| 8:00am - 9:00am | Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Opening General Session: Think Like an Inventor: The Mindset & Motivation to spot Opportunities, Take Initiative and Embrace Change |
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Description“It’s not my problem.” “It’s not my job.” “I wouldn’t know where to start.” “I can’t.” “I won’t.” “I quit.” Imagine inventors saying these kinds of phrases. What if those inventors STOPPED thinking, creating and solving? Terrifying, right?! But this is exactly what’s happening in YOUR teams, organization and maybe even in your own mind every single day. Personal initiative will soar when you learn the secret to spotting any problem or opportunity waiting to be solved Increase that sense of ownership by understanding how invention is fun, easy and (almost always) free Inspire an unlimited supply of ideas and opportunities when you see the world through inventors’ eyes An audience that is eager to learn for the rest of the day and the rest of their lives
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| 10:30am - 11:00am | Morning Break with Exhibitors | |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm | Breakout Session 1A: Communicating without Words |
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DescriptionPeople have learned to trust their experiences in this world of visual and data overload, but only if you can create effective experiential environments. This approach to discovering and communicating what is really important about your brand story to designers of graphics, exhibits, florals, furniture, stages and more has been honed over the years by creatives and now you can put it to work for you. Key Take Aways: - Finding the most important thing to communicate without words about your event.
- Communicating with left and right brained people.
- How to touch guests hearts with all the elements of your event.
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| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Breakout Session 1B: Talking the C Suite Lingo |
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DescriptionThe struggles of a meeting professional (planner & supplier) include project management.You will be called upon to make various presentations to your Executive Team.Not all presentations are created equal. Speaking and presentations to executives is different than communicating meeting information to peers. Key Take Aways: - Learn to focus on results and not the process.
- Anticipate the questions to weave the solutions into your presentation.
- Infuse your personality into your presentation guaranteeing uniqueness and interactivity
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| 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM | Breakout Session 1C: Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Successful Leadership |
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DescriptionLong after others have quit, leaders keep plugging on, until the job gets done. They build that mental toughness, to work through the knots, to lift others, and to leave people, places, and jobs, better than they found them. Leadership is less about position, more about disposition. Look at your staff, your organization, or your nonprofit. Do you need more dividers or do you need more connectors? Do you need more people to destroy or boost employee morale? Leaders connect, and boost others. They build bridges and strong partnerships. Their majestic online and offline presence create positive ripple effects that lifts the image of your organization. They practice healthy emotional intelligence and demonstrate excellent people skills. Leaders have an unwavering focus, from start to finish. Key Take Aways: - How to build effective teams and get everyone on the same page
- How to practice emotional intelligence as a leader
- How to turn problems into opportunities and handle crisis situations effectively
- How to engage in thoughtful disagreement and to get everyone to work together, even though everyone may not agree with each other
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| 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM | Breakout Session 1D: Little Big Bangs for Planners |
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| 12:00pm - 1:45pm | Lunch with Keynote |
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| 1:45pm - 2:10pm | Dessert with Exhibitors | |
| 2:15pm - 3:15pm | Breakout Session 2A: Shhhhh! The Meeting Professional's Secret Weapon - Improv! |
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DescriptionWhat if you could create more engaging meetings, deal better with last-minute changes, and generate more innovative ideas without spending a dime? Surprisingly, the techniques improv comedians use can equip you do this and more. Much more. All it takes is a simple shift in mindset and replacing two words in your vocabulary. Come to this cutting-edge program to find out what these words are. This session delivers practical, evidence-based tips served up in an interactive format to help you unlock and embrace the natural gifts you already possess as a meeting professional. By attending this program, you’ll learn how to help your colleagues and partners feel more valued and included. And when they do, they’ll be more invested and loyal to you and your goals. Key Take Aways: - Think better on your feet.
- Be more resilient and improve your ability to deal with change.
- Increase collaboration among your team, vendors, and partners.
- Come up with better ideas more often.
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm | Breakout Session 2B: #Money: Sponsorship in the Age of New Social Media Tools |
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DescriptionWhether you’re planning a conference, trade show, or event, there’s a good chance that, in order to be profitable, you’ll have to get sponsors. Your sponsors are your customers and it’s important to make sure you’re selling them the best products. In 2020, social media marketing is valuable because it allows companies to directly engage with their customers, build brand presence, and ultimately sell more products. Learn what options you have to develop killer social media sponsorship packages that mutually benefit both your sponsors and your organization. Now, more than ever before, social media enables core business objectives and provides so many different metrics and new data streams on customers and their behavior. With the rise in new social media features like Instagram Stories and new live streaming capabilities, authenticity and shareability have new clout. Learn how to create innovative sponsorships that will appeal to your attendees and show an increase in ROI to your sponsors. Key Take Aways: - Identify new ideas for hashtag use, how to create one and how to use it.
- Discover how to price social media sponsorship packages.
- Explain how social media analytics can help you achieve your sponsor’s and your company’s business goals.
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm | Breakout Session 2C: Relational Communications |
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DescriptionThis breakout session is an interactive experience focused on both interpersonal and intrapersonal Communication. Guests will gain a greater understanding of how body language, non-verbals, verbals, intention cues and psychology influence and shape human behavior. These soft skills are invaluable. Key Take Aways: - Identify body-language cues for particular behavior
- Understand psychological influences of behavior
- Gain insights to human behavior cues to assist in business relationships
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm | Breakout Session 2D: | |
| 3:15pm - 3:45pm | Afternoon Break | |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm | Breakout Session 3A: Creating Wellbeing in Events |
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DescriptionEveryone seems to be talking about adding mindfulness, wellness and wellbeing to their events. This session will define what this means and identify why it’s important to consider how to positively impact your participants’ well being. Key Take Aways: - Ideas on how to fuel and power your guests
- How to reduce anxiety and make them feel emotionally centered for your meetings.
- How to implement positive impact at meeting for participants’ well being.
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| 3:45pm - 4:45pm | Breakout Session 3B: Using Big Data to Tell a Better Story |
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DescriptionWith all of the emerging technologies, we are inundated with so much data at our events. But, do you really have time to sift through it all? This session will focus on how we can make sense of big data to understand exactly how and what is impacting our events. In this session, you will learn how to use your data to tell a better story. We’re talking everything from online registration and marketing, to on-site logistics, attendee demographics, AI for conversations, on-site tracking and interest pools. We will review all of these topics in greater detail, and learn how we can aggregate all of this data together to paint a bigger picture of your event, and share it with your stakeholders, attendees, and exhibitors. Key Take Aways: - Ensure the right data is there to help answer questions
- How do you consume all the data from various sources of event tech?
- How to apply this for your marketing, finance and operations group.
- Tools that can help you consolidate data.
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| 3:45pm - 4:45pm | Breakout Session 3C: Getting Hotels to say "YES!" to Your Business |
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DescriptionA behind the scenes look at how hotels make selling decisions. This session will help guide planners as to how to create more attractive RFPs and help better position their business in a thriving seller’s market. We will provide new understandings of business review, concessions, meeting space, and address the most common misconceptions plaguing planners today. We will also dig deep and take a look at where the market is headed and how things will change when the market shifts, and oh yes, it is already shifting… Key Take Aways: - Better understanding how hotels make selling decisions
- Strategic ways to craft RFPs to elicit better proposals
- Understand what does and doesn’t influence a hotel proposal
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| 3:45pm - 4:45pm | Breakout Session 3D: | |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Closing General Session: Rock Your Pitch: Storytelling with Numbers |
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DescriptionYou have to pitch for money for your business or project. You have to tell your boss you deserve a raise. You have to explain why your project is going to be successful. In order to get to X (numbers), you’ve got to explain Y (why). This talk speaks to the humans who believe numbers tell the story AND to the humans who believe stories tell the numbers. Looking at both sides to ensure everyone gets the information they need, you’ll be able to craft a presentation from the story the numbers tell in a succinct, simple, and manageable way. You’ll walk away with things you can change immediately in your current presentation or just what you needed to create the one that’s in your head. You’ve got to make your pitch by making an impact. In this keynote, you’ll start: - finding out how the numbers can tell a story
- getting tips on how to tell the story without boring people
- finding ways to get your audience to feel something
- seeing how the story AND the numbers make the impact
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| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Closing Reception with Exhibitors | |
