Meeting Support Institute

A presentation for a meeting industry audience.
It informs about technology based on the Meeting Support Institute membership.
Ideal as a pannel with technology providers.
Sam Smith coordinates and has a presentation to introduce the topic.
Each panelist gets time for a short presentaton.
A Q&A session is moderated, facilitated by Sam Smith.

Corbin Ball, CSP, CMP, MS is an international speaker, consultant and writer helping clients worldwide use technology to save time and improve productivity. With 20 years of experience running international technology meetings, he now is a highly acclaimed speaker with the ability to make complex subjects understandable and fun. His articles have appeared in hundreds of national and international publications and he has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fast Company, PC Magazine and others. Corbin serves or has served on numerous hotel, corporate, convention bureaus and association boards. He is the only person to have received both the MPI International Supplier of the Year and the MPI International Chapter Leader of the Year awards.

AMI is a multi-disciplinary 15-member consortium dedicated to the research and development of technology that will augment communications between individuals and groups of people. Partners in the AMI project conduct research focused on the use of advanced signal processing, machine learning models and social interaction dynamics to improve human-to-human communications, particularly during business meetings between co-located and remote (virtual) participants. The research is leading to the preparation of technologies which will be included in commercial solutions of the future. Solutions with AMI technologies will enhance the experience of meetings and enrich corporate knowledge management systems, enabling enterprise assets to include searchable and intelligent meeting archives.

facilitator guides group processes to bring forth the expertise already existent in the group. In doing so, the facilitator seeks to strengthen groups by allowing them to perceive and discipline their unique strengths and weaknesses. The nature of the service the facilitator offers is catalytic. For both the facilitator and the coach, it is the performance of the client(s) that is the subject of their intervention. This involves a detailed focus on the way individuals and groups interact.Facilitation focuses primarily on processes in which information is exchanged among the participants in a group. The facilitator 'eases' this exchange, using structured techniques and communication skills. The facilitator knows how to draw the answers out of those who know them best - the people doing the job. The facilitator asks questions, guides a group to consensus, and uses information to demonstrate the need for action.

How do you know what Return on Investment your meetings and events provide to different stakeholders? Do your attendees, sponsors, exhibitors and organization get good value for their money? The European Event ROI Institute represents the ROI Institute Inc. and the Phillips ROI Measurement Model in the meetings and event industry in Europe. The Phillips model has been developed by Jack Phillips for over 20 years in the field of human relations and training. More than 2000 practitioners have been certified by the ROI Institute, including 70% of the Fortune 500 companies. This wealth of knowledge and experience is now being introduced to the meetings and event industry.

The European Event ROI Institute

Often decisions about educational topics, program participants, room setups and session formats are made without considering their impact on achieving the meeting’s educational goals. Join this facilitated discussion and come prepared to share success stories, horror stories, best practices and questions. After participating, you will be able to explain the basic principles of adult learning and how to factor them into the educational design of a meeting, describe the physical attributes of a meeting room that encourage or discourage learning and demonstrate best practices in selecting and preparing volunteer program participants

Tyra Warner Hilliard, CMP,  Associate Professor, Department of Tourism & Convention Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Maryland Pkwy Box 456023 4505 Las Vegas, NV Bus: +1 (702) 895 5407

Learning for Business Impact Convener of Learning 2006

Elliott heads The MASIE Center, a Saratoga Springs, NY think tank focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. He leads the Learning CONSORTIUM, a coalition of over 200 Fortune 500 companies cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies.
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The MASIE Center
Saratoga Springs, NY

Music’s power has been both recognised and documented, certainly since the time of the Ancient Greeks. The power of face-to-face meetings, as opposed to communication by various other means - even aided by a battery of technological developments – is also widely accepted.  This is despite it frequently being noted that meetings can take an inordinate amount of simultaneous time from high-level personnel and can be extremely inefficient - it even being remarked that, if you don’t want results, have endless meetings about a matter!  So, if we have a goal of efficient and effective meetings – why not judiciously use music as an aid in the process?

Working with Ed Bernacki Ed Bernacki's presentations are colourful and insightful. His style is informative and designed to get people to think in new ways. He often opens presentations by asking, "How many of you attend workshops or conferences like this, make notes, and never look at them again?" Generally one half of every audience admits - "yes that's me!" He then provides insights for listening and recording ideas in new ways. His presentations are designed to be colourful, interesting and non-traditional. You can download a sample of recent handout version of a presentation. Workshops - the ideal setting is round tables with participants expecting to participate. A data projector and screen are required.

Ib Ravn, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Learning Lab Denmark, of the Danish University of Education, Copenhagen. He heads the research group ”Facilitating Knowledge Processes” that designs, facilitates and tests processes for learning and knowledge sharing at meetings, conferences, networks and in organizations generally. He was directed the projects ”The Learning Meeting” and ”More Effective Meetings” that were conducted in collaboration with some of Denmark’s largest corporations, among them Nokia Denmark, Novozymes and Danske Bank. His doctorate is in Social Systems Sciences from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.