Catching Up toTechnology

Ed Simeone, CMP, is Meeting Professionals International's 1999-2000 chairman of the board. In September, after more than 20 years of experience in corporate event management (most recently at EMC Corporation, a computerized storage manufacturer in Hopkinton, Mass.), he accepted a new position as executive producer of meetings and events for Fusion Productions LLC--and became a telecommuter. Who better to ask about the changing role of meeting executives in the new millennium? We caught up