The Darwin Convention Centre was awarded winner of the Meeting Venue – 500 delegates or more category at the 2017 National Meetings & Events Australia (MEA) Industry Awards. The awards ceremony took place on May 8 at the Adelaide Convention Centre, where the industry’s lead

Dasha Kelly gets the performing arts world. She totally understands what it takes for those venues to become “satellites for transformation” to become fresh, energetic, and, perhaps most important, relevant. “For the past 20 years, I have existed in the performing ar

This has to fall in the category of “They don’t make ’em like they used to.” Phil Coyne, 99-years-young and an usher for Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games since 1936, decided it was time to hang up the ushering cleats, citing a recent fall and some balance issu

Claude Molinari, general manager of SMG/Cobo Center, announced the Cobo Center operations team have taken janitorial services in-house. The new department was created just prior to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) and is headed by Cedric Turnbore, Cobo Center directo

When Dr. Richard Peddie, best-selling author and the first president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment in 1998, stands before the audience at VenueConnect in Toronto on Wednesday, July 25, to present his Executive Track keynote on “Creating a Winning Culture,̶