A meeting architect is an individual that focuses on the potential meeting objectives, the meeting formats and designs, and the conceptual and practical building blocks to construct a meeting for better learning, networking and motivation in the participant population. A meeting architect also knows how to measure the meeting results up to its Return on Investment.
The meeting architect works in four (IDEA) phases:
Idintifying meeting objectives
Designing the meeting to support these objectives
Executing and guiding the meeting towards its objectives
Assessing the meeting results compared to the objectives
The meeting industry that exists today (2007) focuses mainly on the tourism and hospitality side of meetings: Travel, lodging and F&B. The meeting industry is professional in creating the shell where meeting architecture wants to help in building the substance.

This workshop is aimed at “elevating the conversation” for a select group of WEC participants. Specifically created for more advanced and ambitious in-house and third-party planners, it will provide an overview of the concept of meeting design. The meetings industry has been, up to this point in its history, primarily focused on excellence in meeting logistics. Meeting design, on the other hand, addresses the ways in which meetings can be more interactive, engaging, and strategic.

This Master Class includes an interview with Maarten Vanneste, CMM author of 'Meeting Architecture, a manifesto' (MSI 2008)

With intentions to transform the meetings industry, MPI and the MPI foundation have formed a creative alliance with the Masie Center & Learning Consortium, which boasts a worldwide membership of more than 1000 “learning leaders” from corporations such as Wal-Mart, Home depot, Target, American Express and 3M. “As more companies embrace the strategic role meetings play in achieving their business goals, an even greater emphasis will be placed on how to conduct a more productive meeting by employing new technologies,, re-examining the overall structure of meetings and enhanced knowledge and training for meeting professionals,” said Bruce MacMillan, MPI president and CEO.

Optimise your next event: engage with your audience.Attend one of Crystal’s training workshops to gain practical knowledge of how best to engage with your event audience and deliver a live experience with measurable results.



Discover

• When best to use an interactive solution and why.
• How to effectively apply interactive solutions to suit the event’s purpose.
• Through hands on experience, the use of interactive solutions to support live surveys, voting, more effective Q&A, brainstorming and breakout sessions.
• Through presentations of working case studies how other companies have benefited.

For further details and to book a free place visit: www.crystal-interactive.co.uk/workshops.

OUR FIRST EVER TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE HAS ARRIVED!    Download your free copy here...

In close cooperation with our members and HEADQUARTERS magazine, this MSI supplement is bigger and better than expected.
It started as an idea to create a chapter of a few pages in a magazine and it ended as a 24 page supplement, or is it a real issue of a magazine? Head Quarters’ Cecile Kock and Marcel Vissers made it all happen much faster than we expected. With their professional support and trust in the Meeting Support Institute, we were able to co-create a first ever 24 page stand alone magazine on Meeting Technology.

 

 

Rick Borovoy's blog, contains a number of exceptional statistical pieces on networking at meetings.
This unique research stands as an example for what our industry needs: reel scientific proof of the value of networking and the influence w meeting organiser has if the mind is set to it. 
Rick writes about networking analysis like "Taking Care of Newbies at User Conferences":

 

The Meeting Support Institute website has evolved into an interactive 2.0 website where meeting objectives play a central role. By registering to this website you get access to information about technology and all other tools to improve Learning, Networking and Motivating at meetings. This site is intended to be an open platform where all the Meeting Support Institute enthusiast can share their thoughts.