Skift Meetings Podcast

#88 Paul Van Deventer: Proving the Value of Meetings to the Wider Business World

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This episode features Paul Van Deventer, CEO of MPI (Meeting Professionals International).

The conversation focuses on proving the value of meetings to the wider business world.

Here are a few of the topics we cover:

  • How the events industry only started to learn how to tell its story after coming under attack from politicians during the 2008 financial crisis
  • how the absence of meetings proved their importance during the Covid pandemic
  • The value of local chapters, particularly with events like EMEC coming up
  • Why MPI takes risks at their events, so planners don’t have to do that on their own
  • Keeping an open mind about what MPI becomes and allowing people to customize their journey
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