received the award of Edmon

I recently returned from IAVM’s International Convention Center Conference (ICCC) in Pasadena. It was a great event, and I learned a lot from both the speakers and from the colleagues who I got to meet for the first time or get to know a little bit better. The convention center indust

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COMThe Hawai‘i Convention Center is on pace to end the year with its first profit since it was built in 1998. This statue, “The Water Giver,” by Maui artist Shige Yamada, is on the Kapiolani Boulevard side of the center. Article originally publ

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Pictured above (Front row, left to right): Bill Flynn, Bruce Davidson, Ray Bloom (Back row, left to right): Brad Mayne, Larry Arnaudet, Eric Roszenberg, Richard Vaughn, David DuBois, Kevin Olsen   How Prepared is the Meetings Industry for Elevated Threats of Terror? Recently the