LIVE 2010 Houston
Plan Your Meetings presents the PYM LIVE 2010 Houston
Our theme for 2010 is “Everything you always wanted to know about meeting/event planning, but never had the chance to ask.” Inspired by the 2010 PYM Big Book of Answers and requests we’ve had from meeting planners across the country, we’ve redesigned our PYM LIVE Events to run shorter, faster and deliver more knowledge, peer-to-peer networking and real-life solutions for the challenges you’re facing now.
In just a few hours, you can gather destination research, make important contacts and learn how to work smarter, not harder. Plus, as your takeaway, you’ll receive a series of industry “best practices” whitepapers on topics ranging from managing your budget and planning green meetings to creative team-building and contract negotiation tips. If you’re working on gaining your certification, attending a PYM LIVE Event also will help you earn CEUs toward your CMP or CSEP designation.
Time is an important commodity and meeting planners are juggling more than ever, so if you need help justifying the time spent with us away from the office, we’ll be happy to provide you with a sheet of talking points and testimonials.
Our 2010 PYM LIVE Event will be on September 1, 2010 at the Downtown Aquarium from10 a.m. – 1 p.m.. Like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel, you can come for the whole event, or just the parts you’re most interested in. Registration is $25 and a networking lunch will be followed after education. If you’re unable to attend, you can still register to meet with our local and out-of-town exhibitors as your schedule permits, by setting up an appointmenthere. If you can’t make it, but still would like a packet of best practices whitepapers, you can purchase them for $10 by clicking here.
Check out the list of exhibitors
Your referral is our biggest compliment! If you feel others in your network could benefit from this event, please forward this information to them. We are rewarding you with a $5 rebate for each planner who attends our events as a result of your recommendation. Please ask your associates to place your name in the “referred by” box when they register.
At your service,
Lisa Kraus
Director of Marketing & Audience Development
Lisa.Kraus@PlanYourMeetings.com EDUCATION SESSIONQuestion & Answer Discussion
The educational theme for 2010 is “Everything you always wanted to know about meeting/event planning, but never had the chance to ask.” We’re creating a very special breakout session, at which our meetings experts are prepared to tackle all of your questions and challenges. You will be able to ask your questions live, submit via Twitter (follow tweets with #pym2010), by text messaging, and/or when you register.
CMP Application Meeting Management: 1 hr/10 = .10 points
CMP Recertification Application: 1 hr = 1 point
CSEP = 1 Professional Industry Point
Lynne Tiras, CMP
Lynne Tiras, CMP is President of International Meeting Managers, Inc. (IMM), a full service meetings, events, and association management company headquartered in Houston with offices in Chicago. The company was formed in 1986 by Lynne, who has over thirty years of meeting and event management experience. IMM celebrates its 24th anniversary this year!
Lynne is Past President of the Houston Chapter of Meeting Professionals International and was named their Meeting Planner of the Year for 1988-1989. Lynne served on the international level of Meeting Professionals International’s Advisory Council of Special Interest Groups for Independent Meeting Professionals from 1992 through 1998 and served as chair of the council for 1994-1995.
Lynne is a frequent writer for industry publications and has been a speaker at both Meeting Professionals International’s Professional Educational Conference and the World Education Conference and other industry meetings.
Currently, Lynne serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau and on the Board of Trustees of Goodwill Industries of Houston, and the Advisory Board of Plan Your Meetings. Lynne co-founded the Alliance of Meeting Management Companies (AMMC), an organization of CEOs of meeting planning companies.
Lynne has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards for Meeting News, Successful Meetings and Convention South publications. Additionally, Lynne served on Certain Software’s Advisory Board, a leading development company of software applications for meeting and event professionals, the Tourisme Montréal Meetings and Incentives Advisory Board and is a past member of the Meetings Advisory Board of the InterContinental Hotels Group.
Jeffrey W. Rasco, CMP
A veteran meeting professional with over a quarter century of experience, Jeff Rasco, CMP is President ofAttendee Management, Inc., providing online registration solutions and housing, travel, and e-marketing services. Jeff is a popular speaker on technology and its impact on meetings, and especially those people who plan and support them (especially those running their own businesses). He has written dozens of articles and columns on meeting technology, and is frequently quoted as an expert in the trade press.
He has received a number of professional honors, most notably Meeting Planner of the Year from Meeting Professionals InternationaI in 1996, their international Chapter Leader of the Year in 1994, the MPI Texas Hill Country Chapter’s Supplier of the Year in 2005 and Houston MPI’s Planner of the Year in 1987.
He has served on MPI’s International Board of Directors, the MPI Foundation Board of Trustees, and on the boards of the Texas Hill Country and Houston Area MPI Chapters.
His goal is to increase the quality of meetings and elevate the strategic value of meeting professionals through the intelligent use of technology. Contact Jeff at jrasco@attendeenet.com. Follow Jeff on Twitter,@JeffRasco.
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