Miracle Workers: A Podcast for Meeting Planners by Meeting Planners.

EP 10: Where Do We Go From Here? The Immediate Future of In-Person Meetings

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Amanda and Darryl continue the discussion of getting back to in-person meetings and what they will look like when it’s safe to meet again. They interview Lindsay Gold, CMP Director of Meetings and Events at Associated Builders and Contractors on her group’s move of their annual meeting to September in Nashville and Meeting Professionals International (MPI), Senior Vice President for Experiences, Annette Gregg, CMM, MBA to get an industry view of our soon to be reality.

Take-Aways:

  1. Meetings will come back but it will take time and it will look different based on location, industry, and format
  2. Venues will need to be more flexible when it comes to contracting (cancellation and room-to-space ratios), spacing, sanitizing, pricing (wifi/bandwidth) and being empathetic to guest needs
  3. Planners need to think about their whole audience and plan for less people in the same space and for a virtual audience.
  4. Our professional groups can continue to support us by sharing best practices and guidelines for planners dealing with concerned audiences, increased liability, and in some cases loss of work.

    5. RESOURCES/LINKS

    Mike Dominguez, ALHI, on meetings starting up this summer (via The Eventful Podcast):

    https://www.northstarmeetingsgroup.com/Podcasts/The-Eventful-Podcast/Meetings-Industry-recovery-now-michael-dominguez?fbclid=IwAR3sGMhOWlSMl_m_LeOQMh4CA8jg3Ah_2orILN33qj-_QXlrlvtYMGXMdH4

    What do conferences look like post Covid-19 (via Meetings.net):

    https://www.meetingstoday.com/magazines/article-details/articleid/34301/title/hotels-conferences-post-covid-19

    MPI Coronavirus Resources: https://www.mpi.org/tools/coronavirus

    EIC Coronavirus Resources: https://eventscouncil.org/coronavirus

    MPI Foundation: https://www.mpi.org/about/foundation

    PCMA Foundation: https://foundation.pcma.org/

    Meeting Industry Fund: http://www.themeetingsindustryfund.org/

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