Tag: MPI

Guest blogger Christine Doyle shares her thoughts on how and why association memberships can be beneficial to planners. [...] Read more

MPI recently released the winners of this years RISE awards that will be honored at a banquet July 24 in Vancouver, British Columbia. [...] Read more

Online nominations for MPI’s Recognizing Industry Success and Excellence (RISE) Awards are being accepted until Dec. [...] Read more

Matching the mood of other national business surveys, the results of the most recent survey of meeting planners indicate a trend toward a more positive outlook, giving industry members a reason for some much needed year-end cheer. [...] Read more

Meeting Professionals International’s first-ever RISE Award for Organizational Achievement will be presented to the Obama for America campaign at MPI’s annual World Education Congress in Salt Lake City July 10. [...] Read more

More than 350 planners and suppliers have passed the January 10, 2009 Certified Meeting Professional exam, earning the CMP professional credential given by the Convention Industry Council. [...] Read more

Meg Fasy, CMP, is the new global leader of sales and marketplace performance for Meeting Professionals International (MPI). Fasy joins the MPI senior management team as the vice president of sales and marketplace performance, and will be responsible for MPI’s global sales efforts, which includes advancing partner relationships and overseeing all revenue streams for advertising and strategic partnerships, as well as supporting the fundraising efforts of the MPI Foundation. Fasy previously served as vice president [...] Read more

Generally, the business of planning meetings has been pretty low profile. Not that it’s not big business—think of the logistics and ripple-down economic impact of President Obama’s inauguration celebration earlier this year. But, in the wake of several high-profile, high-flying corporate events, the meetings’ industry suddenly found itself in the midst of a media frenzy at the end of 2008 and the beginning of the new year.
Wells Fargo placed a full-page ad in The Washington [...] Read more