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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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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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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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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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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1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

The truth to creating an extraordinary experience and enhancing a sustainable platform for higher retention of members comes down to not "what you do" but "why you do what you do" from shared or similar core values. It's what is compelling to them and not what makes your meeting unique.

During this session...

• Attendees will be able to implement processes to retain current members and attract more people to their functions based on similar values.
• Attendees will know how to be more compelling and influential to others as an authority in your segment.
• Attendees will learn how to create a value statement that can be part of any marketing or service strategy that will lead to more referrals and higher retention of members.

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1.5 Clock Hours | Domain B: Project Management

For our first 2022 MPI MD Town Hall (part 2 of our 4-part series) we are pleased to present iconic influencers, representing the major meeting healthcare conferences who will discuss the impact of the pandemic on their annual conferences and share what we can expect (including formats) for 2022.

Join these influencers representing Pharma Forum, World Congress (now Thinc360), Exl Events (now Momentum Events), The National Tradeshow Alliance, the International Pharmaceutical Congress Advisory Association (IPCAA), and MPI MD.

This will be an open, candid session where your challenges and questions come first. Panelists want to hear what medical meeting professionals are looking to gain at these conferences. MPI MD will also share the results of a recent survey submitted to medical planners and suppliers.

During this session, you will...

• Learn, from top industry icons how they are adjusting to medical conference attendance and how they are shifting and adapting to medical meeting changes.
• Share your questions and input with conference content decision-makers.
• What makes you want to attend specific conferences?
• Discover what is trending in medical meetings.

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Global Meetings Industry Day: Virtual

April 7, 2022 6 a.m. – April 7, 2022 6 p.m.

12 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning

Join MPI for its fifth annual, industry-leading Global Meetings Industry Day: Virtual experience. This live, 12-hour broadcast features education and activities from all over the world as the meeting industry comes together to celebrate, commemorate and honor the millions of global events that impact the lives of billions of people every year.

In 2022, we have special cause to celebrate: the renewal and rebirth of our sector, the renaissance of in-person experiences and—of course—MPI's 50th birthday. Given the global opportunities brought on by the technological revolution and innovation within the event world, take this opportunity to CELEBRATE the wonders the future holds for bringing people together in meaningful ways with thousands of your industry friends and colleagues.

GMID: Virtual is the perfect event to rally together—because when we meet, we change the world.

You can find the full agenda in the documents section of this page.

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) is an international day of advocacy that showcases the undeniable value that business meetings, trade shows, incentive travel, exhibitions, conferences and conventions bring to people, businesses and communities. GMID was created and supported by Meetings Mean Business, and many industry organizations, associations, partners and supporters host events, summits and experiences on this day to celebrate the economic, business and social value and impact of the events sector.

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1 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management

The meeting and event industry is restarting, and meeting professionals are now putting forth RFP’s, site inspections, and organizing current and future events. How are you incorporating risk mitigation into the services you provide?
The MPI Academy has dedicated this one-hour presentation to refreshing your meeting risk mitigation skill set. This presentation will cover:

• Incorporating a “Risk-Aware Culture” into your organization.
• Building risk mitigation into the planning process.
• Developing risk mitigation “partners” and “resources” into meetings and events.
• Using “Risk-Aware” thinking to stand out from your competition (and to better serve your clients).
• Meeting and event risk training.

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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. This month's focus will be in recognition of Women's History Month. Our focus will be identifying obstacles women face in their path to leadership and how they were able to overcome them. The hospitality industry has an 85% representation of women overall in its workforce, however, the number of women in leadership roles is severely disproportionate by comparison.

During this session, you will...

• Analyze ways in which societal institutions and power structures impact women’s leadership opportunities and success.
• Be able to identify meaningful intersections between gender and other social and cultural identities.
• Be able to identify equity strategies that create an inclusive environment building opportunities for more women in leadership.

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