An actual emergency just happened at your event: now what?

Jun 17, 2021 8:00am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 9:00am

Credits: None available.

We’ve all been so busy focused on COVID. Let’s not forget about the other potential emergencies we need to plan for at our events.

Join ECI for a simulated exercise that will walk through the logistical steps of your planning, preparedness, response, and recovery in handling an emergency situation.

We look forward to crowdsourcing and demonstrating a real live response.

We’ll start by grabbing your emergency plan – hopefully, you have one developed for this event!

  • Where is it?
  • Who has it?
  • Is it easy to navigate and follow?
  • Is your team ready to spring into action under an intense level of emergency-related stress?

Learner Outcomes

1. Learn how to stay calm in the midst of an emergency.

2. How to access the emergency situation at hand.

3. Respond with the best approach to the situation including the four phases of an emergency plan.

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WEC Today Show | June 17, 2021

Jun 17, 2021 8:00am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 9:15am

Credits: None available.

Join our WEC Today television show broadcast and gain exclusive access to interviews with conference keynotes and experts, breaking industry news and content you just can’t find anywhere else. This is your opportunity to ask questions and gain insight into the future of the meeting and event industry alongside your peers from all over the world. Last year, more than a thousand industry professionals joined us from 17 countries to learn the next practices and the latest industry fare. Once a day on Tuesday and Wednesday and twice on Thursday, our television broadcast is the place to find the news and segments you need—right when you need them.


Technology Showcase 6.17.21

Jun 17, 2021 8:00am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 9:15am

Credits: None available.

Heard Events Experiential Live and Virtual Event Solutions
HEARD has deep roots in the event production space and has assembled a talented team of professionals from various segments of the events industry to provide exceptional production, event, and destination services for planners and brand stakeholders who appreciate a partner that can provide creative guidance in all aspects of meetings, incentives, virtual, experiential and brand. Our broad knowledge of all things event and our willingness to go beyond the standard for our clients separates us from the crowd.

WorkerBee.TV: Your Event Video Checklist, Best Practices, and Trends
Traditionally, organizations have turned to Skype, Zoom, and other online streaming tools to record their virtual, hybrid, and on-demand event content; but the lack of flexibility and control can result in poor quality. In this presentation, WorkerBee.TV leans on their years of event experience and signature video technology to give you the tools to drastically reduce the resources, time, and effort needed to produce impactful video content before, during, and after your events. WorkerBee.TV solutions are designed to enhance engagement, improve event registration and monetization, and endure long after the event is over.

Making Sense of the Disarray: How Array has Changed Event Engagement & Data Collection
Your event tech should make your life easier and WOW your audience. Array provides content engagement technology, support services, and actionable data and insights. With nearly 20 years of experience at over 7,000 events, Array has unparalleled data and expertise to help make in-person, virtual, and hybrid events more meaningful. The unique interactive features in our software can increase audience engagement by 80%, and we help you improve with engagement analytics down to individual audience members.


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More Than a Planner - Why Meeting Professionals Need an Entrepreneurial Mindset

Jun 17, 2021 8:00am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 9:00am

Credits: None available.

For our industry more than almost any other, the past year has demonstrated that we’re all expendable. We’ve attempted for years to prove that “Meetings Mean Business” and that our roles have a strategic place at the table – and yet our profession is still regarded by many as nothing more than fulfilling a bunch of administrative tasks. It's time for us to dictate our own paths and stop relying on others to build our careers. We are more than planners! We are CFOs. We are Risk Analysts. We are Talent Managers. We are Directors of Marketing. We are Customer Relationship Specialists – and so much more. With all the knowledge, skills, and abilities we have, we could run the world. It’s time we start acting like it. In this mindset-shifting case study of how and why she started a new business while working a full-time event planning job, Deanna will lead you through exercises teaching you: Why it is crucial for all to have an entrepreneurial mindset, even if you don’t own a business. What it means to “think like an owner”. How to apply a business owner mindset to your personal career.

Learner Outcomes

1. Reframe your personal value proposition and identify your zone of genius skillset(s) that will create your "purpose path.

2. Develop a public personal brand, even when employed full-time, to open up a funnel of limitless opportunity.

3. Create a strategy to monetize your skillsets outside of your 9-5 job, without any conflict of interest.

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Featured Room | Your Blueprint for True Success

Jun 17, 2021 8:00am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 9:00am

Credits: None available.

After the earthquake of the past year where the foundation of our lives was shaken, what are your next steps forward? In addition to gaining knowledge of new guidelines and best practices in the meetings industry, true success requires the best “you” in order to advance optimally. In this presentation, you will discover Dr. E’s patented True Success Formula based on the latest neuroscience research and over 20 years of clinical practice. Entertaining and educational, you will leave this presentation with your own blueprint to make your future a great one.

Learner Outcomes

1. Examine the role of your internal world and how it impacts your success, often without your awareness.

2. Name the three pillars of the True Success Formula so that you may apply them in your life.

3. Formulate personalized action steps to create your optimal blueprint for True Success.

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Master Class: Leveraging Emotional Intelligence for Daily Success & Happiness

Jun 17, 2021 8:00am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 9:00am

Credits: None available.

Whether or not you realize it, your emotional intelligence plays a huge role in your everyday life. From the moment you wake up until the moment you close your eyes at night, your EQ helps you make decisions that can make or break your day. By leveraging emotional intelligence, you take control back over your emotions, your stress, your relationships, and your schedule to live a healthier, happier life. In this presentation, Rich will dive into the core elements of emotional intelligence that are used most frequently in your day-to-day activities and interactions. Through this discovery, he will arm you with the awareness of your EQ to help you succeed and grow every single day. 

Learner Outcomes

  • Identify your core emotional intelligence strengths and weaknesses
  • Discussing triggers and how to be aware of, and manage, your own. 
  • Leveraging key strategies to turn adversity into success, both professionally and personally. 
  • Understanding that your emotional intelligence can be strengthened through minor time investments each day

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General Session | The Superwomen of Vegas: Rising Up & A Great Place to Work for All

Jun 17, 2021 9:30am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 11:00am

Credits: None available.

General Session: The Superwomen of Vegas: Rising Up and Empowering Others

In the hyper-competitive hotel and destination marketing landscape of Las Vegas, these superwomen have risen to prominent and industry-leading roles—but it hasn’t been easy. How did they find their positions of strength while balancing the needs of their constituents, stakeholders, communities, and families? What strategies did they implement to overcome stereotypes and labels, earn the trust of their peers and grow their careers in one of the world’s fastest-paced cities and leading meetings marketplaces? Discover candid lessons about overcoming obstacles and learn their advice for anyone about how to differentiate yourself in a competitive landscape.

A Great Place to Work For All – Better for Business, Better for People, Better for the World

What does the latest data show about organizations that prioritize a culture of inclusiveness? Based on his book by the same name, Bush shares these details, plus how the Best Workplaces outperform their peers in the stock market and in revenue growth. Attendees hear Bush’s inspiring stories about how creating a more equitable work environment pays off. Attendees also walk away with a new “For All” Leadership Model to help drive personal performance. 

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Your New Normal: High Tech, Low Cost & DIY: $500 on demand LP

Jun 17, 2021 11:15am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 12:15pm

Credits: None available.

This decade’s greatest tech business challenge is the need to continue to find ways to integrate technology into their services while maintaining control of their bottom line. The creation of high-tech functionality, once the domain of talented yet pricey coding specialists, is becoming a critical part of the skill set of everyone, especially hospitality industry professionals. Having these skills helps you to assist your organization while improving your own skillset and marketability. From creating conference apps to voice interfaces and mixed reality, this session shows that the tools to create exceptional tech functionality reside in your hands, and within your budget.

Learner Outcomes

1. Identify and use over 5 high-tech tools that can be created and implemented at little to no cost.
2. Create an organization or conference app at no expense.
3. Understand the meaning and implications of the low-code/no-code tech movement for the meetings industry


Speech Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Star Trek

Jun 17, 2021 11:15am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 12:15pm

Credits: None available.

The world is changing more quickly than ever before and we only have to look at Star Trek to see where we might be going. Since 1967, Star Trek has been visionary related to technology and it's exciting to see how us as mere mortals have been able to use that vision to realize incredible technology advances. Some of the science as we know was valid. We now have talking computers, digital communicators (aka flip phones) and many more technologies we first saw in episodes of Star Trek.

As a huge fan of Star Trek, it's exciting to be involved in a world of speech and artificial intelligence technologies that would have made Gene Roddenberry proud. In this session, I will give you a real world synopsis of where we are and where we are going in the future related to speech technologies, artificial intelligence and my personal favorite, the universal translator. Imagine being able to have instant communication, with any person, in any language, in any medium. It's a shared dream among people around the world and the technology is catching up to the dream.

Learner Outcomes
1. You will learn how speech technologies work so you have the tools to have conversations with technology providers of potential solutions.
2. You will learn how the universal translator of the Star Trek world is much closer than many have imagined.
3. You will learn how to apply speech and language solutions to grow events, grow revenues and provide an enhanced customer experience using these technologies.

What's Next for Meeting Planners & the Speakers They Book

Jun 17, 2021 11:15am ‐ Jun 17, 2021 1:15pm

Credits: None available.

A Fireside chat with a Senior Meeting Planner & a veteran speaker. Informal discussion will be Moderated by Jeff Bigelow, Senior Partner at Speak, Inc. who has 25 years experience in the industry. Discussion will take a brief look back at the previous year but, more importantly, focus on meeting planners' & speakers' perspectives on what lies ahead for our industry. Live Q&A will also be a part of this exciting session.