The coronavirus pandemic has upended operations and activities across nearly all industries, but meeting and conference planners face a particularly daunting challenge.
“Obviously, the impact to the events and trade show industry has been cataclysmic,” said Amy Calvert, chief executive of the Events Industry Council, a trade group.
Ms. Calvert said her group’s members were being forced to reinvent nearly every aspect of their jobs, from shifting in-person meetings to remote platforms, to thinking about how everything from big presentations to buffet lines would need to be altered — or eliminated — once people started to gather in person again.
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