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Seeking Innovators, Experts, and Educators in Meeting Planning

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Whether your meetings specialty is event design, contract negotiations, operations management, sustainability, risk management, virtual events, speaker trends, food & beverage, or something else entirely, our call for speakers is seeking fresh voices to educate and spark new ideas for meetings and conventions.

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MPI Announces New Courses to Address Security, Risk Management

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Less than 50 percent of meeting planners have risk management plans in place for their events, said Paul Van Deventer, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), in remarks given at WEC 2017 on Tuesday. Van Deventer also spoke with Smart Meetings TV about change coming to MPI.

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Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs

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The free program touches on topics, in the form of webinars, from the basics of meeting planning to more complex topics, such as event technology and sustainability. Planners have also taken on new roles and are eager for more education to help them take on new tasks and responsibilities.”.

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COVID-19: Tips and Tools for Remote Work

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From Smart U Masterclasses to virtual book club, home exercises and the best tools for online meetings, we’ve got you covered. How to Binge Your Way to an Advanced Meetings Career. Planners who sharpen their skills to meet those new expectations will be the ones to excel. 5 Mistakes to Avert in Virtual Meetings.

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Free coronavirus-related webinars (May 2020)

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To help educate professionals during this unprecedented crisis and to help prepare them for the inevitable recovery, many industry groups are amping up their online offerings and making them freely available, as the MPI Academy has done for much of its content. Meeting Executive Re-Think Tank on Lessons Learned & Continued Impact ”.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master.

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ASAE Encourages Open Flow of Ideas, Advocates Against Discrimination

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The Center for Association Leadership (ASAE) Annual Meeting in Toronto opened bright and early Aug. As an organization, ASAE has a policy to not hold a meeting in a city where discriminatory laws are in effect , but he said he understood that some organizations don’t have a choice if that is where their membership lives. “We

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