Meetings for Success

Along with many other international industry sectors, the value and benefits of the meetings industry are now being held to account in unprecedented ways. Similar to many others, IMEX is witnessing thousands of meetings and incentive travel events still taking place - and being planned - but also recognising that new economic, political and PR pressures are forcing organisations to think carefully about whether or where to hold them.

Now is the time for the industry to act. Meetings for Success aims to influence executive stakeholders on the importance and effectiveness of meetings and incentive travel to corporate business and prove the tangible worth of continuing to hold meetings, events, incentive travel and motivational programmes.

Our aim is to highlight the profit-boosting, morale-enhancing and efficiency-generating spin-offs of meetings and incentive travel. To that end, we want to make sure that these issues gain their rightful, long-term place at the Boardroom table.

"Constant and accelerating changes define the environment in which our industry is operating. That’s why Meetings for Success, IMEX's exclusive gathering of senior corporate planners, provides a unique platform of discussions and concrete ideas for actions”

Eric Rozenberg, CMP, CMM, President, Swantegy

IMEX Meetings for Success initiative, launched in 2009, is a unique annual event for high level corporate executives.

• The Meeting: The annual meeting at IMEX will provide the opportunity for face to face interaction and discussion between the group. This meeting focuses exclusively on round-table debates tailored specifically to address the professional concerns of corporate executives.
• The White Papers: Our high level panel discussions have led to two White Papers which are available to share widely and freely with the industry in an effort to share what has been learned and to generate further momentum.

Download the 2010 Meetings for Success White Paper

Download the 2009 Meetings for Success White Paper

• Join our LinkedIn Group: Throughout the year we also provide an on-line platform where IMEX will address the points raised during the meeting and provide a platform for discussion if members so wish. Join the LinkedIn Group

• View the 2010 Meetings for Success Forum attendees
• Aiding the 2010 Meetings for Success Forum was graphic facilitation company Cognitive Media whose ‘scribing’ and ‘visual mappings’ helped delegates to visualise their thinking, providing a useful and facilitative visual record of the meeting using pictures, diagrams, words, hierarchies and flows. The ‘visual capture’ from the 2010 Meetings for Success Forum can be viewed here.
• As a part of this initiative IMEX and JMIC have conducted a series of Corporate Meetings: Head to Head webinars.

View more information here.

To identify the challenges corporate meeting planners are facing under changing economic, political and PR pressures.

To share experiences and successes within the workplace and consider how to promote the power of meetings more effectively to corporate executives and corporate boards.

To identify what the meetings industry can do to assist corporate meeting planners?