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Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Consult with customers to determine objectives and requirements for events, such as meetings, conferences, and conventions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Review event bills for accuracy and approve payment.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Coordinate services for events, such as accommodation and transportation for participants, facilities, catering, signage, displays, special needs requirements, printing and event security.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Arrange the availability of audio-visual equipment, transportation, displays, and other event needs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Confer with staff at a chosen event site to coordinate details.Mostly human for now
- 06Inspect event facilities to ensure that they conform to customer requirements.Mostly human for now
- 07Maintain records of event aspects, including financial details.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Monitor event activities to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and laws, satisfaction of participants, and resolution of any problems that arise.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Negotiate contracts with such service providers and suppliers as hotels, convention centers, and speakers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Evaluate and select providers of services according to customer requirements.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss10%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
49%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 50% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Confer with staff at a chosen event site to coordinate details.
- Inspect event facilities to ensure that they conform to customer requirements.