| 7:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration |
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| 7:50 AM - 8:50 AM |
CMP Breakfast- Invitation Only |
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Description
Sponsored by
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| 9:05 AM - 10:20 AM |
Opening Session: The End of Meetings?? Technology & the Hospitality Professional |
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Description
Most experts believe that the pandemic increased the rate of technological change by 5 – 10 years. And it’s clear to many that the rate of tech advancement will become even more frenetic during this decade. So how will that impact meetings and conventions? While it is likely that meetings will continue to be essential business tools, it’s also almost certain that the technological impact on the industry will radically change how they are planned and executed. Augmented and virtual reality, the metaverse, and artificial intelligence are among just some of the drivers that will continue to push forward this speed of change for planners, suppliers and attendees alike. One thing is certain. Change is the new normal for the industry.
Learner Objectives:
– Identify the 5 most critical tech tools that are impacting meeting planning and supporting the hospitality industry.
– Use tools such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality to support their event design and implementation.
– Recognize how new and developing technologies will impact and change the future of the hospitality industry.
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| 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM |
Break I |
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Description
Expo
Micro-session: Benefits for Joining MPI / What it takes to be on the MPI Potomac Chapter Board Member
Meet Up: Emerging Professionals
Human Story
Membership and Mentorship tables
Sponsored by
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| 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Concurrent Session I
Breakout Track 1: Event Technology/Innovation
Deep Dive on Event Technology |
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| 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Concurrent Session I
Breakout Track 2: Emerging Professionals
First Impressions and Emerging Professionals: Set Yourself Up Authentically for Success |
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Description
First impressions are paramount in establishing yourself successfully as a new professional. First impressions tell your story, whether it is the one you wish to tell or not. Within 7 seconds of meeting someone, we shape our opinions, biases and make assumptions based upon what we see and hear.
Learn tips to master your 7 seconds and beyond with Kristin Shoop, Certified Image Consultant. We will explore the Yin/Yang elements of the 6 Personalities of Style and how they grow confidence to new and sustainable levels. That newly found confidence will ensure your 7 seconds are consistently successful.
Learner Objectives:
– Participants will do interactive exercises to learn the DNA of First Impressions: nonverbal messaging and the importance of sending the correct message the first time
– Participants will learn the basic Yin/Yang components of the 6 Personalities of Style and where they might relate along the continuum.
– Participants will experiment with the 6 Personalities of Style using props and gauge their confidence levels before and after the session.
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| 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Concurrent Session I
Breakout Track 3: Event Design
LISTEN TO ME: How to Foster and Maintain Attendee Connections When Distractions are Everywhere. |
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Description
Over the past decade, digital clutter has infiltrated our lives; emails, social media, and other tasks diverting our attention on a consistent basis. Whether in-person, hybrid or on-line, meeting organizers are constantly fighting to maintain attendee focus from other digital distractions pulling at their attention. In this session, I will offer ways to better engage your virtual and live meeting audience. Learn how to use your current e-learning systems (Zoom, Go-to-Webinar, Teams etc.) as well as in-person engagement practices to ensure that your attendees are hanging on your every word even when distractions are calling them away. Use basic concepts of andragogy to filter how adults learn and better retain information. Real-life examples of how similar information presented differently will have differing effects on its learners.
Learner Objectives:
– Learn virtual and in person strategies keep attendees engaged
– Learn strategies to bring back disengaged participants
– Understand basics of andragogy and how adults learn differently
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| 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Concurrent Session I
Breakout Track 4: On the Horizon
No Need for a Crystal Ball - Meetings Outlook by MPI – The Meetings Industry Forecast |
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Description
Have you always wished you could predict the future? Well now you can. Join us for a look into the future with Meeting Professionals International Meetings Outlook. This meeting industry forecast educates you on the status of the meetings industry with the most up to date information from Meeting Professionals International’s Meetings Outlook quarterly report. From job vacancy challenges, business projections, attendance forecasts to the current market landscape, gain insight to guide your organizations to success in the coming future.
Learner Objectives:
– Acquire knowledge of the future state of the meetings industry
– Learn quantifiable data based on historical trends and professionally informed projections regarding employment, event attendance, and business conditions.
– Understand how to navigate in the current meetings landscape in the scope of risk management and strategic planning.
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| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM |
Transition |
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| 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM |
Lunch Session: What's Going On Hospitality Industry? |
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Description
What is really going on in the hospitality industry? The meeting planning environment has changed a lot over the last few years. We experienced and, in some regards, are still experiencing a pandemic. Businesses like Air BnB are positioning themselves and continually impacting event housing. Hotel leisure numbers and rates have had major impact on group rates. The supply chain became volatile from labor shortages to escalating food and beverage costs. Michael Dominguez, a leading expert in the industry, will take the audience on a journey of current trends and how they will impact meeting design and performance in the coming years. He will engage with the audience to evaluate the temperature of how they are feeling the impact of the current landscape and ways they have learned to navigate toward success.
Learning Objectives:
– Learn how the hospitality industry is changing and how the change is impacting the performance of meetings.
– Gain statically supported knowledge of current industry trends and the impact on the industry.
– Learn about things to consider to be successful given the current industry landscape.
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| 1:15 PM - 1:25 PM |
Transition |
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| 1:25 PM - 2:25 PM |
Concurrent Session II
Breakout Track 1: Event Technology/Innovation
Low Price…High Tech Build Your Own Conference App |
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Description
The low code movement is upon us. What does that mean to our industry? It means that much of tech development and ideating is now in our hands. Literally. What used to cost over $10K to outsource, building a conference app, can now be accomplished using tools you already know (and have), and without a stitch of coding knowledge required.
Too hard to believe? Come to this session (and bring your computer, if you want to try it out for yourself).
Learner Objectives:
– Identify at least 4 freemium services that can enable the meeting professional to design and implement their own mobile application
– Learn the functionality within the Glide operating system and see how you can build an app in real time
– Understand and discuss other applications for planners and suppliers to use this technology
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| 1:25 PM - 2:25 PM |
Concurrent Session II
Breakout Track 2: Emerging Professionals
The Conscious Planner |
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Description
In this session, we will focus on 3 main topics as the attendees answer their inner questions:
1. Lifetime Self Mastery
– Is this a job or a calling?
– In what ways are you trading perks + points for purpose and impact?
– How is not giving your full potential actually hurting you?
2. Reason on Earth & Impact
– Are you letting Buy your compliance – 24/7 access?
– How does The Law of Reciprocity affect what you do? You give/sacrifice something to get something.
– What does fulfillment mean to you?
– What is being available [24/7] actually costing you?
– Where are you sacrificing?
3. Being the experiment of the Universe – the consciousness of all beings
– How can you start living as an experiment?
– How does your body work? How is your body working for you?
– In what ways is it working? In what ways could it be working even better?
– If you worked for you… what would you say about the experience?
– How is your mind working for you?
Learner Objectives:
– Discover the more profound impact they can make as a planner so that they can live a more purposeful life.
– Actionable communication skills and energetic tools that they can use to increase their self-worth
– Attain the knowledge of their emotions, mind & body so that they can create a stress-free environment in their daily life.
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| 1:25 PM - 2:25 PM |
Concurrent Session II
Breakout Track 3: Event Design
Contract Strategies for the Win-Win |
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Description
Contract negotiations don’t need to be a battle. The understanding of the “why” behind the “no” by each party can open conversations. Through these transparencies the win-win can be accomplished. Hear from accomplished planner and supplier as they share real-life experiences when executing contracts and best ways for each party to communicate their respective needs.
Learner Outcomes:
– Recognizing the needs of each party when planners and suppliers come to the contract negotiating table.
– Best practices on what to ask for in your contracts from the perspective of both parties involved.
– Understanding of financial needs from both parties to execute meetings/events.
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| 1:25 PM - 2:25 PM |
Concurrent Session II
Breakout Track 4: On the Horizon
Bridging the Gap - Planning & Curating Meaningful Experiences with Socially Responsible Partnerships |
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With the resurgence of in-person meetings “post-COVID”, it’s time to re-evaluate how meetings and events are delivering value to stakeholders. In this session, planners and suppliers will delve deeper into the expectations & opportunities to leverage socially responsible partnerships and planning practices that align core values with impactful experiences to help clients: re-build membership and attendance, address DEI priorities, and create awareness around the impact their events have on our communities.
Learner Objectives:
– Planners will learn more about the benefits of working with CVB/DMO counterparts to meet and exceed event objectives by tapping into the host destination’s social responsibility initiatives, resources and partnerships
– Planners and suppliers will learn how to identify beneficial partnerships that align with their client’s organizational values like DEI and sustainability
– Planners and suppliers will leave with actionable steps to create a strategy for curating a memorable experience that both enhances & compliments the overall program
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| 2:25 PM - 2:55 PM |
Break II |
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Description
Expo
Micro-session: What it takes to be a CMP
Meet Up: Suppliers
Human Story
Membership and Mentorship tables
Sponsored by
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| 2:55 PM - 3:55 PM |
Concurrent Session III
Breakout Track 1: Event Technology/Innovation
How AI and ChatGPT Affects Our Industry |
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Description
AI and ChatGPT is transforming many business and personal activities and expect to do so to our industry. While we know its usefulness and easy to use, how AI can transform our industry is an immediate question to think about and reflect to our profession. Professors of event technology and computer science engineering will share current research and an opportunity to collaborate on the topic with practitioners’ languages in mind.
Learner Objectives:
– Learn how AI can streamline event planning phases so to build up a Computer Integrated Event Management (CIEM).
– Learn about cases of fairness, bias, and ethical problems in AI and how to prevent it.
– How to access university research centers/faculty in technology related collaborations
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| 2:55 PM - 3:55 PM |
Concurrent Session III
Breakout Track 2: Emerging Professionals
Tips for Advancing Your Career and Maintaining the Flexibility You Desire |
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Description
What is going on in this crazy DMV job market? What do you need to do TODAY to develop professionally while also achieving/maintaining the flexibility you desire? In this session, a local recruiter who has worked with thousands a job seekers and employers alike will give you job market insights as well as lots of practical job search tips for showing your value in resumes, interviews, and networking. You will leave this info-packed session energized, motivated, and confident to develop professionally.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– How to get clear on your value and communicate it.
– Effective networking strategies that will result in deeper professional relationships and lead to opportunities.
– How to make networking a natural part of what you do, not just for the purpose of finding a job.
– Tips for finding, negotiating, and maintaining flexibility.
– Possible career paths for meeting planning professionals and how to evaluate which ones might be best for you
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| 2:55 PM - 3:55 PM |
Concurrent Session III
Breakout Track 3: Event Design
Engaging Your First-Time Attendees |
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Description
Do the first-time attendees at your meeting get a ribbon and a reception? Are they then expected to fall in love with your meeting and come back year after year? Jillian Cardinal says, “Networking is more than a cocktail and a nametag.” So let us get engaged and talk about ways our groups can better cater to this often-forgotten (and very valuable) group.
Learner Objectives:
– Distinguish why first-time attendees are a valuable group
– Examine programs that engage first-time attendees at meetings
– Discuss new engagement ideas that can be applied to future events
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| 2:55 PM - 3:55 PM |
Concurrent Session III
Breakout Track 4: On the Horizon
Green is More Than the New Black |
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Description
The event industry and its professionals are committing more than ever to eco-friendly initiatives. Whether the decision is based is corporate commitments to sustainability or attendee expectations, producing truly sustainable events that still bring the “wow factor” takes thoughtful consideration in preparation and execution.
Lowering the carbon footprint of a notoriously unsustainable industry is no small feat, and it often impacts every part of the decision-making process. Many brands struggle to incorporate green initiatives due to a lack of resources and guidance. Some brands may even feel the pressure to pull off a 100% green event, but the real difference comes in attainable goals that impact big.
In this session, our speaker will share realistic, creative ways to implement sustainable practices in all areas of event production to help solidify brands’ commitments to climate action without cutting corners on design and attendee experience.
Learner Objectives
– Become inspired to embark on making meetings more sustainable while curating a boutique experience
– Discover ways to communicate the importance of having sustainable meetings and events to stakeholders and partners
– Learn how to control costs while implementing green strategies
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| 3:55 PM - 4:25 PM |
Break III |
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Expo
Micro-session: Tech Tour of Cvent Registration
Meet Up: Planners
Human Story
Tech Corner
Membership and Mentorship tables
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| 4:25 PM - 5:40 PM |
C-Suite Closing Session: Embrace the Present and Jumpstart 2024 |
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In our current environment, we must acknowledge the importance of the intersection of creative conceptualization, and innovative thought and technologies with the current meeting planning landscape. How will creative new ways of doing things and the use of new technologies impact the industry and keep people wanting to convene in ways that they had not done before? This panel of experts will discuss the connections between the creative design, innovative technologies, industry trends, and changes in the meeting planning landscape from the planner and supplier perspectives.
Learning Objectives:
– Learn to navigate in the current meeting environment using creativity, innovation, and technology.
– Learn about industry developments to watch to help the attendee be successful given current trends.
– Gain an understanding of how to prepare now for a successful next year.
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| 5:40 PM - 7:00 PM |
Reception |
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