The Meetings Show, the UK’s leading event for the meetings
and incentives industry, has announced new creative partnerships to shake up
its education programme for 2023.
CEO of conferenceemcees.com Samme Allen and renowned
consultant, author and previous keynote speaker at The Meetings Show, Claus
Raasted – both experience design experts working with organisations, including
Google, Marriott, and Accenture – will work in partnership with The Meetings
Show to review and reenergise content and enhance the audience experience.
The partnership with conferenceemcees.com builds on the
strong relationship formed over several years, which has seen Allen and her
associates host and facilitate content sessions at The Meetings Show, both
virtually and in-person.
“We have been designing meetings with our clients for years
and realised there was an opportunity to create a specialist meeting design
division within the conferenceemcees.com group. And what better way of
launching it than in partnership with a top meetings and events trade show,”
said Allen.
“We’re excited to be working with The Meetings Show to
produce a programme of content that will ensure that attendees leave with
knowledge they didn’t know they needed, innovation to do and be better,
connections with relevant industry colleagues, and empowered to think, connect,
plan and live differently.”
The remit involves redesigning the pre-show conference for
hosted buyers to make it more of an immersive experience. This will include
working with ambassadors from associations, corporates and agencies to test bed
content ideas to ensure relevance and supporting speakers and content providers
to deliver content in unique formats that encourage interaction. The new approach
will tie into the ethos of this year’s show, which is encouraging events
professionals to #TakeTheTime to attend to ultimately save time.
Allen and Raasted will be supported by Sofia Rodrigues,
knowledge and meeting design consultant and president of the MPI Belgium
Chapter, who will lead speaker management.
Conferenceemcees.com professionals will also be
facilitating, hosting and moderating the content during the show, as well as
supporting speakers and the pre-event experience.
Jack Marczewski, portfolio event director of The Meetings
Show, TEAMS Europe and Business Travel Show Europe, said: “We are excited to
expand our partnership with conferenceemcees.com and bring on board three of
the brightest minds in meeting design to refresh and reimagine this year’s
content programme and engage our audience on a whole different level. We look
forward to sharing more details on the speaker line up very soon.”
Last minute speaker applications can be made until Monday 17
April 2023 through this link: www.themeetingsshow.com/speaker
There are various ways to register to attend The Meetings
Show 2023 (at ExCeL London on 28-29 June) which will be co-located with
Business Travel Show Europe and the TravelTech Show. To find out more about the
buyer, hosted buyer and visitor registrations options, visit: www.themeetingsshow.com/register.
A desire to travel led Holly Patrick to the business meetings and events world and she’s never looked back. Holly takes a particular interest in event sustainability and creating a diverse and inclusive industry. When she’s not working, she can be found rolling skating along Brighton seafront listening to an eclectic playlist, featuring the likes of Patti Smith, Sean Paul, and Arooj Aftab.
