Results for Executive Events

Remember when we used to talk about how trying to keep up with online information felt like drinking out of a fire hose? Given the overflow of new ideas, information, and opinions stuffing our social-media channels and inboxes, that almost sounds manageable now. So, as we — Convene‘s five on-staff writers and editors — looked back over 2016, we asked ourselves this question: What’s one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year
ROBOTS AND OTHER NEXT-GEN TOOLS
Michelle Russell, Editor…

Don Kent, President of the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute, was standing in the seafood aisle of a Whole Foods in the affluent San Diego neighborhood of La Jolla recently when he took out his phone and snapped a photo of a fresh-looking branzino
“Branzino is European sea bass,” Kent explained. “It’s grown in the Mediterranean. And it’s flown 6,900 miles from Greece to here and then it’s put on ice in La Jolla.”
Kent, whose organization studies the intersection of nature and human…

Including our favorite, “You know it’s freezing outside, right?”
We’ve all been there. The eggnog gets spiked at the party and the climate denier questions start up. Here’s what you’re likely to hear – and how to shut them down
How can there be global warming when there’s a polar vortex?
Climate change throws natural systems out of balance. What it does that mean? Previously uncommon events like extended periods of extreme warm or cold weather become more likely and frequent .
Wasn’t…

No matter how carefully plotted your customer journey map, it can always benefit from a fresh perspective—especially one from outside your organization. The map we developed and were using and fine-tuning for years at the B2B technology company for which I work is a case in point
That version is no longer. With some direct feedback from an astute analyst a year ago, we made some major changes. It has not been an easy process, but the experience is worth sharing here. Especially…

By Sharb Farjami, CEO, Storyful
The social media analytics market is set to exceed $9 billion in four years, but are quantitative approaches enough to make sense of the modern social landscape
The social media landscape is rich with consumer insights and equally rife with disinformation. The absence of meaningful content moderation and the complex interplay of ideas and platforms makes it more difficult than ever…