As The Meetings Show prepares to open its doors for the seventh year, the show is shaking up its education programme to deliver more than 40 hours of learning in a variety of exciting new formats.
The theme of the education programme will be ‘The Planner Journey’, covering the seven key stages of event planning: Sharpening Your Event Skills, Creating and Communicating the Vision, Textbook Planning, Making Your Events Memorable, Getting People There, The Bigger Picture and The Pat on the Back.
“This will be industry education like you’ve never seen it before!”
To optimise engagement and keep the content fresh, sessions won’t just be delivered as lectures or panel debates – attendees will be able to get hands-on and fully immersed with the innovative new programme.
On Wednesday 26 June, 9.50-10.50, the session ‘Sustainability on Trial’ will feature a dynamic courtroom debate, where the prosecution will present the case that event organisers need to step up and make their events more sustainable, while the defense will argue that the responsibility should fall to suppliers, venues and destinations. The audience will be able to interact before a panel of judges makes the final judgment on the case.
Later in the day (13.50-14.50), Take the Mike will be exploring the burning issue of staff retention through the medium of drama – professional actors will be presenting scenarios around retention and exploring situations which can encourage your best talent to stay and keep them engaged with your organization and its values.
On Thursday 27 June, ‘Brief. Process. Pitch’ (12.30-13.30) will be an interactive session where attendees can work as a team on a real brief, coming up with a workable concept and budget outline, before pitching the idea – all the while learning what makes a successful proposal and pitch.
Other session to look forward to include the LEGO Serious Play method, a high-energy moving chairs session and a ‘Recipes for Success’ cooking class, all aimed at inspiring attendees when planning their next event.
