(4-5 pm)
Join Rachel Benedick Executive Vice President, Convention Sales & Services at VISIT DENVER as she gives on update on the State of Meetings in Denver.  She will cover everything from VISIT DENVER updates to the Denver International Airport to the Colorado Convention Center and a review of sentiment research as well.

Learning Objectives:

•  Learn about current mandates affecting Denver & Colorado and how they impact your meeting or event
• Get updates on the status of the Colorado Convention Center and areas of use
• Learn how hotels are strategizing for the future groups
• See how other event and meeting professionals in Colorado feel about the industry with interactive polls and recent surveys

(5-6 pm)
Network with your MPI peers in breakouts to include:

• q&a with Rachel
• Scavenger hunt
• Networking
• Trivia

Sponsors

Speaker:
Rachel Benedick is the Executive Vice President, Sales & Services for VISIT DENVER. She started her tenure with VISIT DENVER in 1998 and has served in several roles and was promoted to the Vice President role in 2008 and the Executive Vice President role in January 2020. She oversees the convention department comprised of 30 team members. Rachel received a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology & Counselor Education in 2001 from the University of Colorado – Denver and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1995 from Michigan State University. If asked she’ll tell you she uses those psychology degrees EVERY DAY  When she’s not working she can be found spending time with her weimaraner Rezak, working out, or drinking really great red wine because life is too short to not enjoy good wine ;)

MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter is a CMP Preferred Provider. The use of the CMP Preferred Provider Pre-Check logo is not an endorsement by the Event Industry Council of the quality of the session. This logo means that this session has met the criteria to be pre-approved for CMP certification credit. – CMP-IS Domain C: Risk Management  This events attendance roster will be uploaded to the EIC for CE credits tracking (if applicable).If you do not have a EIC account, you can create one atwww.eventscouncil.org In order for these records to be accepted by EIC, the email used for registration MUST match (case sensitive) the email provided to the EIC for your account.

(4-5 pm)
Join Rachel Benedick Executive Vice President, Convention Sales & Services at VISIT DENVER as she gives on update on the State of Meetings in Denver.  She will cover everything from VISIT DENVER updates to the Denver International Airport to the Colorado Convention Center and a review of sentiment research as well.

Learning Objectives:

•  Learn about current mandates affecting Denver & Colorado and how they impact your meeting or event
• Get updates on the status of the Colorado Convention Center and areas of use
• Learn how hotels are strategizing for the future groups
• See how other event and meeting professionals in Colorado feel about the industry with interactive polls and recent surveys

(5-6 pm)
Network with your MPI peers in breakouts to include:

• q&a with Rachel
• Scavenger hunt
• Networking
• Trivia

Sponsors

Speaker:
Rachel Benedick is the Executive Vice President, Sales & Services for VISIT DENVER. She started her tenure with VISIT DENVER in 1998 and has served in several roles and was promoted to the Vice President role in 2008 and the Executive Vice President role in January 2020. She oversees the convention department comprised of 30 team members. Rachel received a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology & Counselor Education in 2001 from the University of Colorado – Denver and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1995 from Michigan State University. If asked she’ll tell you she uses those psychology degrees EVERY DAY  When she’s not working she can be found spending time with her weimaraner Rezak, working out, or drinking really great red wine because life is too short to not enjoy good wine ;)

MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter is a CMP Preferred Provider. The use of the CMP Preferred Provider Pre-Check logo is not an endorsement by the Event Industry Council of the quality of the session. This logo means that this session has met the criteria to be pre-approved for CMP certification credit. – CMP-IS Domain C: Risk Management  This events attendance roster will be uploaded to the EIC for CE credits tracking (if applicable).If you do not have a EIC account, you can create one atwww.eventscouncil.org In order for these records to be accepted by EIC, the email used for registration MUST match (case sensitive) the email provided to the EIC for your account.