August Chapter Program - Event Logistics
August 15, 2024
Bars & Rec, Pabst Best Place, The Brewhouse Inn & Suites Milwaukee, WI
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2024 Chapter Awards Gala - Registration Open!
September 26, 2024
Heidel House Hotel & Conference Center - Green Lake, WI
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Overall Excellence Chapter Award

 

 

Virtual Learning & Wisconsin Member Video Chat Series

Note:  Would you like to moderate one of these Wisconsin ZOOM Chats?  Contact us!

Trust_Meetings_badgeDuring the ban on gatherings, MPI Wisconsin is partnering with the MPI Academy to offer EIC approved programs for our members.

PLUS, each Academy program is followed by a one hour Zoom chat with your Wisconsin MPI colleagues!

All programs are free for MPI Members!

All MPI Academy programs receive EIC credit!

Attend the program, the chat or both!   We'd love to see you!

 

August 18 (Tuesday Program) - Claim Your Seat at the Table: Why and How to Impact your Association’s Virtual Event Strategy

1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

Learning Outcomes:

  • Recognize the key players and decision makers in their organization’s approach to virtual events.
  • Identify they key strengths that planners bring to virtual event planning.
  • Discuss opportunities to advocate for an ongoing role in the association’s virtual event strategy.

Attend one or both!

 


July Programs

July 21 (Tuesday Program)  -   A New Path Forward for Sustainable Events

1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

Learning Outcomes:

  • Gain an understanding of event sustainability practices and areas of focus, including venue and accommodation selection, F&B, material procurement, engagement and communication, A/V, and community.
  • Identify opportunities to implement sustainable practices into events and adapt previous practices to adhere to new post COVID guidelines.
  • Discover new innovations and technologies to propel sustainability forward for the future of our industry.

Attend one or both!

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July 23 (Thursday Program)  -   Best Practices in Hotel Re-openings Post COVID-19

1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Learn what steps hoteliers are taking to keep meetings and events safe.
  • Discover resources for hoteliers in regards to best practices.
  • Understand the booking trends the hotels are seeing for the next 12 months.

Attend one or both!

 

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August Programs

August 4 (Tuesday Program)  - Event Marketing Strategies for Virtual and Hybrid Events

1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Marketing

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the eight essential planning steps of event marketing
  • Learn engagement strategies for virtual and hybrid events
  • Leverage technology, data and design methods to deliver ROI and with measurement and revenue attribution

Attend one or both!

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August 7 (Friday Program)  -   Pandemic Adaptation & Planning via Neuroscience for Meeting Planners

1 Clock Hour | Domain A:  Strategic Planning 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Learn about the neuroscience-based evidence for how meeting planners and other professionals tend to make poor choices in the face of slow-moving major disruptions like the pandemic
  • Discover techniques to evaluate and shift your work as a meeting planner to adapt to and plan effectively for the long-term impact of the pandemic
  • Develop a long-term strategic plan to navigate successfully the disruptions caused by the pandemic for your meeting planning

Attend one or both!

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August 18 (Tuesday Program)  -  Claim Your Seat at the Table: Why and How to Impact your Association’s Virtual Event Strategy

1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

Learning Outcomes:

  • Recognize the key players and decision makers in their organization’s approach to virtual events.
  • Identify they key strengths that planners bring to virtual event planning.
  • Discuss opportunities to advocate for an ongoing role in the association’s virtual event strategy.

Attend one or both!


Past Programs

June 16 (Tuesday Program)  -   Adaptation, The New Competitive Advantage

1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand foundational Adaptation theory and how it can apply to various industries and businesses.
  • Identify what are the signals in the market that can impact how we operate?
  • When we are overwhelmed with changing information, how can our managers pick up the right signals to understand and harness change?

Attend one or both!

 

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May 21 (Thursday Program)  -   Pivoting from Paralyzed to Productive; Taking Control of Your Narrative and Rewriting Your Reality

Attend one or both!

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May 26 (Tuesday Program)  -   Risk Management Planning

Attend one or both!

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June 5 (Friday Program)  -   Future of Meetings: Creative New Strategies from Hotels, AV Companies & Design Agencies

Attend one or both!

 

 

April Dates:  8 - 16 - 29

Wednesday, April 8

Space to Re-Think. Taking back control on COVID19 and Revenue Generation

Webinar: 
1:00PM - 2:00PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
2:00PM - 3:00PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat

 

Thursday, April 16

Is it Force Majeure? Dealing with Coronavirus and other Calamities in your Contracts

Webinar: 
1:30PM - 2:30PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
2:30PM - 3:30PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat

 

Wednesday, April 29

Event Risk Management in a Post-Pandemic World


Webinar: 
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
12:00PM - 1:00PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat

 


 

 

May Dates: 1 - 8 - 14 - 21

Friday, May 1

Food Safety - What is the New Normal and How do Meeting Planners Need to Prepare?

Webinar: 
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
12:00PM - 1:00PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat

 

Friday, May 8

Meeting Executive Re-Think Tank on Lessons Learned & Continued Impact 

Webinar: 
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
12:00PM - 1:00PM

 

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat

 

Thursday, May 14

Leading Virtual Teams Effectively and Productively


Webinar: 
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
12:00PM - 1:00PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat

 

Thursday May 21

 Pivoting from Paralyzed to Productive; Taking Control of Your Narrative and Rewriting Your Reality


Webinar: 
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
12:00PM - 1:00PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat

 

 

Wednesday, April 8

Space to Re-Think. Taking back control on COVID19 and Revenue Generation

Webinar:
1:00PM - 2:00PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
2:00PM - 3:00PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat

Thursday, April 16

Is it Force Majeure? Dealing with Coronavirus and other Calamities in your Contracts

Webinar: 
1:30PM - 2:30PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
2:30PM - 3:30PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat


 

Wednesday, April 29

Event Risk Management in a Post-Pandemic World


Webinar: 
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Wisconsin ZOOM Chat:
Immediately Following
12:00PM - 1:00PM

Cost:
FREE!

Academy Program Details

Attend one or both!

  1. Register for Program at MPI Academy

  2. Register for the ZOOM Wisconsin Member Chat




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