02/14/2023

How a Meeting Planner Swap Could Improve Your Own Conference

A look at how one event pro embarked on such a journey in 2020

In 2020, Robyn Jones, director of conferences and events for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), found herself with a virtual convention to plan for the following year but didn’t know the inner workings such a meeting would require.

“We needed to choose a virtual platform, which we’d never done before, and I had no idea where to start for planning a meeting like this,” she said.

Like many of her colleagues, she was assessing how organizations like hers were faring during the early months of the pandemic. She had her eye on the American Library Association, and its virtual annual meeting slated for June 2020.

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