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4 days ago | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
According to data from MPI’s Q2 2025 Meetings Outlook survey, a majority of event professionals are experiencing significant negative impacts on their business due to recent U.S. executive orders and policy changes. Three-quarters (75%) of survey respondents said these actions are already having a negative impact on their business. In fact, 62% of respondents report only negative effects.
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5 days ago | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
In the second part of this series, two additional event professionals share best practices and advice on managing uncertainty, based on their experience. (If you’d like to share your own insight, contact me.) This is Part 2 of a series on uncertainty in the global meeting and event industry. Lauren RiosVP, Sales + Marketing, Platinum XPMPI Kansas City Chapter“While we continue with business as usual, it changes in the sense that we get even more proactive.
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1 week ago | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
Event professionals are faced with uncertainty from seemingly every direction in the current business landscape. To help you manage business uncertainty—in 2025 and beyond—we’re asking your event peers to share best practices and advice based on their experience. (If you’d like to share your own insight, contact me.) This is Part 1 of a series on uncertainty in the global meeting and event industry.
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1 month ago | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
For nearly a decade, MPI has specifically and vocally been committed to fighting the scourge of human trafficking. To that end, the association’s Anti-Human Trafficking Committee has been dedicated to spreading awareness and education to meeting and event professionals worldwide.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
The pandemic challenged MPI’s Hawaii-based members more than most chapter communities. Their hard work, however, has paid off. Heather Bailey, president of the MPI Aloha Chapter, shares insight on this exciting return!The MPI Aloha Chapter is back! How’d this happen? We were so blessed to have the dedicated support of many key individuals.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
At IMEX America on Oct. 10, Devon Montgomery Pasha presents “Designing for impact: Transforming events,” to share the valuable #EventCanvas methodology. We spoke with her in advance of that to learn more about the program and what attendees should expect. The Event Canvas methodology is so logical but is also often an “ah ha!” moment for event professionals when they’re introduced to it. Why does the Event Canvas methodology still has that impact nearly a decade after it launched?
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
Global events consultant Carlos Oliveira shares genuine and keen insights on design thinking in advance of his Oct. 10 session at IMEX America, “Reimagine events: Design sprint for positive change.”How do you define “design thinking”? Design thinking is a human-centered approach to solving complex problems through creativity, collaboration and empathy.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
Ahead of her two IMEX America sessions on Oct. 9, strategic EDI consultant Zoe Moore provides some quick inclusivity considerations. How do you feel diverse cultures can best be appreciated in the context of events—ways that not only appear genuine, heartfelt and authentic, but actually are? When the theme of an event is rooted in education, collaboration and long-term impact they are more than likely to be genuine, heartfelt and authentic.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
During IMEX America week, travel skills and meeting risk professional Kevin Coffey presents three can’t-miss sessions. On Smart Monday, Coffey shares travel-related best practices to stay safe with “Street-smart travel: Insider tips from a detective’s playbook” and “Must-have travel gear and accessories.”On Tuesday, Coffey presents his essential session, “Smart risk mitigation for small to mid-size meetings.”Are there components of risk management for which you feel professionals are lacking?
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
mpi.org | Michael Pinchera
Ahead of her Oct. 9 IMEX America session, “Authenticity through social impact: A success guide,” Courtney Lohmann, CMP, explains the challenges and stumbling blocks most often encountered by event professionals seeking to create or enhance the social impact of their events. What first attracted your attention to the social impact and social good potential of events? The impact we have on communities has been a focus of mine since I first started planning events.
