Tony Conway, CMP, says his move from hotel catering to off-premise event planning was all about freedom. “I had spent my entire 20-year career in a ballroom,” he explains. “I was ready to get out and be in different venues, be a bit more creative...
Creating a 48-hour computer game competition scheduled to run simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York was a welcome challenge, says Julia Zarro, creative director and production designer for Los Angeles-based Zed Ink. With only five weeks to...
Your looks — if you're lucky — may not have changed much in 10 years. But it's remarkable how much the special event industry has. This point came home to event producer Halle Becker-Henkin, head of New York-based Comet Productions, who produced...
It was, as baseball great Yogi Berra put it so beautifully, déjà vu all over again...
The "Healing Hearts" fund-raiser held Dec. 12 at BillboardLIVE in the South Beach section of Miami raised more than $20,000 for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to event organizers...
Although special event professionals aren’t predicting the double-digit growth rates for the industry that they have in the past, an informal survey in November by Special Events Magazine reveals that they still expect a respectable 7 percent...
The tragic events of Sept. 11 have taught all of us in the event planning industry to put business in the right perspective. What may often seem like a "crisis" in our industry is nothing compared with the tragedies experienced by thousands of...