Skift Take
Right now, the meetings and events industry is divided between focusing on the value of innovation and the cost of ignorance, and industry leaders have a lot to say about both.
The Future of Meetings & Events
This week's Meetings Innovation Report is a battle between the past and the future, much like the Divided States of America itself these days. Innovation versus ignorance defines 2017.
We have a couple stories below about the Dublin Tech Summit this month focusing on women leaders in tech and the growing conversation around the ethics of robotics.
We also have links to three stories highlighting the inanity presently occupying the Texas legislature. The focus there is about pushing through another "bathroom bill," because that wins a lot of votes among part of the nation's electorate desperately clinging to the past.
John Graham, president and CEO of the American Society of Association Executives, said he will pull the organization's 2021 annual meeting out of Dallas if the bill passes. Summing up how those of us not living in the 1950s feel, he stated:
“We are deeply opposed to any laws that permit or even give the appearance of tolerating discrimination. In addition to being regressive, these types of laws could also cause serious harm to the meetings and conventions business in any state that adopts them, creating an unwelcome environment for convention sponsors and attendees, and a strong incentive for convention
