Karen Edwards shares her experience with becoming co-chair of ABPCO.

It’s an age-old question that surrounds any career path, but events are something that the need never seems to go away for. Why do we spend our time, energy and resources on planning and delivering these as companies? Simply put, it brings people together for fun, learning, networking, entertainment or to share business updates. Events are a rare occasion to get everybody in the same room to hear everything at the same time. I’ve spent most of my career working in events an

As events professionals, if you took a moment to reflect on why you do what you do, what would the answer be? Some may think that it’s about the money, travel, opportunities for meeting new people but, for me and what I think most would agree with, the overriding reason we do what we do is to create memories that last for those attending each event we help to deliver. Nothing beats the look on an individual’s face when they walk into an event space for the first time and see

In events, it’s often the little things that matter the most, like remembering a clients’ birthday, a piece of music for a sting, the position of a menu/table card, for example. However, most importantly, we need to remember as professionals that this might be the only event that your client does this year or even at all and, to them, it means everything. What better example is there of this than when you’re planning a wedding? That’s truly when every tiny detail matters. I w