Miguel Neves

All you need to know about the most significant investments, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships connected to the event industry. We disclose the companies involved, the numbers, the details, and more importantly, why it matters.

This report ranks destinations based on representation in international association leadership. It introduces a “harnessing ratio” as an indicator of how well destinations are leveraging their intellectual capital to attract conventions.

I have some exciting news to share: Today EventMB became Skift Meetings.

VSef, which aims to make it easy for event organizers to move data securely between event platforms, CRMs, and business intelligence tools, has partnered with several high-profile event organizers, tech platforms, and industry associations. These organizations’ data professionals and senior strategists make up VSef’s working groups. Knowles has previously held leadership roles at CloserStill and […]

Skift Forum Europe 2022 brought together Europe’s top minds in travel and set the scene for what recovery from the Covid pandemic will look like in the event industry. Here we take a closer look at the key trends identified. 

Australian events management software provider EventsAIR has selected U.S.-based event tech veteran Matthew Donegan-Ryan as its next CEO. The move is part of a significant private equity investment led by The Riverside Company. Founder Trevor Gardiner, who was CEO, takes on the role of executive director of product innovation.

The 2022 edition of South by Southwest came to a close on Sunday. This highly anticipated return to in-person experiences in Austin, Texas, was augmented by many sessions streaming online. The success of this edition marks a return to a sense of relative normalcy for tech.

IMEX is the first major event industry show to exclude Russian participation.

In September of 2021, we explored a potential downward trend for virtual event tech as the sector dealt with a largely transient client base that was not looking beyond the Covid pandemic; as a group that looked to virtual event tech primarily as a stop-gap solution, this share of the market is sometimes even referred […]

UK-based event tech unicorn Hopin is laying off 12 percent of its workforce, including four members of the senior management team. Does the downsizing point to a real decline in business or just some housecleaning after riding the wave of virtual meetings?