Find inspiration, career-making connections and the expertise essential to modernizing your meeting strategy.

Between 500 and 700 international meeting and event professionals are expected to attend The European Meetings and Events Conference, taking place from 28 Feb - 2 March 2010 in beautiful Malaga, Spain.

Set in the birthplace of Picasso, the European Meetings and Events Conference is designed specifically with the European meetings industry in mind.

Why You Should Attend the European Meetings and Events Conference?
Find inspiration at the European Meetings and Events Conference (EMEC) in Malaga, Andalucia, Spain. Set in the birthplace of Picasso, EMEC is designed specifically with the European meetings industry in mind. You and your peers will gather here to learn from the foremost experts in our field, dialog with peers about current challenges, and paint a future for the industry in Europe. You will design personal path forward as well by crafting career-making connections and acquiring knowledge essential to modernizing your meeting strategy.

At EMEC, we will provide education that supports our industry’s ability to create well-executed meetings, speak the language of business, and drive positive short/long term meeting effectiveness and business results. Additionally, we will help establish new and strengthen existing industry network connections to facilitate quality networking and a platform to do business in Europe.

Attendance is Critical for Success!
By arming yourself with the latest research, newest trends, and most recent innovations in meeting management, you can stay effective in your career. Those businesses which invest in their people and provide them with opportunities to improve their skills and increase their knowledge inherently have the advantage over their competition.

Getting Approval from Your Management
Building a strong case for attendance is easier than you might think. First identify the specific challenges of your particular workplace. Then, review EMEC’s educational sessions and events and look for knowledge, ideas, and connection opportunities which address your individual business needs.

Benefits of Attending
During the recent economic turmoil, the meeting and event industry has dealt with great change –layoffs, corporate meeting cancellations, perception challenges. These difficulties have highlighted the need to refocus on what it is we really do: we drive business results.

At EMEC, you’ll learn to be better than ever at strategically managing your meeting and event portfolio, setting goals and objectives, controlling costs and risk, and measuring and proving the ROI.