The U.S. Congress passed a six-year extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) on Thursday, January 8, making it the first bill passed in 2015. “The terrorism risk insurance program must continue as it will enable economic growth and allow our communities to rebuild in the e

IAVM member Jeff Blosser says he turns away $200 million a year because the Washington State Convention Center is too small for big conventions. For example, a conference of emergency room physicians recently turned down the venue. “That is a show that we know we could get back,

I’m continuing Consumer Electronics Show coverage from my desk, and I came across another product you may be interested in for your venue. It’s called a Comfort-Shell, made by Silentium. Four microphones are hidden on the shell’s outer layer and they pic up the noise

The 5th Annual Lights All Night Festival just packed 40,000 citizens of EDM nation into the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. Al Rojas, assistant director at the convention center, invited IAVM’s magazine team to attend the 2013 festival where we saw first

It’s the last week of January (sorry, we mean December; we got way ahead of ourselves), and we, too, have the listicle bug. It’s that virus that infects all blogs and websites and forces them to post their top 10 stories of the year. So, instead of fighting it, we’re