Top 5 Results From MPI World Education Congress

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Top 5 Results From MPI World Education Congress in Vancouver

We talked about these five top results from MPI World Education Congress and a few more on the podcast.

1) Vancouver Convention Centre- just amazing (listen to Show 130 with Jinny Wu)

2) Community- really great community of people. I met so many interesting people.

3) Technology- MPI is trying hard to stay up with the technology trends- the Quickmobile app- the handy guides — tag reader– social media gurus- (get people excited about social media)— New Website launched- Live Stream for virtually attendees- Hit or miss? Sustainable section- Carbon footprint calculator to gauge impact of meetings.

” Technology of humans does not change face-to face meetings will always be here”

4) Our interview with David Rich from George P Johnson- —the session with Cisco and George P Johnson giving us their Digital blueprints

Strategy before tactics (Using technology and live meetings)
Understand your objectives— Who is your audience– Strategy– Technology (fish where the fish are)

5) Inspiring Keynotes

Emmaunel Gobillot- Fantastic speaker who compared meetings to Ikea-

Seth Matthison- His talk on Generations- So so interesting- the differences- and understanding who your coworkers and audience is. Take it into consideration when presenting (How generations absorb or like theire information given)

Jeremy Gutsche– Mellinum- quick fast slides- images and facts…. cool guy with some great information.

“Obsess about your story relentlessly”

Also a quick number (6) CORPORATE responsibility— Programs MPI presented attendees with.

Seth described also that the generation coming up the Millenniums are looking for these types of programs in the meetings they choose to attend. (A footnote on this: the Salmon CSR Mike attended at WEC most of the attendees were Generation Xers )

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