MPI is the meeting and event industry’s home for education, enabling meeting professionals around the world in their quest to host meetings that matter for communities, organizations, businesses, NGOs and governments. The MPI Academy has curated packaged content to help you stay up-to-date on what industry experts are saying related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
MPI members, log in and access all of the content free of charge. Instead of purchasing webinars for $9.99 each, our non-member community can buy this education package at a discounted rate.
Science not stopped by Coronavirus: How a large scientific meeting successfully pivoted to virtual in record time
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Identification: 10022020
1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
When COVID-19 shut down The Allied Genetics Conference, the organizers decided to go virtual and make it free to attend. Registration tripled, the conference was swamped by positive tweets, and recorded session views overwhelmed all expectations. Learn about how ATIV software helped this conference flip their format—in a matter of weeks—to fully online, allowing more than 1,000 scientists to present their research in more than 100 oral presentations and poster Q&A sessions.
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1. Learn technologies and strategies to convert a scientific meeting into a virtual event
2. Re-imagine poster sessions in a virtual environment
3. Explore scientific meeting engagement options
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Ready, Set, Meet: Coronavirus Event Safety Strategies
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Identification: 09152020
1 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management + Domain G: Meeting Design
The Events Industry Council recently released new guidelines to help organizations make decisions on when and how to begin hosting gatherings—and strategies and tactics for safe meetings have been released from any number of organizations, hotel brands and industry associations. Discover highlights from these reports that can help guide your guidance with clients and your conversation with potential meeting partners and facilities. What questions should you be asking of both to ensure you are following duty of care best practices for a safe-as-it-can-be event? Learn how other organizations are slowly bringing back the business of meetings.
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Coronavirus Dialogue Series: Claim Your Seat at the Table: Why and How to Impact your Association’s Virtual Event Strategy
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Identification: 08182020
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
As virtual and hybrid events become the “new abnormal” for the association community, the role and functions of meeting professionals is changing at a rapid pace. Changing more slowly is the perception of the role that planners and professionals can – and should – play as meetings and events go from in-person to virtual. Some associations have placed virtual events squarely in the marketing department, others have determined they remain with the meeting planners, and many are still navigating how best to address this important transition. This session will highlight the reasons it is important for association planners to have a “seat at the table” in developing virtual event strategy and offer tips for how to claim your seat in your organization.
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Coronavirus Dialogue Series: Pandemic Adaptation & Planning via Neuroscience for Meeting Planners
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Identification: 08072020
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
In this engaging, interactive, and entertaining presentation, you as a meeting planner will dramatically improve your adaptation and planning for the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic using cutting-edge neuroscience and behavioral economics-based strategies. Research shows that our gut reaction is to adapt to and plan for best-case scenarios and to focus on short-term threats, instead of taking a realistic and long-term perspective on slow-moving disasters such as the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Neuroscience reveals that instead of such hopefulness, you will be better off by planning for the worst, while hoping for the best, since the best-case scenario is the end of the pandemic by 2022, but the worst-case scenarios take the pandemic into 2025 and beyond. You need to protect yourself and those you serve by shifting your meeting planning to adapt to the ongoing major disruption of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. You also need to make an effective long-term plan to cope with the consequences of this pandemic going forward, as well as the post-pandemic transition. This presentation will offer you neuroscience and behavioral economics-based strategies to navigate successfully the disruptions caused by the pandemic into the post-pandemic world, ensuring that you as a meeting planner not only survive but thrive in the new abnormal.
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Coronavirus Dialogue Series Webinar: Best Practices in Hotel Re-openings Post COVID-19
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1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Join us for an MPI-moderated conversation with Biran Patel, Vice Chairman of the Asian American Hotel Owner Association, on how hoteliers are creating best practices for reopening and forecasting for the next 12 months. In this session, we will take a look at what associations and companies have been sharing with hoteliers in terms of their event sizes and needs. You will also have the ability to ask your questions regarding what the association is doing to assist hoteliers.
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Coronavirus Dialogue Series: A New Path Forward for Sustainable Events
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Identification: 07212020
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
What will the “new normal” look like for event sustainability when the COVID-19 pandemic has finally ended? Are the days of buffets and bulk condiments long gone? Join us as we discuss strategies and options for implementing sustainable practices into your events that save money and resources, while still considering our environmental impact. While the future of our industry remains uncertain, there’s no doubt that as event professionals we have an incredible opportunity to work smarter and better than we did before. Sustainability is just the vessel we need to propel us toward a brighter, more resilient future.
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Coronavirus Dialogue Series: Budgeting for Uncertainty
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Identification: 07172020
1 Clock Hour | Domain D: Financial Management
We’re in unchartered territories and not only will our budgets look different moving forward, our budgeting processes likely will as well. You may be asked to start your budgeting process earlier and may be required to offer a more data driven approach to prove the value of your meetings to your organization’s business mission and balance sheet. In this session we’ll highlight three key concepts to help you prepare for the upcoming budgeting process.
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Coronavirus Dialogue Series: MeetSAFE
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Identification: 07152020
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Learn about how the meeting environment will shift into a new way of gathering. Understand 4 pillars – Meeting type, Meeting layout and Flow, Technology Considerations, and Cleanliness. How can you take these new ideas and still create an engaging meeting with great outcomes.
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Coronavirus Dialogue Series: Build a Sponsorship Strategy Focused on Monetizing Your In-Person & Digital Events
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Identification: 06302020
1 Clock Hour | Domain I: Marketing
This webinar will explore how to create a sponsorship strategy that will generate revenue through sponsorships, partnership and other sales opportunities through in-person & digital events. Learn best practices and innovative ideas on how to maximize your sponsorship dollars to deliver an amazing event, whether it be in-person or digital. We will share numerous sponsorship examples that you can incorporate.
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Identification: 06112020
1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
Now is the time to make sure your LinkedIn profile and engagement are stronger than ever. Empower yourself and learn how to connect to opportunity as your career journey unfolds. This webinar will cover:
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