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Friday July 22 2011

9:00AM-5:00PM

Proving the Value of Meetings and Events:  Two Day - ROI Competency Building Workshop (Additional Fee)

10:00AM-5:00PM

CMP Boot Camp (Additional Fee)

Saturday July 23 2011

Computer Lab

1:00PM-5:00PM

Critical Excel Tools for the Meeting Professional (additional fee)

Personal/Professional Development

9:30AM-4:30PM

Core Skills Workshop (Registration Required)

3:00PM-4:00PM

CMM Information Session

3:00PM-4:00PM

CMP Information Session

Thought Leadership

2:00PM-5:00PM

SMM Workshop for Meeting Professionals (Registration Required) (SMM)

Sunday July 24 2011

Attendee's Choice

2:00PM-3:00PM

Exceeding Customer Expectations

3:15PM-4:15PM

The Persuasive Email: How to Increase Your Influence Every Time You Write

Connections

8:30AM-9:30AM

The Meeting Professional of the Future - Generational Think Tank

2:00PM-4:15PM

Creating a Web of Influence

2:00PM-3:00PM

Global Emerging Leaders Town Hall 2011

3:15PM-4:15PM

Networking: Building Your Career Future

3:15PM-4:15PM

Increase Sales: Learn to be People Smart

Executive Panels

2:00PM-3:00PM

Defining Virtual and Hybrid Meeting Strategies

3:15PM-4:15PM

Mitigating Impact: Risk Management and Community

Insider's Exchange

3:15PM-4:15PM

Marketing and Monetizing Your Educational Conference Materials

Language of Business

8:30AM-9:30AM

A Brand New World

2:00PM-3:00PM

The Sky is Falling: Are Your DR Plans Ready?

3:15PM-4:15PM

Back to the Basics of Hotel Contracts

Outer Limits

8:30AM-9:30AM

Programming on Purpose: Engaging Your Audience

3:15PM-4:15PM

7 Leadership Secrets for Creating Masterpiece Meetings from Leonardo da Vinci

Personal/Professional Development

8:30AM-9:30AM

Simple Steps to an Extraordinary Career and Life

8:30AM-9:30AM

Meeting and Business Event Competency Standards

2:00PM-3:00PM

General Session Design 3.0: Keys to Your Organization and Your Personal Success

2:00PM-3:00PM

High-Impact Storytelling for High-Impact Presentations

3:15PM-4:15PM

10 Principles to Ensure Strategic Communication with Your Stakeholders

3:15PM-4:15PM

Developing the Must-Have Mindset: Reacting Positively to Threats to your Budget

Special Interest

8:30AM-9:30AM

Declare your Independence: New Opportunities for Independent Planners

2:00PM-3:00PM

Legal Issues: Taking Your Event Abroad

3:15PM-4:15PM

Recruit, Retain and Engage: Connecting with Gen-Y Employees

Technology

8:30AM-9:30AM

Do More with Less: The Rise of Free or Very Low Cost Web Tools for Meeting Professionals

8:30AM-9:30AM

Technology vs. Face to Face: Who Will Win?

2:00PM-3:00PM

Social Gaming for Events

2:00PM-3:00PM

Smart Phones = Smarter Meetings

3:15PM-4:15PM

Master Excel Computer Lab (additional fee)

The Next Step

8:30AM-9:30AM

Career Management 2.0: Building A Long-Term Career Strategy

2:00PM-3:00PM

Leading by Strengths (registration requested)

3:15PM-4:15PM

Getting Smart about Social Media - Creating a Strategic Plan

Thought Leadership

8:30AM-9:30AM

The Myth of Apathy: Engaging People with Sustainability (CSR)

8:30AM-9:30AM

Talking to the Top Brass (BVOM)

2:00PM-3:00PM

Green Menu Engineering: Working with your Venue to Save Money and the Environment (CSR)

2:00PM-3:00PM

Meeting Design: Research Implications & Applications (FOM)

2:00PM-3:00PM

SMM Skills Training (SMM)

3:15PM-4:15PM

“Next Practices – When Getting Bigger Means Going Smaller” – More Than A Case Study of Oracle OpenWorld (CSR)

3:15PM-4:15PM

FutureWatch 2011: Three Trends That Will Bring Success to You and Your Meetings (FOM)

Monday July 25 2011

Attendee's Choice

1:30PM-2:30PM

Exceeding Customer Expectations (repeat)

3:00PM-4:00PM

Designing Meetings that Excite, Enlighten, and Empower your Audience

Connections

1:30PM-2:30PM

FutureWatch 2011: Influence New Research on Planner-Supplier Relationships

3:00PM-4:00PM

What Are They Thinking? Understanding the ‘Other Side’ in Contract Negotiations

Language of Business

9:30AM-11:00AM

Year in Review: An Extraordinary Year for Meeting and Event Legal Cases

1:30PM-2:30PM

Code of Conduct: Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk

3:00PM-4:00PM

Back to the Basics of Hotel Contracts (repeat)

Personal/Professional Development

9:30AM-11:00AM

10 Actionable Moments

1:30PM-2:30PM

Create Your Way to Professional and Personal Success

3:00PM-4:00PM

Blue Prints 101: How to start an Emerging Leaders Program

3:00PM-4:00PM

10 Principles to Ensure Strategic Communication with Your Stakeholders (repeat)

Special Interest

1:30PM-2:30PM

Innovative Pricing Strategies for Association Meetings and Events

Technology

9:30AM-11:00AM

Even More Google-icious: How to Find Anything on the Internet (additional fee)

1:30PM-2:30PM

Hands-on Tech Lab

1:30PM-2:30PM

Facebook and Twitter for the Meeting Professional: This Time it's More than Personal (Additional Fee)

3:00PM-4:00PM

60 Sites in 60 Minutes: Essential Sites for Today's Meeting Professional (Additional Fee)

3:00PM-4:00PM

Social Gaming for Events (repeat)

The Next Step

1:30PM-2:30PM

The Secret To Learning: Four Questions That Must Be Answered

Thought Leadership

9:30AM-11:00AM

CANCELLED -- Creating a Successful Strategic Sourcing Program -- CANCELLED

9:30AM-11:00AM

What You Need to Know about Working with a DMO (Destination Marketing Organization)

9:30AM-11:00AM

Coca Cola: Evolving Corporate Client Expectations (CSR)

9:30AM-11:00AM

What Does the Future of the Meetings Industry Look Like? (FOM)

1:30PM-2:30PM

Where's the ROI in Green Meetings? (CSR)

1:30PM-2:30PM

The Business Value of Meetings and Events (BVOM)

3:00PM-4:00PM

Why Sustainability Reporting is Here to Stay (CSR)

3:00PM-4:00PM

How to Engage Attendees and Change the World (CSR)

3:00PM-4:00PM

Business Relationships in an SMM Environment (SMM)

Tuesday July 26 2011

Attendee's Choice

10:30AM-11:30AM

Designing Meetings that Excite, Enlighten, and Empower your Audience (repeat)

1:30PM-2:30PM

Personal Branding: How It Impacts and Plays a Key Role in Our Personal and Career Development

Connections

10:30AM-11:30AM

What Are They Thinking? Understanding the ‘Other Side’ in Contract Negotiations (repeat)

10:30AM-11:30AM

Planning Meetings in the New Reality

Executive Panels

10:30AM-11:30AM

The New Face of Negotiation: A Bigger Pie

3:00PM-4:00PM

Call for Action: Advocating Meetings

Insider's Exchange

1:30PM-2:30PM

Driving Record Exhibitors and Attendees to Your Event

Language of Business

10:30AM-11:30AM

I’ll See You in Court!: Navigating Dispute Resolution

1:30PM-4:00PM

Advanced Hotel Contract Boot Camp

Outer Limits

10:30AM-11:30AM

Boring Meetings Suck…The Time, Energy, Creativity and Profit Out of Your Organization™

1:30PM-4:00PM

Transform Your Sessions With These Participation Techniques

Personal/Professional Development

1:30PM-2:30PM

Conversation with MPI

1:30PM-2:30PM

Kelly Cutrone: The Real Deal

Special Interest

10:30AM-11:30AM

International Meetings Panel

3:00PM-4:00PM

Independent Planners: Your Time Has Arrived!

3:00PM-4:00PM

Enhance Your Business Offerings with Virtual Event Management

3:00PM-4:00PM

Hold the Mayo! Technology’s Role in the Generational Sandwich

Technology

10:30AM-11:30AM

FutureWatch 2011: Technology Isn’t Going Away…But It is Getting Smarter

1:30PM-2:30PM

140 Characters: The Legal Implications of Social Media

The Next Step

10:30AM-11:30AM

The 10 Ls of Leadership: Maximizing Your Leadership Qualities to be a Leader Others Want to Follow

10:30AM-11:30AM

Galaxy M3: Mobile Marketing, Mobile Commerce, and Mobile Strategies

Thought Leadership

10:30AM-11:30AM

The Full Monty: Standards Exposed (CSR)

10:30AM-11:30AM

Quality Costs Money (BVOM)

1:30PM-2:30PM

FutureWatch 2011: Smart Meetings and SMM Trends Revolutionize Events (SMM)

1:30PM-4:00PM

SAPPHIRE NOW: Behind the Scenes of SAP Inc.’s Groundbreaking Hybrid Event (Limited Seating) (BVOM)

1:30PM-2:30PM

Choosing Green Hotels & Venues (CSR)

3:00PM-4:00PM

Meetings Technology from Multiple Perspectives (SMM)

3:00PM-4:00PM

Decarbonating Your Events (CSR)

About CEU Credits

Many of the sessions at WEC 2011 will provide CEUs. Some exceptions are Flash Point, and a few of the interactive, peer-to-peer learning sessions designed to get people talking. MPI is working with CIC to make sure the most up-to-date and accurate information about what sessions are eligible according to the blueprint sections of the CMP exam. The maximum amount of CEU's you can receive at WEC 2011 is 12.5, including 1 session per time slot and both General Sessions. All sessions that are eligible for CEU credit are notated on the website.

CEU’s are provided at a conversion rate of .1 to 1 contact hour of learning – so a 1.5 hour session would be .15 CEU’s. Something that we started this year, since the CIC now uses contact hours as their measurement, is recording BOTH in the MPI member transcripts that can be accessed on the website through the Career Development tab once you are signed in as a member