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El Niño isn't a single, high-impact event, but rather several medium-impact events. While those events might be reasonably predictable, how they combine to impact supply chains is unique every time. Advances in weather forecasting mean procurement and supply chain teams have more opportunity than ever to prepare not only themselves, but their whole organisations. The trick is to know what to keep track of, says CIPS Chief Futurist Dr Graham Norris. Read the rest of the articl

Ask a room of event professionals to design 2036 and you might expect holograms, robot hosts and conferences in the metaverse. That is not what happened. At The Meetings Show 2026, working in groups through a structured futures workshop, hosted by our Conference Futurist Graham Norris, they mapped the forces reshaping their world, stress-tested four futures they might inherit, and then designed the one they actually want. The future they described is powered by remarkable tec