While large cities may be unparalleled destinations for large-scale events, many smaller cities are expanding their capacities and offering options suitable for the highest-quality events. They offer lower costs, greater ease in getting around, unique venues and experiences, hands-on community support and sustainability. In a world where many travelers are looking for a more personalized and unique experience, their lack of scale is often part of their charm for organizers and attendees. Tap into MPI’s resources on the 3T advantage to start your journey.
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Data is the cornerstone of modern meeting planning. Yet, many meeting professionals still face challenges gathering, using and getting the most out of the data they collect. Enter artificial intelligence: A powerful tool for meeting professionals precisely because of its ability to parse and categorize large amounts of raw data. Discover how AI enhances and speeds up your understanding of data and, by extension, drives faster decision-making and helps you achieve and exceed your meeting goals. Find your path forward in an evolving data landscape with artificial intelligence.
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Professional meetings and events contribute to the world’s massive food waste problem. As companies and organizations adopt 2050 Net Zero climate goals and as consumers increasingly prioritize sustainability, meeting professionals are seeking to make real, tangible changes to minimize and potentially eliminate food waste industry-wide. Discover next practices in food waste prevention from expert conversations at the 2024 MPI Foundation Thought Leadership Summit in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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People who are neurodivergent make up 20% of the global population (but estimates may be closer to 30% to 40% due to challenges with receiving diagnoses, according to The Neu Project). Not only do neurodivergent people tend to find it harder to participate in events due to sensory overload, crowds, noise and lighting, they are also less likely to go altogether because of the stress they anticipate it will cause them. Dive into the best practices discussed during MPI's 2024 Thought Leaders Summit in Indianapolis.
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As meeting professionals increasingly seek innovative ways to foster meaningful connections among people who share common interests, challenges and goals, they are questioning the impact of traditional formats that typically appear on educational and networking agendas. MPI in partnership with Radisson Hotels has developed “Meetings Unbound,” a catalogue of new formats from future-looking practitioners in event and experience design. Use the following meeting-prof tested and proven unique experiences as springboards for your own creative process. Download the white paper! Meetings Unbound
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External communities play a crucial role in fostering belonging, collaboration and active participation, which drive business growth and success in the process. And people are drawn to communities that fulfill their needs for support, learning and professional growth. They seek connections with like-minded individuals who share their goals and interests. Find out how these communities are not only a source of valuable insights and market research but also a means of co-creating solutions, fostering brand advocacy and driving customer loyalty and retention.
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AI has the potential to increase event professional’s capacity for creativity, curiosity, data analysis and problem-solving while automating tasks and increasing speed to market for new products, events and services. The benefits extended beyond efficiency to include revenue generation and the ability to speak the language of C-suite executives. Discover the lessons learned, and best practices created, from the conclave of meeting industry leaders and subject matter experts at MPI's 2023 Thought Leaders Summit in Buffalo, New York.
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A budget is a business tool—a working document that communicates and controls income and expenses throughout your event planning process.
Featuring more than 250 events-related expenses, this robust budget template and toolkit is your go-to resource for the operational revenues and expenditures you need to execute meetings and events. With working formulas, this Excel-formatted document features costs from onsite F&B to digital production and everything in-between.
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Once relegated to the bottom of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, meeting professionals no longer think of food and beverage functions as simply fulfilling physiological needs. Nearly 61 percent say it is one of the most important factors in selecting a facility. With F&B playing such a leading role, they are paying particular attention to five key touchpoints of an attendee’s experience: registration, arrival, meals, breaks and departure. Here is a look at how food and beverage trends are reshaping every aspect of meeting and event delivery.
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By prioritizing attendees’ wellness and mental health, many meeting professionals are finding that events can be critical to a person's overarching wellbeing. Forward-facing professionals are looking beyond a commoditized approach to wellness and gravitating to an integrative approach, where wellness and mental health are baked into every aspect of a gathering. Discover how wellness should play a critcial role in the design of meaningful experiences for participants, and how events could offer a key to overarching wellbeing for individuals.
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This white paper lays out actionable takeaways on creating meaningful work environments that attract and retain top talent as delineated by meeting industry leaders during the 2022 Thought Leaders Summit in Mobile, Alabama. These best practices showcase how organizations can make the meeting and event industry more attractive, elevate the industry’s brand and create work environments that foster belonging to both attract and retain talent.
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Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) is evolving. Expanding from a main emphasis on risk mitigation and cost containment, it has transitioned into a critical new pathway via which meeting professionals assist organizations in achieving sustainability and supplier diversity goals with modified M&E policies and advanced supplier sourcing strategies. This white paper dives into the exciting, new meeting and event ecosystem and how executive-level meeting professionals are rethinking how they design and operate Total Event Programs or Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) programs.
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From ingredients and portion sizes to waste reduction and service ware, review the choices you make as part of the strategy, design and execution of event F&B functions through the lens of sustainability, all based on MPI's new whitepaper, "Sustainable F&B: Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Meals," developed with support from Virginia Beach.
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Adding online components to events expand audiences globally, introduce new and engaging formats, generate content for marketing and attendee on-demand experiences and give voice to those who might be reluctant, or unable, to attend in person. Discover the new era of hybrid events, where they sit on the spectrum of options available to meeting professionals, and how you can identify ways in which hybird can play into the tools you use to drive business results for your organization and behavior change and satisfaction for your attendees and stakeholders.
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