FLASH SALE: Save $200 on Organizer registration with code ec24FLASH200. Valid through Friday, May 31, 2024.**
PCMA Business Events Summit is an advanced, members-only education experience

If you already have an account with PCMA, CEMA, EMA, or PCMA Institute, we encourage you to use the same email address when creating your RainFocus account.
To register, you must create an account with RainFocus, our new event registration platform. If you registered for Convening Leaders 2026, use those same log in details.
If you already have an account with PCMA, CEMA, EMA, or PCMA Institute, we encourage you to use the same email address when creating your RainFocus account.
To receive the PCMA Member rate, individuals must be a member in good standing at the time of the event. Join/Renew your PCMA Membership.
*For new PCMA members only. Please allow up to 5 business days for your new member benefits to update. Additional discounts not applicable.
**Cosmic Savings promo code is valid November 25 – December 2, 2024 and only applicable towards Member and Non-member Organizer and Supplier registration categories. Promo code is not valid towards Student, Faculty and New PCMA Member rate categories. If already registered, we cannot issue a refund credit. We appreciate your understanding.
For registration support, please email [email protected].
***Terms and conditions: Offer valid through midnight (Chicago time) November 27, and applicable towards member and non-member registration for organizers and suppliers. Promo code not valid towards student, faculty, new PCMA member, Next Gen or Regional (outside US/CAD) rates. If already registered, we cannot issue a refund credit. We appreciate your understanding. Additional discounts not applicable.
Convincing Your Boss
Download our helpful template to gain support for your participation at EC25.
Convincing Your Boss
Download our helpful template to gain support for your participation at EC25.
Apply for a Scholarship
Business Events Strategists: Submit for a chance to receive free registration and a travel stipend, courtesy of Visit Louisville.
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“I joined PCMA in the early 90’s and have made an effort to attend Convening Leaders and the Education Conference ever since. Over the years I’ve actually come to enjoy EduCon more than CL because it is somewhat more intimate and consequently navigating the education, networking and still handling my responsibilities with my clients is less daunting. EduCon provides focused sessions that help me with my relationships with colleagues, clients and suppliers and offers me the opportunity to engage more actively in the sessions I attend.”
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“The PCMA EduCon Conference should not be missed. In addition to the extraordinary networking opportunities available to all attendees, the conference content is top notch. The sessions offer something for everyone and you always take home a nugget or two to take back to your team. Plus, I love the size of this event, you get a chance to connect with everyone.”
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“Attending PCMA EduCon is a must-do for any planner or supplier in our industry. I love the size of the meeting because I am able to see old friends and network within smaller groups to make new connections. The education sessions are new & fresh and tend to cover topics that other conferences are not. I returned to my office with a list of innovative ideas that I wanted to implement.”
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“Every year I look forward to attending EduCon because of the education and personal connections I make there. It’s a smaller group so it’s more intimate and it’s easier to have meaningful one-on-one conversations. The experiential learning sessions are interesting and a great way to get out of the traditional meeting rooms to learn something new.”
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“At EduCon, PCMA experiments with new and innovative learning environments, offering content around key and driving topics. I look forward to the event each year, it’s the right size all sessions very approachable for networking and learning over the course of a few days.”
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“Over the years that I have not only attended but actively participated at the PCMA-EduCon, I have learned, grown and felt immediate enrichment in my professional as well as personal life. EduCon affords a unique way to learn in a different mode that allows you to toss away the Gen this and X that categories and explore in “personas”. EduCon causes me to pull out my thoughts and ways of interacting and examine them to give either a yes, I will continue down this road or someone share a new way that I should consider. In the synergistic aura that permeates this intimate meeting, I feel free to explore, challenge and learn with no judgements or “wrong methods”. The meeting of the minds, the growing of thoughts and openness to new ideas is what I so look forward to at every EduCon meeting…and I have yet to be disappointed.”
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“PCMA EduCon is one of my most favorite education and networking events. The size and intimacy of PCMA EduCon has resulted in deeper connections, and the ability to engage and learn in a comfortable environment. Some of my biggest business opportunities have resulted by my attendance at this annual conference. I highly recommend the investment!”
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“My team calls PCMA Educon our ‘little secret’, and not sure that we want everyone to know how inspiring it is. We love the smaller format and rich learning and connections that flows from that. Don’t tell anyone.”
Get Fit with the Foundation – 5K Fun Run/Walk
Start your morning off right with a 5K course set up right on the property that will wind runners through the beautiful desert landscape surrounding the resort. All proceeds benefit the PCMA Foundation.
- Date: Thursday, July 8, 2021, 6:30 am– 7:30 am
- Location: JW Marriott Desert Ridge
- Ticket price: $40 USD The registration fee is non-refundable.
Hospitality Helping Hands
Register to participate in a social impact activity right at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge. In this fun and worthwhile charity event, your group is formed into teams of no more than 10 people that complete tasks to get the parts and materials necessary to assemble, test, and decorate wheelchairs for donation. These wheelchairs will be donated to the Arizona Chapter for Paralyzed Veterans of America, which serves US military veterans who endure Spinal Cord Injury and Spinal Cord Disease/Dysfunction.
- Date: Thursday, July 8, 2021, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
- Location: JW Marriott Desert Ridge
- Ticket Price: $85 USD The registration fee is non-refundable as it’s a donation.