"Going Global" with MPI UK & Ireland Insights!
The educational agenda included several speakers divided into parallel sessions. The keynotes gave an outlook for destinations, travel, skills and tech that provide both opportunities and challenge for events and business overseas.
Carolyn Gomez Skins - CSR global differences and the art of responsible competition
In a thriving ecosystem exists both competition and collaboration. This underpins the importance of implementing global sustainable brands to compete responsibly and collaboration within the industry on core topics to achieve global sustainability goals.
Carolyn has always worked within Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability across multiple sectors ranging from Cosmetics to Aerospace Engineering and has now joined the Hospitality sector as Carlson Rezidor’s Responsible Business Manager. Carolyn enjoys to collaboratively Re: think social, environmental and economic systems in order to create the world we all dream of.
Watch Carolyn Gomez Skins interview about sustainability and MPI events:
Dr. Eliza Hixson - Strategic Meetings Management: what is happening and what it means
This presentation explained the nature of Strategic Meeting Management (SMM), including insights into the key drivers for SMM adoption and key practices implemented. Raised issues with global implementation as well as the impact of SMM for suppliers.
Dr Eliza Hixson is a Senior Lecturer of Events Management at Leeds Beckett University (Carnegie Faculty) and course leader for Conference and Exhibitions Management. She holds an honours degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management and a PhD from the University of South Australia. Eliza’s PhD research focused on assessing the social impact of major events. More recently she led research to investigate the practices and value of Strategic Meetings Management which involved interviews and a survey with meeting professionals. Eliza’s results were published in a series of papers published here www.mpiweb.org/SMM.
Watch Dr. Eliza Hixson interview about SMM and MPI events:
Richard Parker, MPI UK & I Chapter President was very proud of the event outcome and said: "We held firm to our strategic commitment of stand-out education and networking, and we are starting to gain recognition as the association that consistently delivers on that front. We have now reached more than 150 people with our Insights ‘brand’ in 2015 and it is clearly a model that works."
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