About Our Meeting Planners Magazine

Why You Belong in the Smart Meetings Community

Bright Business Media, LLC’s mission is to support the meeting professional community whenever and wherever they travel. The dedicated team takes a multi-media approach to making authentic connections, including:

An award-winning digital and print magazine packed with innovative ideas
A dynamic website that features The Smarter Sourcing Connection, Breaking News and a fun weekly Smart Meetings Quiz
What One Thing podcast where leaders share their secret sauce
Knowledge Exchange webinars reinvented where learning is all about the conversation
Smart Experiences, the original meetings and events industry hosted-buyer elevated experiences

MEET MARIN BRIGHT, THE WOMAN WHO STARTED IT ALL

Click to read Marin Bright’s Inspirational story

The Why behind the mission

Over the more than two decades Smart Meetings has been serving the meetings and events community, we have helped our audience navigate economic turmoil, a global pandemic and reinvention of their craft. As new technologies and communication methods have changed, one thing has remained consistent, the way we do business. We are rooted in founder Marin Bright’s understanding of the needs of meeting professionals and the desire to treat everyone with respect. Following are the core values that drive our decisions: