Please welcome our newest members who joined IAVM in March 2017. Thank you for being a part of the association! Also, let us get to know you better by participating in the I Am Venue Management series. Please visit http://www.iavm.org/i-am-venue-management-share-your-story&n

Edmonton’s Shaw Conference Centre has become the latest convention center to be certified to an international sustainability standard for the meetings and event industry. The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) certification is awarded to venues that achieve high standar

The Facility Doctors is a new column in the pages of Facility Manager magazine co-edited by Dr. Kimberly Mahoney and Professor Gil Fried. The column appeared in the March/April issue and the next installment is in the May/June magazine. But we need your help, or more specifically, you

After a 30-year run, Tim Dean, long-time director of the Arkansas State University Convocation Center, retired on March 31. Dean began his career as the concert coordinator for the Student Union Board while a student at the university before being hired as assistant director at the Co

Tricia Gonyo, vice president of sales and marketing at VenuWorks, was nominated by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as a candidate for its 2017 Man & Woman of the Year (MWOY) national campaign. Candidates of the MWOY campaign have 10 weeks from March 9 through May 20 to