Videos, Webinars & Continuing Education

Phil Hansen provides a hands-on experience that brings the audience together to create a stunning and unexpected work of art. This fun, engaging and collaborative project furthers the experience of embracing challenges through teamwork and demonstrates the power of how our individual roles make up the whole ...

Everyone has a superpower – something they’re better at than anyone else. Helping employees discover and use their superpowers allows the company and its employees to thrive. Jodi Berg, PhD., knows this firsthand, both through her leadership of blending equipment manufacturer Vitamix and through her doctoral research ...

When you plan on hosting an event, one of the first questions that often comes to mind is how to fund it. This session is designed to help you navigate the give-and-take relationship that is necessary to attract the right sponsors for your events ...

In this session, digital marketing expert Zontee Hou shares case studies that demonstrate the four types of content that engage your audience, and she shows how to translate that engagement into business results. Learn key takeaways that will allow you to start planning and deploying more effective content marketing today ...

Success, especially in today’s fast-changing business environment, depends on our ability to make "creativity and innovation" a continuous process. Leaders want to know how their teams can rise above any challenge and succeed no matter what comes their way. Whether it’s to embrace change, overcome obstacles, sustain growth or take ...

Brand expert Denise Lee Yohn shows you how to achieve rock star brand status for your events. Drawing from case studies, analyses, and interviews with brand leaders from the world’s leading brands, she shows you what great brands do and how to achieve brand leadership ...

Vulnerability often has a negative connotation. This session will explore the different shapes vulnerability can take and will provide ways that employees and managers alike can create environments where people can bring their whole selves to work ...

Government regulations, enforcement, privacy and compliance are among the leading issues in the medical meeting management process. This session goes beyond legal analysis to basic understanding of how to resource and react to change ...

The goal of this program is to get you to think about negotiating differently, improving your negotiating skills by using the three Cs: convince, collaborate and create. This highly interactive program is designed to teach you how to apply these skills to everyday dealings both internally and externally ...

Join Charlotte Blank, Chief Behavioral Officer of Maritz, to learn about the psychological framework of the three types of experience utility, and how to apply behavioral insights to design memorable moments for the anticipating self, the experiencing self, and most importantly – the remembering self ...

Stories move people—not only to feel an emotion but to take action. When you use a well-crafted story in your presentations and pitches, you sell more effectively, get more commitment, cultivate greater camaraderie, inspire deeply and have more fun ...

This session will show you how engagement tools including digital engagement platforms, intentional design, fulfilling stakeholder missions, fear of missing out, attendee psychographics and influencer marketing can all work together to empower everyone contributing to your event. Done well, they will help grow its reach and resonance ...

What is all the talk about implicit bias? Through a mixture of presentation and interactive discussion, participants will explore the sources and impacts of unconscious biases as well as some concrete steps for reducing them ...

Savvy event organizers know how to harness the power of digital and social media marketing for events. They use crucial brand and experiential marketing tools that drive attendance, define and engage high-value target audiences extend the experience and build brand recognition ...

In this session, Miami University professor of entrepreneurship Chris Sutter will outline the key elements of a pitch and share underlying principles that make a pitch more effective ...

What can an event professional like you learn from Coachella, mega-churches, and great retail shopping plazas? Everything. Learn the six things you must do to turn your next meeting into an irresistible, live media experience that sells out ...

In this interactive talk, Natalie Nixon will explain how borrowing from the complex system of jazz music can shine light on practical ways to innovate from the inside-out in an organization ...

Part (ro)bot and part human, the event professional of the future needs to balance the digital with face to face in order to communicate effectively with participants of experiences ...

If you have data on even one member or customer in the EU, you need to understand the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or face fines when it becomes enforceable ...

Entrepreneur and award-winning magician Vinh Giang will perform several illusions, then invite you to offer your thoughts as to how he did them ...

Visit Houston President Mike Waterman will detail the group’s emergency response while the crisis was unfolding and how they managed to keep all 11 major conventions on schedule afterward ...

Learn how the events industry can pull insights from the eSports world to better meet the needs of our participants ...

Learn how strategies behind city planning can be applied throughout all aspects of your program, from engagement to networking ...

An esteemed panel will share successful case studies (driving results, growing membership, demand generation) and offer invaluable tips for you to create your own talking points ...