March, designated Women’s History Month, marks an opportune time to celebrate the female achievers of the events industry and beyond. We had the pleasure of checking in with six outstanding industry professionals to find out how their organizations support women, what they would advise for the next generation of female leaders and who they believe are women to watch. Monique Ruff-Bell, Head of Events, TED Conferences What are you most proud of in terms of the ways your organization supports women?
A global community of event and experience designers, artists, authors, philosophers, creators, technologists, researchers, and even a few wizards gathered together for Google Xi Days.
Corporate planners from Google, SAP, and Bayer are among those creating centers of event excellence. This week, Google’s efforts hit a milestone, holding
Many event professionals found themselves in the position of rethinking how they design events after 2020 and the onset of the tumultuous COVID-19 pandemic. Megan Henshall, global events strategic solutions lead at Google, was in the midst of doing just that with the newly formed Experience Institute at Google, collecting data around why inclusion and belonging matters and why it's good for business. Simultaneously, her personal life changed when she received the news that her son Otis had been diagnosed with autism.