The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Occupation · SOC 13-1121.00 · Job Zone 4

AI exposure: Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners

Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.

Reading this score

computed

40.6% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners at the 72th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.8 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.

What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 21 tasks it averages 1.95 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.

The most exposed thing this job does is Consult with customers to determine objectives and requirements for events, at 73.3%. The least is Evaluate and select providers of services according to customer requirements, at 8.3%. A gap of 65.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.

Within business and financial operations occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 47.5% across the group's 48 roles, with 37 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.

What would move this score. Of 21 tasks, 12 are currently banded exposed, 6 assisted and 3 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Task by task

21 tasks, O*NET 31.0
TaskExposedAssistedUntouchedImportanceBand
Consult with customers to determine objectives and requirements for events, such as meetings, conferences, and conventions.73.3%26.7%0.0%4.60exposed
Promote conference, convention and trades show services by performing tasks such as meeting with professional and trade associations, and producing brochures and other publications.67.1%20.4%12.5%3.54exposed
Design and implement efforts to publicize events and promote sponsorships.67.1%20.4%12.5%3.06exposed
Maintain records of event aspects, including financial details.60.0%40.0%0.0%4.26exposed
Plan and develop programs, agendas, budgets, and services according to customer requirements.50.0%25.0%25.0%4.02exposed
Conduct post-event evaluations to determine how future events could be improved.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.99exposed
Direct administrative details, such as financial operations, dissemination of promotional materials, and responses to inquiries.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.84exposed
Review event bills for accuracy and approve payment.45.0%30.0%25.0%4.54exposed
Confer with staff at a chosen event site to coordinate details.45.0%30.0%25.0%4.34exposed
Obtain permits from fire and health departments to erect displays and exhibits and serve food at events.45.0%30.0%25.0%3.02exposed
Monitor event activities to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and laws, satisfaction of participants, and resolution of any problems that arise.40.0%35.0%25.0%4.14exposed
Read trade publications, attend seminars, and consult with other meeting professionals to keep abreast of meeting management standards and trends.36.7%13.3%50.0%3.33exposed
Coordinate services for events, such as accommodation and transportation for participants, facilities, catering, signage, displays, special needs requirements, printing and event security.35.0%40.0%25.0%4.40assisted
Arrange the availability of audio-visual equipment, transportation, displays, and other event needs.35.0%40.0%25.0%4.35assisted
Meet with sponsors and organizing committees to plan scope and format of events, to establish and monitor budgets, or to review administrative procedures and event progress.35.0%40.0%25.0%3.75assisted
Organize registration of event participants.35.0%40.0%25.0%3.80assisted
Develop event topics and choose featured speakers.35.0%40.0%25.0%3.71assisted
Negotiate contracts with such service providers and suppliers as hotels, convention centers, and speakers.23.3%26.7%50.0%4.08assisted
Hire, train, and supervise volunteers and support staff required for events.20.0%17.5%62.5%3.99untouched
Inspect event facilities to ensure that they conform to customer requirements.8.3%16.7%75.0%4.31untouched
Evaluate and select providers of services according to customer requirements.8.3%16.7%75.0%4.06untouched

Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.

Where the score comes from

judged

Every task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.

DimensionMeanScale
Capability2.790-4
Embodiment0.690-3
Presence1.290-3
Accountability1.190-3
Context1.950-3
Verification cost1.360-3

What this means in practice

Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.

Occupations either side of this one

The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.

Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.