The announcement was made Monday, May 4th, to students and faculty of Venue Management School that VMS 2020 will not be held, due to the current status of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the ability for students and faculty to travel.  VMS will resume as planned in 2021.

By R.V. Baugus The other day I got a phone call from a long-time friend who wanted to just chat. He is one of the fortunate ones still employed who has a weekday off each week on his schedule. Early in the conversation, he threw out a line that I did not know whether to receive as a q

By Julian Bowman Fair Park First and Spectra, managers of Fair Park in Dallas, worked with the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) to bring the NTFB Disaster Relief Mobile Pantry to Fair Park on April 2 and 16. The NTFB converted their mobile food pantry to a drive-through model to limit con

By Kerry Painter, CVE In the December 2006 issue of Facility Manager magazine, I wrote the following: “The story here is not about buildings, moldy carpets, insurance issues or structural integrity. What I’ve come to learn after endless weeks is that the story is about change, adaptio

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed, not only the world, but especially the current scope of the public assembly industry. One thing it has not changed is the servant leader hearts of those venue professionals who power it.  IAVM is not just an association, it is a family of 7,000+