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Banquets and Catering: An Insider’s Approach to Food and Beverage

Connect Your Meetings

Many times, a convention’s catering expenses can be more than half of the master account, and planners frequently do not attempt to negotiate what can be a huge expense. You’ll learn how to negotiate catering pricing, service charges and fees to deliver immediate savings to your company or organization.

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Smart Women 2017: Innovators

SmartMeetings

What I love about my job: I love designing tools to help people collaborate at meetings. Every week I talk to smart people with extensive meeting-planning and facilitation experience who share their perspectives and insights. Company or organization: HelmsBriscoe in Jacksonville, Florida. Heather Reid. Pauline White.

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Interviews with Planners - Greg Jenkins

Eventinterface

Jenkins is also a previous nominee as Samaritan of the Year and a two-time nominee as Event Planner of the Year by Event Solutions Magazine, an international magazine serving the event and meeting planning industry. One function that stands out was an event staged for a client in Palm Beach, Florida. In closing.

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Smart Women 2017 – Innovators

SmartMeetings

What I love about my job: I love designing tools to help people collaborate at meetings. Every week I talk to smart people with extensive meeting-planning and facilitation experience who share their perspectives and insights. Company or organization: HelmsBriscoe in Jacksonville, Florida. Heather Reid. Pauline White.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We Does a planner’s attitude make a difference when negotiating with hotels?”

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