What's changing in corporate events — pricing, formats, expectations.
Planners used to lock venues nine months out. In 2026 the average brief lands closer to four. Here is why the booking window keeps compressing, what it costs you in rate and choice, and how to plan when the runway keeps getting shorter.
As teams come back to the office, the offsite did not die. It changed shape and clustered in specific metros. Here is what I am seeing in booking patterns city by city, and what it means for your dates and your rate.
The headline says event budgets are flat. The invoices say something else. Here is what I am seeing in real client budgets this year, where the money moved, and how to read a flat number that hides a 15 percent cost increase underneath.
Report After three rooftops in two years where the wind, the heat, or both made the event a mess, I started keeping notes. Two years and 41 walk-throughs later, here's what I found.
Procurement teams now ask for event carbon numbers the same way they ask for a certificate of insurance. Here is what the reporting request looks like, what the venue can and cannot give you, and how to collect the data before the invoice closes.
Report The procurement checklist for corporate event venues has grown by roughly 40% since 2022. Here's what I'm seeing in actual RFPs, what it costs venues that can't comply, and what planners need to know before they brief a venue.
Report The anti-conference isn't a conference with the sessions removed. It's a conference designed around the thing everyone agrees is the real product: the conversations that happen between sessions. Here's how it's structured and who it's right for.
Report Hybrid events promised to solve attendance and access. Three years in, the honest verdict from production is more complicated: hybrid done right is 40% more expensive and still mostly broken. Here's what actually works.
Report Three years ago every corporate event brief included a social media strategy. Now I'm fielding requests to actively block it. The shift is real, it's accelerating, and it's not just a legal reaction — it's a cultural one.
Report In 2022 several high-end event venues sold NFTs as access tokens, VIP membership badges, and ownership shares in future experiences. Most of it collapsed by mid-2023. I tracked three venues through the experiment. The lessons are worth keeping.
Report Post-event surveys get a 12% response rate if you're lucky, they arrive two days late, and the feedback they capture is whatever the respondent felt on a Wednesday morning. Here's what's replacing them and why it's better.
Report I've spent 14 years on AV and production. I've watched three technology cycles promise to transform corporate events. AI moderation tools are different. Here's what's actually working right now and what's still vendor hype.
Report I've been tracking event length against attendance drop-off since 2022, and the data I'm seeing across my own bookings is clear: two hours is where most corporate events should stop. Here's why, and what it costs you when you don't.
Report The sit-down dinner used to be the anchor of every corporate event. Now I'm cutting it from more briefs than I'm keeping it. Here's the trend, the math behind it, and when dinner still earns its place.
Report Five years out is close enough to bet on and far enough that nobody's held accountable. I've been running association and policy events since 2011. Here's what I think actually sticks by 2030.
