Meeting Professionals International, the premier global association community for meeting and event professionals, believes in the unequalled power of events and human connections to advance organizational objectives.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

Meetings: The Social Platform of the Future

Speaker - Jackie Mulligan

Discover how you can design meetings for the social changes, needs and demands of the future in this interactive session based on the latest findings from MPI’s future of meetings research, which tracked social media live at events across the world and surveyed four generations on four continents. Take a close look at what makes these groups different AND the same, and understand why people share so much or so little of their lives online. Explore the opportunities ahead and discover how you can successfully engage your participants and clients online and offline.

• Develop ways in which you can encourage people to share more to enhance their meeting experiences.
• Identify key generational differences and consider their meeting design implications.
• Appreciate the value of online connections in supporting offline events and networks.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

360 Degrees of Stakeholder Engagement

Speaker - Betsy Bondurant, CMM, CTE

Meeting professionals frequently think of “stakeholder” as a single entity (the person who owns the event). But there are many stakeholders in our ecosystem: department managers, colleagues and—most importantly—attendees. In this learning lab, you will explore the importance of engaging all your stakeholders, and see how those stakeholders are intrinsically tied to demonstrating a meeting’s value. You will work through case studies and identify best practices that illuminate different challenges and offer key solutions. You will develop a Plan of Action (POA) by completing a stakeholder mapping exercise, and you will build a list of questions that will lead to meaningful measurements for your meetings and events.

• Understand the 360-degree landscape of stakeholders and how to engage them.
• Identify best practices in gaining stakeholder buy-in for articulating the business value of meetings.
• Create a Plan of Action for the development of meaningful measurements that will demonstrate the business value of your meetings.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:45 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

Fast Forward: A Look at Future Meeting Technologies

Speaker - Jackie Mulligan (w/guest Greg Van Dyke)

Beam up to a future world filled with technologies that are just emerging in labs and outside the industry. In this interactive session, you will see a timeline of new technologies and imagine what you might do and what meetings, travel and hospitality might look like in this new robotic, holographic, augmented, neurally connected world. As well as stimulating creative future thinking, you will uncover practical technological solutions for your current events based on future directions.

• Show off your technological savvy in your work with colleagues.
• Appreciate how new technologies will transform meetings in the future.
• Leave with a range of technological solutions to deepen engagement.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:45 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

How To Transform Your Meeting: The 5 Principles of Meeting Design

Speaker - Sam Smith

Is your meeting stuck in neutral? Are you looking for new approaches that will help you create breakthrough experiences? This interactive workshop introduces you to five principles of meeting design based on MPI’s research--the Principle of Assessment and Evaluation, the Principle of Meaningful Engagement, the Principal of Distributed Learning, the Principle of Collaboration and the Principle of Experience.

• Discover new design principles.
• Review industry leading examples.
• Learn how to bring these principles to life in your own events.

Session date and time TBD

Imagineering Tour: IncentiveWorks 2030

Speaker - Jackie Mulligan

Re-imagine the spaces, places and ways you meet during this “tour and workshop on the move.” See the now and imagine the future with insights into the key trends that have emerged from MPI's research into the future of meetings. Imagine IncentiveWorks 2030. What will be different? How will it evolve? And what does that mean for you?

• Enhance creative and future-thinking skills.
• Transform the "meeting-scape" by understanding key trends.
• Uncover insights into your own and others’ perspectives on how to address and invent the future.