Connect Meetings’ largest annual event, Connect Marketplace, is heading to Miami Aug. 25-27, and is expecting to bring some 3,000 event industry professionals along with it. BizBash Innovation ForumFor the first time, the BizBash Innovation Forum is being held in conjunction with the larger Connect Marketplace event. Breaking away from the traditional trade show wrap-up, Connect Marketplace is ditching a stuffy closing keynote for a lively closing reception headlined by Flo Rida. And after the sun sets post-Flo Rida concert, the Northern Lights Drone Show will put on a spectacular display of synchronized patterns and formations in a true finale to Connect Marketplace 2025. For more information on Connect Marketplace, visit the event’s website.