By Hilarie Carpenter, CTA ASM Global’s Kathy Bart, an IAVM member and Director of Sales & Event Services for DeVos Place Convention Center, has been named “Best Supplier” in Michigan Meetings + Events magazine’s 2020 Hall of Fame. Michigan Meetings + Events’ Hall of Fame honors p

By R.V. Baugus When the Monster Energy AMA Supercross was shut down after completing 10 of its scheduled 17 races this past March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no finish line in sight for the conclusion of the FIM World Championship event. So, when Feld Entertainment announc

By Paul Pettas Sodexo and Centerplate are hosting a webinar entitled Convention & Conference Centers Reimagine Live Events, on Wednesday, July 8, at 11 a.m., Eastern Time, with IAVM First Chair Rip Rippetoe, CVE, featured as the guest expert. In the midst of never-before-imagined

By R.V. Baugus Dig if you will a picture … sorry, just had to go with some Prince lyrics because, for most of the world, hosting a sporting event before a sold-out crowd of 43,000 where patrons actually sat next to each other and where technology played a major role in allowing that t

By Jon Adkins and R.V. Baugus The Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC), a Division of ISSA, announced that the Georgia World Congress Center, site of IAVM’s VenueConnect in July 2021, is the first public assembly venue to achieve GBAC STAR™ facility accreditation. The G