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January 10-13 2010 Annual Meeting, PCMA	Dallas, TX, USA

December 2009 trade show and conference EIBTM	Barcelona, Spain

October 29, 2009 Kluwer MAP training A one day training took place at Wolters-Kluwer for their conference organisers.	Mechelen, Belgium

October 25 - 27 2009 Global Conference ACTE Presentation: "The 9 fundamentals to successful presentations"	Prague Czech Republic

August 31 - September 04, 2009, ROI Week European Event ROI institute ROI certification course, a day on Survey design and much more... with Patty Phillips, Jack Phillips, Elling Hamso. The venue is Radisson Blu St. Helens Hotel, a beautiful 250 year old mansion just 5 km from Dublin city centre and 16 km from the airport. A two day on Meeting Architecture and ROI with Maarten Vanneste and Elling Hamso.	Dublin, Ireland

August 23, 2009 International Convention, NBTA One day course MAP™ (Meeting Architecture Process) by Maarten Vanneste Elective for CCTE (Certified Corporate Travel Executive)	San Diego, CA, USA

August,19-21, 2009 First Meeting Design Summer course A three day course on meeting design, meeting architecture. A dynamic workshop with a broad pallet on tools, techniques and knowledge to apply when designing meeting. A mix of Student and senior meeting planners. One day by Maarten Vanneste, Eric de Groot and Mike van de Vijver.	Caserta Italy

July 11-14, 2009 World Education Congress, MPI A 90 minute presentation by Maarten Vanneste. A copy of the book 'Meeting Architecture' for participants kindly offered by Spotme an unsolicited response: I took your class at the WEC. It was the BEST class and that class alone made the whole WEC a success for me. It seems it is a MUST for anyone who plans meetings. Victoria Johnson, CMP, CMM Underwriters Laboratories Inc. Manager, Meeting Services & Sourcing, Global Sourcing USA	Salt Lake City, UT, USA

May 28, 2009 9:30 - 11:30 Meeting Industry Associations Round Table Room Synergy 4, IMEX. A mile stone meeting where 4 of the largest Meeting Industry associations, agreed on the fact that Meeting Architecture comes at the right time for a collaboration amongst all organisations.	Frankfurt, Germany

May 28, 2009 11:30 - 12:15 "Meetings Architecture Project and Paper." PDIP room A briefing of the current situation around Meeting Architecture and the Paper (The Meeting Architecture Manifesto". Picture from the session by Johan Johansson from 5starDays.	Frankfurt, Germany

May 28, 2009 13:30 - 16:00 MPI Educational Symposium, Room 9.1 15 minute presentation MPI Academic Symposium followed by discussion amongst academics.	Frankfurt, Germany

May 28, 2009 14:30 - 15:30 "the sense of Science in Meetings." PDIP room some new scientific insights that wa can apply to meetings.	Frankfurt, Germany

May 27, 2009 16:30 Closing session "Meetings Under the Microscope" with Jon Bradshaw and Maarten Vanneste in the PDIP room What is Meetings Under the microscope? A short introduction of the concept of "Looking beyond meeting logistics"	Frankfurt, Germany

May 26,2009 20:00 Meeting Architecture Dinner in Frankfurt A CLAMP dinner with almost 40 participants Meeting Architecture Dinner: Frankfurt, Tuesday 26 May 20:00 (8:00pm) To keep the momentum growing and discuss the paper A diner with about 40 participants on the private top floor of a typical German place at the first evening of IMEX. (www.IMEX-Frankfurt.com) Gathering a rich variation of people with an interest in Meeting Architecture and the development of this discipline: professionals, academics, media, students, entrepreneurs, consultants etc. A mix for intense discussion, as was clearly demonstrated at the previous, sold out TORINO dinner that took place in conjunction with MPI’s European Meetings and Events Conference. This dinner get’s you connected to likeminded guests, generating the best networking and learning in a real energising and unique environment. The topic of this gathering will be the White Paper: “The Meeting Architecture Manifesto”.	Frankfurt, Germany

May 25, 2009 Association Day, Round-Table Discussions: IMEX Delegates return on investment (ROI) and Educational Program Development	Frankfurt, Germany

May 25 2009 IMEX Association Day, Presentations IMEX & ICCA 13:00 - 14:15 How to give your congress delegates the best Networking experience 14:30 - 15:45 How to give your congress delegates the best Networking experience (repeat) Very successful session as done at EMIF, Brussels where the organizer said: "We only got positive reactions: all participants really learned something in a fun and interactive way." Complementary copy of 'Meeting Architecture' for all participants by Lille Convention Bureau	Frankfurt, Germany

May 14th, 2009 16:00 - 17:30 Crossroads Conference, NBTA presentation: How to create successful meetings with high ROI With Elling Hamso	Paris, France

May 12, 2009 Afternoon: Live Communication in the marketing mix. (DUTCH) As part of 4 session in Event and project management. HUB University Brussels, Ehsal. INSTIMA is the training institute of the Belgian Marketing Foundation.	Brussels, Belgium

May 8, 2009 Half day training on MAP and ROI with Elling Hamso for INNEVENTO	Bilbao, Spain

May 7, 2009 9:00 - 13:00 Half day training on MAP & ROI with Elling Hamso, INNEVENTO	Madrid, Spain

April 23, 2009 18:00 - 21:00 Presentation Meeting Architecture, Lighthouse Events	Ghent, Belgium

April 21, 2009 MEETINGS & EVENTS 2.0 conference, Powered by CXO magazine Video report (in Dutch)	Lint, Belgium

April 2 - 4 2009 “MEETING MURATORE” O “MEETING ARCHITETTO”? Federcongressi by Rodolfo Musco, CMP, CMM and Mike Van der Vijver. "Rodolfo Musco and Mike Van de Vijver had the opportunity to do a presentation on Meeting Architecture during the annual conference of Federcongressi, the Italian Federation of Conference Facilities. The active audience was especially interested in the relationship with the final client: how can intermediaries convince them that their meetings are in need of an overhaul to make them more effective? Indeed, not an easy task in a very traditional country such as Italy, where most economic activities have a political lining. In any case, one of the answers is: by starting to ask the right questions!"	Genoa, Italy
March 19, 2009, 12:00-13:30, presentation on Networking at EMIF A successful session on Networking, framed in the bigger “Meeting Architecture” picture. Organized by RendEvenement, it had an exceptional registration of about 120 of which almost 100 showed up: a real success at a trade show. A Brand new presentation, sparking loads of positive response, will appear again at the IMEX association day.	Brussels, Belgium
March 3, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00 EMEC, Presentation on Meeting Architecture, MPI Books were offered to participants with compliments of Spotme.	Torino, Italy	EMEC
March 2, 2009 19:00 Dinner with Meeting Architecture friends (organised via Facebook) Anna Mocchi and Giuseppe Lepri, two of 29 guests at a wonderful dinner in the CLAMP Dinner format	Torino, Italy	DINNER TORINO
February 24 -26, 2009, 10:30am presentation, Technology to supercharge your events, Confex The Meeting Architecture DInner in London During Confex	London, UK	CONFEX
February 8, 2009, 7pm Dinner with Meeting Architecture friends (organised via Facebook)	Atlanta, GA, USA	DINNER ATLANTA
February 7-10, Meet Different, Emergent Technology Learning Labs MPI.	Atlanta, GA, USA
January 14-15, 2009 IPCAA IPCAA is the International Pharmaceutical Congress Advisory Council. The IPCAA General Assembly in 2009 in Vienna invited Maarten Vanneste to speak about Meeting Architecture. Many questions were asked about the profession and the plans for the future. Participants got a signed copy of the book. Luc Hendrickx (AC-Forum), Anna Frick (Astra Zeneca), Keith Spencer (IPCAA), Christian Mutschlechner (Vienna Convention Bureau) and in the back Maarten Vanneste	Vienna, Austria
January 8th to 9th 2009, MA2020 Conclave A group of senior leaders in the meetings industry got together in the wonderful Regent Bal Harbour hotel for a two day conclave around meeting architecture. The group generated great discussions and a lot of new idea's building on from the Copenhagen conclave in October 2008. Richard Elliot, Bänz Ledin, Ms ...(Regent Sales), Lori Cioffi, Victoria Ascione, John S. Parke, Marge Anderson, Lynda Garvey, Mary Boone, Janet Sperstad, Bruce M. MacMillan, Elling Hamso, Kari Knoll Kesler, Terri Breining, Tyra W. Hilliard, Martin Young, Susan Radojevic, Maarten Vanneste, Amanda Cecil.	Bal Harbour, Florida, USA
December 8th 2008, Lunch Presentation, Hotel Bloom	Brussels, Belgium
December 7th 2008, 11:30, Presentation, Exporama Starting on a Sunday morning with 15 and ending with around 40 participants. Simultaneous translation and a voting system made sure we got some serious feedback.	Athens, Greece
December 4th 2008, 9:00 - 13:00 CEO Summit, Book presentation, EIBTM A brief presentation at the end of the CEO summit and a wonderful endorsement by Paul Kennedy was followed by the hand-out of signed copies of the book.	Barcelona, Spain
December 3rd 2008, 9:30 - 11:30 2 hr course, EIBTM A great 2 hr workshop with Elling Hamso. lot's of discussion with a large group of students, professionals and others. A positive comment from a senior corporate meeting planner confirmed the value of the session.	Barcelona, Spain
December 2nd 2008, 13:00 - 14:00 Keynote, EIBTM A short 45 minute presentation.	Barcelona, Spain
November 27th 2008, 11:00 - 14:00, Master Class, Universidade Anhembi Morumbi Maarten poses for a picture at the entrance of the campus with Prof. Elizabeth Wada PhD.	Sao Paulo, Brazil
November 28th 2008, 13:00 - 14:00 Closing presentation, MPI Chapter Conference About 150 meeting planners and marketing professionals from banks and pharmaceutical companies were gathering for the one day MPI conference. Maarten's closing presentation sent them home with food for thought. Books for participants with compliments of Alatur.	Sao Paulo, Brazil
November 18 - 19 2008, White Paper Conclave "Meeting Architecture 2020" Two great days of discussion conversation etc. The first big step towards a white paper on where Meeting Architecture may lead the industry. Roger Tondeur, Roger Kellerman, Martin Lewis,Luc Hendrickx, Ole Sorang, Kerstin Hoffmann, Philippe Fournier, Isabel Bardinet, Bo Magnusson, Atti Soenarso, Christian Mutslechener, Johan Johanson, Lars Bliccher Hanssen, Maarten Vanneste, Elling Hamso. (Not in the picture, Anna Frick and Ib Ravn.)	Copenhagen, Denmark
November 19 2008, 14:00 - 16:00 Presentation / forum MA 2020, MPI Chapter MPI Denmark's biggest ever educational meeting with a presentation on Meeting Architecture.	Copenhagen, Denmark
November 5th 2008, Presentation , ICCA conference ICCA sponsored 100 copies of the book. NEWS: RTE endorses During the ICCA conference, the announcement was made of the worldwide support by Reed Travel Exhibitions for the concept of Meeting Architecture. Paul Kennedy and Maarten Vanneste did a joint video interview for Meetings Review.	Victoria, BC, Canada
Key note presentation by Maarten Vanneste. Tuesday September 16th, 2008, 13:00 - 14:00 EventUK sponsored 50 copies of the book "'Meeting Architecture" for participants. More books were available in the ADVICE CENTRE during the show. The presentation drew 50% more participants than available seats. A big hit!	London, UK
MPI's WEC, August 2008: - Maarten Vanneste in Mary Boone's "Master Class on Meeting Design" You-Tube - Book available at the MPI bookstore - Discussion dinner about "Meeting Architecture, 2020"	Las Vegas, TX, USA