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Friday July 27 2012

9:00AM-5:00PM
Proving the Value of Meetings and Events: Two Day - ROI Competency Building Workshop (Additional Fee and Registration Required)
10:00AM-5:00PM
CMP Master Class (Additional Fee)
This Session Gives CEU Credit
1:00PM-5:00PM
Core Skills Workshop (Additional Fee and Registration Required)

Saturday July 28 2012

9:00AM-5:00PM
Proving the Value of Meetings and Events: Two Day - ROI Competency Building Workshop (Additional Fee and Registration Required)
9:00AM-5:00PM
Core Skills Workshop (Additional Fee and Registration Required)
1:00PM-5:00PM
Critical Excel Tools for the Meeting Professional
This Session Gives CEU Credit
3:00PM-4:00PM
CMP Information Session
This Session Gives CEU Credit
3:00PM-4:00PM
CMM Information Session

Sunday July 29 2012

2:15PM-3:30PM
Hotel Sales Giants Talk About What’s Keeping Them Up at Night
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:15PM-3:30PM
General Session Design 3.0: Keys to Your Organization and Your Personal Success
2:15PM-3:30PM
Collaborating in the Connected World
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:15PM-5:15PM
Getting More: How to Negotiate for Greater Success in Work and Life (Registration Required)
2:15PM-3:30PM
Myth-Busting on the High Seas: Perception vs. Reality When It Comes to Cruise Meetings
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:15PM-5:15PM
Creating a Web of Influence
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:15PM-5:15PM
World Education Congress 2013: Designing the Meeting You Want to Attend
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:15PM-3:30PM
Master Excel Lab: Taking Your Spreadsheet Skills to a Higher Level
2:15PM-3:30PM
There’s an App for That
This Session Gives CEU Credit
4:00PM-5:15PM
The “Melting Pot” Perspective: Incorporating Values from a Wide Array of Stakeholders
This Session Gives CEU Credit
4:00PM-5:15PM
Venue Contracts: The Current Trend, Interesting Case Studies and Looking Ahead
4:00PM-5:15PM
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Practice: Your Meetings, Your Delegates, Your Communities
This Session Gives CEU Credit
4:00PM-5:15PM
Making WEC a Better Place for People to Connect
4:00PM-5:15PM
Mobile Meetings: Earning Snaps with Killer Apps
This Session Gives CEU Credit

Monday July 30 2012

9:00AM-10:00AM
Social Currency: Creating Value Instead of Extracting It
9:00AM-11:45AM
10 Actionable Moments: How to Make Every Second Count
9:00AM-10:00AM
Auditioning for “The Voice” of Your Strategic Meetings Management Program (SMMP)
This Session Gives CEU Credit
9:00AM-10:00AM
Flash Forward 2030: MPI’s “Future of Meetings”
This Session Gives CEU Credit
9:00AM-10:00AM
Meeting Pros Are from Mars, Attendees Are from Venus: Techniques for Creating a Remarkable Hybrid Event
This Session Gives CEU Credit
9:00AM-10:00AM
Negotiation Leverage: How Hotels and CVBs Determine the Value of Your Event
9:00AM-10:00AM
Even More Google-licious!
9:00AM-10:00AM
R U Here? Using Mobile and Social Technologies to Engage “The Tethered Audience”
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Sales and Revenue Management: Managing the Relationship
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Creating Shared Value
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Surveys: The Art of Asking Questions
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Redefining Registration: Taking Event Management to New Heights
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Overcoming the “Geek Speak” of Meeting Technology: What Should Be In the Request for Proposals (RFP) and Why
10:30AM-11:45AM
Sustainable Event Myth Busters
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
What’s Happening With China's Meeting Industry?
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Digital Storytelling: Telling Your Story Through Social Media
2:30PM-3:30PM
It's about Building Relationships: Why CRM Systems are Critical to Meeting Professionals
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:30PM-3:30PM
Unconferences and Open Spaces: Designing Participatory Events to Create Real Connections
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:30PM-3:30PM
Global Emerging Leaders Town Hall 2012
2:30PM-3:30PM
SMMP Stands for “So Much More than Procurement”
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:30PM-3:30PM
Forever Young, Forever MPI
2:30PM-3:30PM
Imagineering Tour: WEC 2030
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:30PM-3:30PM
The Green Meeting Standards: Procurement Partnerships for Sustainable Events
2:30PM-3:30PM
Firing Up the CVB Sales Forces: An Inside-Out Approach to the CVB Industry Brand Promise (For DMO/ CVBs Only)
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:30PM-3:30PM
Mobile Meetings: Earning Snaps with Killer Apps
2:30PM-3:30PM
The Underserved Audience: How Virtual Events Can Connect Even the Largest Groups
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:30PM-3:30PM
Conversation with MPI
4:00PM-5:15PM
High Tech vs. High Touch: The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be
This Session Gives CEU Credit
4:00PM-5:15PM
Online Reputation Management: Your Career/ Your Future
4:00PM-5:15PM
The Mobile Event App Shake Up: What’s New, What’s Next & What You Need to Know
This Session Gives CEU Credit
4:00PM-5:15PM
Meeting Management Ethics: What’s In It for Me?
This Session Gives CEU Credit
4:00PM-5:15PM
Going Global: I Wish I Had Known This and Hadn’t Done That!
This Session Gives CEU Credit
4:00PM-5:15PM
What's Next on Your SMM Journey ?
4:00PM-5:15PM
Meetings that Payoff- Maximizing Your ROA (Return on Attendance)
This Session Gives CEU Credit
4:00PM-5:15PM
How to Bring Hybrid Events to Your Organization
This Session Gives CEU Credit

Tuesday July 31 2012

10:30AM-11:45AM
Put a Ring on It: Dating Advice for Associations
10:30AM-11:45AM
Live the Dream: Creative Decision-Making for Association Planners
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Shifting Gears: How to Move from Logistic to Strategic 
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Get Ready: Government Mandates Are Changing the Industry
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Championing Adaptability in International Settings
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Making Sense of the Madness: How to Harness the Hotel RFP Process
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Do It Right and Avoid a Dispute! Contracting Essentials for Independent Planners
This Session Gives CEU Credit
10:30AM-11:45AM
Pursuing the New Careerscape with Purpose
2:00PM-3:15PM
Unconferences and Open Spaces: Designing Participatory Events to Create Real Connections
2:00PM-3:15PM
Scaled-Up Business: Monetizing the Digital Extension of Face-to-Face Events
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:00PM-3:15PM
Hotel Contracts Boot Camp: Legal Tips & Practical Guidelines for Meeting Professionals
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:00PM-3:15PM
Pharmaceutical Meeting Planning 101
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:00PM-3:15PM
Around the World in 75 Minutes: Successfully Navigating the International Meeting Landscape
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:00PM-3:15PM
Supplier Stuff: Things That Every Supplier Should Know
This Session Gives CEU Credit
2:00PM-3:15PM
Say It So It Matters: Speaking with Purpose, Pretense and Passion
2:00PM-3:15PM
Trends in Event Marketing
This Session Gives CEU Credit
3:45PM-5:00PM
Inside the “Shark Tank”: Diverse and Dynamic Association Meeting Design
This Session Gives CEU Credit
3:45PM-5:00PM
You’ve Collected Your Data … Now What?
This Session Gives CEU Credit
3:45PM-5:00PM
Global Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Meetings and Events
This Session Gives CEU Credit
3:45PM-5:00PM
Navigating International C's: Understanding Contracts, Currency and Customs
3:45PM-5:00PM
Strategic Meetings Management (SMM): Working from the Supplier’s Side of the Equation
This Session Gives CEU Credit
3:45PM-5:00PM
Power in Numbers
3:45PM-5:00PM
Event Marketing Case Studies
This Session Gives CEU Credit

About CEU Credits   

Many of the sessions at WEC 2012 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 2012 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