AAE Speaks: Blog | AAE Speakers Bureau

You announce your keynote speaker and something happens that doesn’t always happen: the Slack channels light up. They’ve been listening to that voice in their earbuds for two years. They know the recurring themes, the way the speaker frames a hard question, the cadence. That’s the parasocial advantage — and it changes what a keynote […]

Booking the perfect speaker often comes down to one thing: timing. We keep track of exciting speaker updates so that you can anticipate the latest trends, topics, and rising stars to bring to your next event. A speaker whose story is circulating in the culture right now lands differently than one who isn’t — your […]

The PCMA Outlook 2026 Corporate Sector Executive Summary, published in March 2026 in collaboration with MCI, is a 30-page research report drawn from a quantitative survey of corporate event teams conducted in the second half of 2025. Most planners we talk to have heard of it. Fewer have had the time to read it cover […]