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How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022

Smart Meetings

MPI Minneapolis will be meeting in person at Delta Hotels Minneapolis from 1-5p.m. to cover the state of the meetings industry and post-Covid experiences, featuring experts from Meet Minneapolis, Experience Rochester, and local and regional meetings industry associations.

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Smart Moves in South Carolina, Missouri and More

Smart Meetings

In her prior career, she was executive director for Meet, a South Carolina company, director of sales at Visit Myrtle Beach and convention sales manager for Kingston Plantation Resort. Gibson is now director of resort experience at Hawks Cay Resort in the Florida Keys. Daniel Gibson. Kimberly McCarden Foster, CTE.

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Winter Means Business in the Midwest

Connect Your Meetings

When old man winter rears his ugly head, the best thing you can do to boost your conference attendance is to head to Florida—right? We recently had our regular business—conventions, meetings and overall leisure—analyzed, and surprisingly even to us, business is basically at the same percentage for each of the four quarters,” says Bloemendaal.

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Derrick Johnson on Continuous Professional Development

PCMA Convene

I received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in music education where I studied flute and percussion. One year I decided the kid camps were no longer of interest, so I began helping their director of meetings onsite. Early Start Derrick Johnson planned events before he graduated high school. Education.

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Denzil Rankine: ‘We Have an Extraordinary Journey in This Industry’

PCMA Convene

based strategy consulting firm for the events industry, Rankine said that he and coauthor Giberti — founder and CEO of Miami, Florida–based consulting company Vesuvio Ventures — were “freaked out” about the timing. What would you say is the biggest challenge for a traditional association meeting planner? It comes from Star Wars.

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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 A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As

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