Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID)

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 8:00am-12:00pm - Minneapolis Convention Center

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) shines a light on the real impact meetings have on people, businesses and the economy. Led by the Meeting Mean Business Coalition, it brings together meetings industry advocates across six continents and more than forty countries. Don't miss the opportunity on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 to celebrate the industry's enduring business value and its $2.53 trillion in global economic impact.

The power of what business meetings, conferences, conventions, incentive travel, trade shows and exhibitions collectively do for people, businesses and communities:

• Create Personal Connections – Personal relationships are at the core of every business decision and face-to-face meetings provide professionals with that personal interaction, which leads to deeper relationships. 
• Drive Positive Business Outcomes – Meetings and events deliver profits, help win new accounts, serve as education platforms and allow colleagues and partners to come together to innovate and achieve results.
• Build Strong Communities – Outside of the results driven by business meetings, the events and meetings industry creates hundreds of thousands of jobs, generates billions of dollars of revenue and supports communities across North America.

Just Announced:  Special Keynote Speaker, Doug Loon – President of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.  Doug will engage planners and suppliers in a riveting discussion on future state policies that might affect the way meetings and events are orchestrated in the state of Minnesota. Specific mandates like paid leave and the advanced scheduling module, access to resources like workforce, lack of resources that impact event budgets and the hot topic of recreational marijuana impacting the event community.

As you are aware, we will be having a panel discussion during our Global Meetings Industry Event.  This panel will be comprised of your colleagues in the event industry.  In preparation for the panel discussion we would like to hear from you.  Please click on the link below to let us know what questions you have and/or what you'd like to talk about during the panel time.  We will do our best to get to all of your requests!