By Kevin Kurtt The Minneapolis Convention Center (MCC) announced that it has achieved Gold Level certification for the Events Industry Council (EIC) Sustainable Event Standards. The EIC Sustainable Event Standards are specific standards for environmental and social responsibility with

By Britaney Wehrmeister The Overland Park (KS) Convention Center announced a partnership with Pete’s Garden, a food recovery organization that recovers surplus prepared foods from local caterers, restaurants, and food service operations, and repackages and redirects the food as health

By R.V. Baugus When you are from Canton, Ohio, home to the NFL Hall of Fame, you know that sports have to be in your blood. This is especially true of Heather Lyke, director of athletics at the University of Pittsburgh and Arenas/Stadium keynote speaker on August 1 at VenueConnect. Ly

By Molly Rosenberg Entertainment consulting company Venue Coalition announced industry veteran JoAnn Armstrong will be joining the company as Vice President of Programming. In her new role, Armstrong will focus on servicing the company’s 150+ member venues across North America, assist

By Sindri Már Hannesson Leading global event ticketing software company Tixly has been selected as the official ticketing partner for Trafalgar Tickets. Later this year, Trafalgar Tickets will start to use Tixly’s intuitive ticketing solution which has been a resounding success