Taylor Smith

1 week ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

St. Louis knows how to rally. The Gateway to the West played host to MPI’s World Education Congress (WEC) June 18-20, which welcomed approximately 1,900 in-person attendees to the newly expanded America’s Center Convention Complex in the heart of downtown St. Louis.  WEC also attracted about 300 virtual attendees. More than 45% of attendees were meeting planners and 984 experienced the event for the first time.

1 week ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

When groups meet in Iowa, there’s an opportunity for something more than business to take root.  In cities across the Hawkeye State, corporate gatherings have the potential to be powerful vehicles for change, where giving back to the community is part of the agenda and meaningful impact is a key takeaway, leaving just as big an impression on meeting attendees as the new connections they made while networking along the way.

1 week ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

“I cannot explain the magical power of a big wheel that turns an adult back into a 6-year-old, but somehow it does.”Danny Walls, co-owner and CEO of the Atlanta-based Adult Big Wheel Club, made that realization in 2016 when he came across an adult-size Big Wheel-style drift trike and decided to buy one for himself. “They’re kind of an expensive purchase, but you can’t be a 40-something-year-old on a big wheel by yourself,” Danny Walls said.

2 weeks ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

The MidAmerica region is playing a good hand in the gaming industry, offering casino resorts of the likes of those that pepper the Las Vegas and Atlantic City skylines. While those West and East Coast destinations undeniably dominate the casino resort scene, new and upcoming developments across the MidAmerica region are making it an even stronger competitor in the high-stakes gaming industry.

2 weeks ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

In an email sent to the MPI community earlier this month introducing the latest edition of The Meeting Professional, MPI Editor in Chief Blair Potter described MPI’s World Education Congress (WEC) as “the meeting industry’s absolute best ‘my people’ gathering.”And Jessie States, vice president, MPI Consulting, would probably agree.