Taylor Smith

1 week ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

This week, more than 100 people traveled far and wide to Irving, Texas, just outside of Dallas, for our first Meetings Today LIVE! event of 2025.

3 weeks ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

Items that once appeared at the top of meeting and events planners’ convention-center checklist— advanced technology infrastructure, continuous exhibition halls, clean-and-green certifications—have become so common and nonnegotiable, there’s no need to list them anymore. They’re staple, unquestionable deliverables. Now at the top of the list items such as unique venues and locally sourced F&B appear. So, what does a convention center need to stay one step ahead?

3 weeks ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

Road trips with his family made hotels feel like a second home for Amani Roberts, chief musical curator at The Amani Experience. “We would drive everywhere, and staying in hotels was so cool to me,” Roberts said. “So, I went to school for hospitality management at Howard University, with a concentration in finance, and that’s when I started to work and get into hotels. That was the beginning.”The beginning of his hospitality story, at least, but Roberts’ book of life has many chapters.

4 weeks ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

As an essential component of all meetings and events, food has the potential to be more than just fuel. On the surface, organizing F&B at an event is nothing more than a basic requirement to keep attendees fed, but when planners understand how food can be used as a tool for encouraging conversations, fostering relationships and creating memorable experiences, they can transform meals into moments of interaction and collaboration.

1 month ago | meetingstoday.com | Taylor Smith

The Z: The Benefits and Appeal of Competitive Socializing