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The Business Events Industry Student Challenge engages competing teams on their knowledge and understanding of the industry to create and propose a successful event. The goal of this challenge is to have a proposal for a meeting, incentive trip, exhibition, tradeshow, consumer show, convention, conference, congress or product launch.
This year’s theme is: Data Security
The teams may choose to focus on any of the following clusters in relation to the competition’s parameters:
• Media & Digital Content
• Hybrid Events and Broadcasting
• Blockchain
• Wearables
• Mobile Apps
• Mobile Check-In
• Financial and Professional Services
• Transportation
• Piracy
• Phishing
Students will be prejudged based on their proposals. The panel of judges will score the proposals, narrowing them down to the top five. The top five teams will then be invited to present their final proposal, virtually via Zoom, to the panel; this will include a 5-minute Pitch Presentation and a 5-10 minute Q&A session. These presentations will be broadcast live to the general public.
The winning team will then be awarded a fully sponsored trip to attend the Convening Leaders and invited to present their pitch at PCMA University.
Timeline:
August 6th – Registration Opens
October 15th – Deadline for submission of proposals
November 9th – Judging concludes. Finalists are announced.
November 29th – Virtual presentation to judges and audience. Winner announced immediately following.
January 6th – Winning team presents at PCMA Convening Leaders
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The panel of judges will include the following industry leaders:
Sherrif Karamat, CAE
President and CEO, PCMA
Eduardo Chaillo, CMP, CMM, CASE
CEO, Global Meetings and Tourism Specialists LLC
Kristin Malek, PhD, CMP, DES
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Angie Ranalli, CMP
Vice President of Sales – Midwest Region, San Diego Tourism Authority