
2023 | COLUMBUS | JANUARY 8 – 11
Ignite your path.
PCMA Convening Leaders 2024
SAVE THE DATE: Jan. 7-10, 2024
VENUE: San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr., San Diego, CA 92101
You belong to a trailblazing industry
Designed to lead the business meeting industry into the future, Convening Leaders is an epic gathering of one-of-a-kind experiences, dynamic discussions and powerful networking.
Join your community to connect, collaborate and explore ways to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Ignite your path at CL23.
Be part of an incredible opportunity: Helping brands, communities and organizations connect people with purpose to ideas and opportunities after two years of being apart.
Reconnect with the world’s best event professionals: One for all generations and nations that combines inclusive community engagement opportunities, iconic education and entertainment and a reimagined person-to-person activation platform.
2023 HEADLINERS & FEATURED SPEAKERS

Thomas Brag & Ammar Kandil

Allyson Felix

Adam Grant

Daniel Pink

Carly Fiorina

Chris Nassetta

Matthew Slaughter

Ben Erwin
Convene Covers Convening Leaders 2023
- How Marketers Use Data to Create More Successful Events
A Convening Leaders 2023 session on data offered case-study examples of event marketers who are figuring out how to analyze registration data and make quick shifts to increase attendance.
- Is Event Technology Prepared for Another Pandemic?
Three event executives discuss strategic challenges for international business events — including whether event technology is better positioned to handle another public health crisis that requires events to return to digital-only experiences.
- What Exactly Is the Metaverse? Here’s One Expert’s Take.
Entrepreneur and academic Tommaso Di Bartolo, speaking at Convening Leaders 2023, tackled the metaverse questions many in events are asking.
HEALTH & SAFETY
PCMA has partnered with Safe Expo to create an onsite plan keeping everyone’s health & safety in mind.
Learn more about the measures we’re taking to protect you.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Convening Leaders brings together the brightest minds and innovators in the business events industry to ask a simple question:
Where to next?

Community
Connect with other business events professionals in powerful keynote sessions, intimate workshops, and networking receptions.

Content
Hear from speakers who are tackling the big challenges facing the industry today, and learn how your workplace, audience, business, and purpose must transform to stay ahead.

Commerce
Discover fresh strategies and new technology that are bringing live and digital experiences to the next level and redefining the future of business events.
CL23 Trailblazers
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See You in San Diego!
The future of business events is coming. Are you ready?
WHAT THEY SAY…
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It’s everything you need in three days to build your career.
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I’ve been coming to Convening Leaders for the past 10 years. I just think the education, the latest technology — anything you’re looking for to plan your meeting — it’s at Convening Leaders.
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It’s a great refreshment of re-connecting and networking with people, and then on top of it, you get this great education and inspiring speakers. For me, it’s the best way to start off your year. If you’re not attending PCMA Convening Leaders, you really should.
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It is the best conference I’ve ever attended. Ever. And, as a seasoned professional, I get so much out of it. I can’t tell you how many pictures I’ve taken on my phone of new ideas I’m looking forward to taking back to my corporation.
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Everyone’s here. It’s a great opportunity for you to reconnect, reinvigorate yourself and be able to start fresh in the new year.
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I'm looking forward to connecting with other event professionals and learning new strategies to create the best conference possible.
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(2019 Convening Leaders was) my second time attending. I was genuinely blown away the first time and had gained so much exposure and experience from the previous year.
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