The growth of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) as an international organization was a recurring theme of the fourth annual Professional Education Conference (PEC) in Lyon, France in May. MPI has achieved truly global status, with...

Some 33 educational seminars will be available at the 7th Annual Affordable Meetings Exposition & Conference, September 4 to 5 in Washington, DC...

She calls herself "the pig princess." She reads pig magazines, wears pig pins, displays a Miss Piggy doll in her office, and has a pig-shaped doorstop. "I feel very attached to these animals," says Arlene Davie, executive vice president, Travel...

We were going to use a fiberoptic land line to handle the video transmission, but there was a nursing strike the week before the conference, and the cable installers wouldn't cross the picket line. So we brought in a truck with a dish and bounced...

The Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) has appointed William J. Myers, CAE, CMP, formerly vice president and convention manager of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), as its chief operating officer, a newly created...

The long-awaited Delta addition to the Opryland Hotel Convention Center in Nashville arrived on June 1, right on time. Some 3.7 million room-nights are already contracted through the year 2013 at what is now the world's largest hotel/convention...

Can you imagine thousands of cadaveric specimens in a convention hall? Of course not, and neither could the American Urological Association (AUA). Instead of using specimens, urologists at the 1994 meeting in San Francisco practiced in virtual...

Anna Lee Chabot, director of meetings and assemblies for the Ottawa-based, Royal College, Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, is the new president-elect for Meeting Professionals International (MPI). When she assumes the presidency in the summer of...

HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS Thomas R. Schedler, CAE, has been appointed executive director of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, based in Park Ridge, IL. Most recently, Schedler was president of Schedler and Associates, a management...

Anna Lee Chabot, director of meetings and assemblies for the Ottawa-based Royal College, Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, is the new president-elect for Meeting Professionals International (MPI). When she assumes the presidency in the summer of...