Discover the Best Meetings & Events News and Resources in Wisconsin

Sitting along the shores of the Fox River and Lake Winnebago, you’re never far from a cool river breeze when you bring your group to the Fox Cities.

While meeting and event planners are bombarded by news of the in-person event making a comeback, there’s good news to share in the virtual realm as well. Live attendance is up for both virtual events and webinars, with an increase in attendee engagement pre- and post-event via resource downloads, live chat and on-demand replay.

Large or small, your meeting group will find Janesville’s convenient location, exceptional customer service and variety of venues to be the ideal place to provide attendees with memorable experiences that inspire. 

In an effort to ignite the hospitality workforce, attract more hotel employees and dampen the impact of the workforce shortage across services, the American Hotel & Lodging Foundation is partnering with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps.

If you’re not talking about climate or a sustainable environment, more than mere buzzwords, you’re already late in the meetings industry.

Unfortunately, the travel industry isn’t escaping the same issues that are plaguing many industries across the globe right now— inflation, energy prices, supply chain challenges, labor shortages and more.

Considered a “hidden gem” of the Midwest, The Osthoff Resort is located in an idyllic waterfront destination nestled in the heart of Wisconsin’s Kettle Moraine State Forest in Elkhart Lake.

To help coordinate disparate efforts, this summer, the U.S. Travel Association launched a new Sustainable Travel Coalition to help align the travel, transportation and technology sectors in developing and advancing strategies to enable a more sustainable future for the broader U.S. travel industry.

If you are a planner who is organizing your first major event, avoid the following often-overlooked mistakes so you can take your guests’ experience to the next level.

Planning and successfully executing events requires a delicate balancing act of long checklists, hard and fast deadlines, keeping stakeholders updated, making sure the right people are in the right place at the right time and more. Luckily, there are plenty of tools and platforms available to planners to ensure that the planning and event management processes run efficiently, and events go off without a hitch. If you’re looking for options for collaboration, planning and event management, here are six tools to consider.

As a virtual and hybrid event tech company, I work with meeting planners all day long. Here’s what I’m advising for contingency planning.

Blue Harbor Resort is the only full-service destination resort nestled on the Wisconsin shores of Lake Michigan with spacious meeting rooms, accommodations, dining options, and more!

Digital and hybrid events amass volumes of data that, with the right tools, can help planners continually improve events.

Rebecca Staats takes the reins at Meeting Professionals International- Wisconsin.

Meeting on the water provides plentiful lakefront views. We’ve got 4 stunning venues that are sure to impress your guests!