Skift Meetings Studio Team

Event planning might not be every youngster's first career choice but it can easily steal your heart and get the endorphins pumping. Here are 14 top reasons why you can’t help but fall in love with it.

Did we fall asleep and wake up in George Orwell's 1984? Face recognition software is everywhere. Even your event.

Gaming events are about two things: technology and community. You need to maximize both in order to host a successful gaming event. Here’s how.

If you are feeling like you live out of a suitcase and that airports are your second home you need this essential list of 32 popular event destination airports with free WiFi.

It seems that nobody can escape virtual reality, least of all the event industry. Here we identify five of the rising trends we're seeing right now.

Most of us are products of the period of time in which we are born into. At least our language is. Today’s event planners have a whole new way of speaking compared to 20 years ago. Here are a few words we use now that meant something totally different in the past.

This week’s Sanremo music festival in Italy has seen a social media first: a brand sponsor’s logo, in emoji form, attached to an event hashtag. Although some Twitter users seem upset by sponsored emojis at the moment, they could become an essential part of an eventprof’s arsenal.

Here are some easy and helpful techniques and ways to help you sharpen your mind and up your event planning game to stay ahead of the competition.

There are very few fashion shows that are accessible to the masses but Victoria’s Secret have done just that. We analyse how they reinvented one of their main events to make their luxury products appeal to everyday people.

Where there is data, there is cash - at least that's true from the perspective of a hacker. With technology and connectivity on the rise, the opportunity for exploitation of data is rife. A recent hijacking of a hotel's electronic key entry system highlights a new vector of attack for fraudsters and a continual security threat for venues and eventprofs alike.