Back to the Ballroom: Changes, Expectations and Innovations

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1.0 Clock Hours | Domain B: Project Management

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

As event organizers plan their next event season, returning to or re-imagining the in-person event format is a must-have. What’s changed about in-person events? Are attendees excited? What are their new expectations?  What’s new with venues, AV, tech, activities and norms?  

We’re answering these questions and much more during our upcoming webinar, “Back to the Ballroom: Changes, Expectations and Innovations”! 

Join us on July 12^th as we dive into the world of in-person events! Get ready to hear from industry experts who have already dove back into the in-person event waters. We’ll cover: 

• The big changes! What you need to know for your next expo or user conference 

• Tips to make the most out of your trade shows & expos, from sponsor options, booth design, floor plans, and logistics 
• How to create meaningful engagement at all of your in-person events through experiential sessions, activations and collaboration 
• Best practices for engaging you attendees with the right event format from sessions, content delivery and networking 
• Choosing the right vendor partners to help you source venues, locations, AV and so much more!

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What’s the Real Deal when Negotiating with Professional Speakers

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1.0 Clock Hours | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design

Have you negotiated with a speaker recently? How did it go? What’s your biggest fear when hiring a professional speaker? Gina Davilla, principal owner of The Keynote Shop, and Linda Swindling, JD, CSP, professional keynote speaker and go-to negotiation expert, reveal insider secrets of successfully negotiating with professional speakers. Bring your toughest challenges and burning questions. You will learn negotiation strategies and tips that work to get what you really want. Everything is a negotiation and nearly everything is negotiable.

During this session, you will...

• Do’s & Don’ts of Contracting and Renegotiating
• Truth of What You are Really “Buying”
• Best Practices to Foster Relationships and Achieve Triple-Win Results

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Are You Leaving Money On The Table?: Effective Collaborations with the Divine 9 Organizations

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1.0 Clock Hours | Domain B: Project Management

Ready to add to your client list and enhance your services? Meet or reacquaint yourself with the nine historically African American fraternities and sororities. Walk away with actionable guidance that will allow you to tap into this underserved market and partner with powerful national and international leaders.

Attendees will be able to:
• Articulate key facts regarding the nine historically African American fraternities and sororities (the “Divine 9”) and their significance
• Identify strategies to increase the number of diverse clients in their portfolio
• Effectively communicate the needs of Divine 9 clients to meeting venue personnel
• Improve and expand the services provided to existing Divine 9 clients

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Stop Scrolling, Start Designing Intentional Experiences

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1 Clock Hour | Domain B: Project Management

As we return full-force face-to-face we have to consider the new needs of participants. Having spent the last year hosting events on two continents, there are many shareable takeaways that will be brought forward in this session. 

We will look at...

• If we can't ditch technology, how do we integrate it to drive results? 
• Define your purpose, with tools for stakeholder buy-in. 
• Explore formats you can experiment with for best event participant ROI.

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#RealTalk Dialogue Series | Breaking through the Bamboo Ceiling in the Meeting and Events Industry

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1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources

#RealTalk is BACK! Come engage in deep-dive conversations around the DEI topics that matter most today. It’s been more than a year of conversations and awareness around the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and the challenges that continue to be experienced. There remains, however, a proverbial “Bamboo Ceiling” for AAPI individuals still challenged by underrepresentation and lack of inclusion and voice in visible and critical industry leadership positions. Please join leading AAPI thought leaders and an ally in this important discussion to understand their experiences and to develop thinking and actions to learn to create inclusion for the AAPI and other underrepresented groups in our industry.

During this session, you will...

• Listen to personal stories of experiences and leadership journeys of AAPI colleagues, develop a greater understanding of obstacles.
• Become aware of barriers and methods by which we each can advance actions to leadership.
• Set action steps with knowledge gained from the discussion to greater inclusion in the meetings and events industry for those currently underrepresented.

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Meetings Outlook: 05.24.2022

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1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

Given the reality of the ever-evolving state of business events, meeting professionals are finding it nearly impossible to make informed decisions related to the business of events. What will the conditions look like in the next year? What will the new reality look like? And how are other meeting professionals overcoming current obstacles to grow business? Much is uncertain, but current projections can help. Deep dive into MPI's most recent Meetings Outlook research, published quarterly in The Meeting Professional magazine, and then discuss the trends that are most affecting you and your peers.

Learner Outcomes:

1. Review the forecast for events in the coming year, including a budget, attendance, and business conditions.

2. Deep dive into trends that matter and discuss the next steps with your peers.

3. Learn how these trends affect you and the future of your meetings.

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Load Up Your Accessible Meeting Planner Toolkit

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1 Clock Hours | Domain B: Project Management

Join us as we welcome back Sam Evans as we continue our conversation about accessibility and how to plan for it from the beginning stages and not when you're at the end of the process. Are you as a planner committed to accessible events and do you know how to ask for options at your venues? Are you as a supplier offering accessibility options and are planners aware they are options? According to the CDC, 61 million adults in the United States alone live with a disability. That is 26% (1 in 4) of adults in the United States living with some form of disability. 

During this session, you will learn...

• How and when to include accessibility in your meeting planner timeline. 
• The basics of sourcing accessible vendors for the non-technical. 
• How to always keep optimizing the human experience as your guiding principal.

Did you miss Sam at the start of June? Access the on-demand session here and don't forget to register for her upcoming 30-Minute Monday on May 23rd here.

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The Inclusive Mindset

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1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources

Diversity, enlarging your circle, inclusion, what does that all mean and how do you implement it in your professional career and personal life? Join Justin Jones-Fosu as he takes an unconventional approach to this necessary conversation. Shift your focus away from the cliched overuse to applying everyday diversity that leads to deeper collaboration and innovation. Justin demonstrates how we can leverage the power of listening, appreciating and applying different perspectives to create sustainable cultures of high-performance. Justin will cover practical strategies you can implement to enlarge your circle and move confrontations into conversations in order to manage disagreements and differences in a healthy and respectful way.

During this session, you will learn...

• A practical framework and understanding of the foundational principles of diversity.
• An inner motivation to embrace a highly diverse workplace community.
• An action-oriented plan on how to take an active role in creating an inclusive workplace and strive for progression.

This program is perfect for ALL. New, seasoned, senior leadership, everyone has room to grow, and everyone plays a role in creating an inclusive workplace.

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Conference Survival 2022: 6 Proven Strategies for Putting Powerful Draws on Stage

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1 Clock Hour | Domain B: Project Management

Your conference is only as good as your content. Your presenters provide the pull to attend, live engagement, and valuable takeaways that bring audiences back again and again. Recent research suggests only the conferences perceived as the highest quality and more worthwhile will continue to thrive as physical or hybrid events. What can you do to give every community member good reasons to attend your events?

You will learn...

• 6 proven strategies for identifying and recruiting the most qualified and marketable speakers
• The 7 kinds of content most attendees will travel to get
• 4 event design ideas to maximize understanding and impact

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Event Ecosystem: Your Secret to Mastering the New Event Landscape - Whitepaper Debrief 04.26.2022

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1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

A dramatic shift in the tools and skills that planners need for success has occurred in the last two years. Throughout an onslaught on new event formats (hello, virtual and hybrid), new technologies, process changes, building last-minute contingencies into event design, and now navigating a return to in-person events, planners have repeatedly risen to new challenges.

But as teams are stretched to their limits, as job roles expand and become more complex, the need is emerging for planners to have a new network of resources, expertise, and support. This event ecosystem can help fill skills and capabilities gaps and offers planning teams new avenues for successfully managing and executing their events.

Join Mike Dietrich and Julie Haddix from Cvent as they discuss how an event ecosystem can assist you in mastering the new event landscape. You’ll learn:

• Elements of an ecosystem (spoiler alert –it’s more than just tech)
• Tips for using an ecosystem to overcome gaps in skills or capabilities
• How Cvent’s ecosystem can enable your success

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