Leading association management company MCI has entered into a new collaboration with the IMEX Group and MPI to support the Future Leaders Forum (FLF). The global FLF program is an initiative designed to encourage the best and brightest students to enter the meeting and incentive travel industry by offering education days, networking opportunities and internships.

To mark MCI’s involvement, the initiative has been renamed the IMEX-MPI-MCI Future Leaders Forum and will also be promoted with new branding.

The FLF consists of a series of special events hosted around the globe. In 2012, locations include Honduras, Korea, China, Australia, Poland and Thailand. Around 900 students participated in the program in 2011, and around 5,100 students have now gone through an FLF since its launch in 2003. 90 percent of them have stated they are "more likely to enter the industry as a result of attending the Future Leaders Forum."