FROM THE MPI PRESS RELEASE:
The RISE Award for Meeting Industry Leadership will be presented to Maarten Vanneste, CMM, the
author and publisher of “Meeting Architecture, A Manifesto.” Maarten’s work is changing the way
professionals approach the planning of meetings. The tools and logic he has created enable meeting
professionals to design meetings that achieve results based on objectives. His work will leave a lasting
legacy on how we evolve the practice of meeting design and further emphasize the importance of
PCMA (Professional Conference Management Association) is one of the leading associations in the conference industry. Their Magazine CONVENE publishes a 4 page article on the book and the concept of Meeting Architecture. by Christopher Durso Read the attached PDF.
A search in Google of ‘Pecha Kucha’ results in 474,000 hits.
The FutureWatch 2010 report, by Meetings Professional International (MPI), finds out that ROI is ‘a major preoccupation’ for event planners.
And according to the study Convention 2020 (Talwar & Hancock, 2010), if event planners want to stay competitive in the near future, the two most important needs are to ‘improve the use of technology before, during and after the event’ and to ‘innovate on event formats’.
MeetingArchitecture.com is the site where Maarten Vanneste, author of "Meeting Architecture, a manifesto" publishes news, links, etc. that may be of interest to you. Information about the book, presentations, training, etc Contact: +32 1 444 88 33 maarten.vanneste@abbit.eu
