Connected International Meeting
Professionals Association

We need your help!

This is a good time to reflect on how we, as meetings, incentives and travel planners do business. Do you sometimes think that the "normal" format of conferences has become "tired"?  Do meetings feel more like Middle School, with a few "assembly programs" (general sessions) followed by a flurry of classes (breakouts), with minimal interaction and the absence of a well thought-out instructional design?. Does it sometimes look like the commercials overwhelm the learning opportunities?

WHAT IF we radically changed the conference model and go for much smaller groups of people pursuing the same objectives, get them set up with the appropriate mentors and design fun learning experiences outside the classroom? Why do attendees have to sneak out of meeting rooms to experience the destination? Isn't the destination part of the learning package and one of the reasons why they are attending the conference?

For the joint conference of the Connected International Meeting Professionals Association and Asian Leaders Association, we want to dramatically re-design the conference format. Can you help us with some ideas? We invite you to be a co-designer for this 16 year old conference.

Read blog on "Skipping the Mega Conferences"

KEEP IN MIND

1. We do not want to exclude speakers. On the contrary, we want to give them an expanded role as both speakers and mentors.

2. We want to have more meaningful interaction with suppliers.

3. We still want time to have everyone together as a big group.

4. We want to have interesting, focused, educational small group activities.

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