Mission Event Software, a leading technology provider to the MICE industry, specialising in online registration, specialist mobile phone applications and networking solutions for over 15 years has joined forces with EventBidder.com, to promote the use of their complimentary online MICE services.

EventBidder.com, a global MICE service today used by 15,000 buyers in 120+ countries to send MICE requests to Hotels and DMCs for online bidding. In only 3 years, Eventbidder.com has positioned itself as the fastest growing and leading online MICE request for proposal service, for buyers, hotels and DMC's from around the world. 

Simon Young CEO of Mission Event Software comments:
"Using online resources to win and organise MICE business is essential in today's business environment. Having a reciprocal arrangement means all our clients can benefit from using online resources at reduced rates." 

The Meeting Support Institute would like to welcome it's newest member AMIANDO!

Amiando is one of Europe's largest event organization platforms. They help people to organize and manage their events online. Thousands of private and public events are organized on amiando every month, including events like leweb3, DLD as well as several celebrity and charity parties.

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.