Wednesday, AUGUST 17, 2022

10:00 am - 10:45 am

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Stop Scrolling, Start Connecting:
Using LinkedIn to Level Up Your Business Relationships

Event Trends 2022

Panel Discussion: Event Tech Talk

Designing Corporate Learning Experiences and Events that Inspire Creativity and Growth

Negotiate like a Ninja!

Main Stage

Main Stage

Main Stage

Main Stage

Main Stage

Candice Chan & Alison Slight

Leanne Calderwood

Melissa Deslauriers
Mark Awad
Adam Palleschi

Fran Dean-Bishop

Daniel Lewis

Stop Scrolling, Start Connecting:
Using LinkedIn to Level Up Your Business Relationships

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Main Stage

Are you still sitting in the backseat on LinkedIn, peering into the flurry of content, but unsure what to do next? LinkedIn can be an intimidating platform, but the joys of cultivating meaningful connections and relationships are at your fingertips. Join this session and learn how to go from passive observer to active participant.

10:00 am - 10:45 am

Leanne Calderwood

Event Trends 2022

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Main Stage

Back at CMEExpo again are Candice Chan and Alison Slight, founders of Candice & Alison Events Group. Don’t miss their highly-anticipated presentation so you can know what’s trending now and what’s trending next. This session will leave you with ideas and inspiration for how to incorporate the latest trends into your next event, as Candice and Alison share their wealth of knowledge and experience.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Candice Chan & Alison Slight

Panel Discussion: Event Tech Talk

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Main Stage

From basic meetings to large multi-day conferences, and everything in between, your event tech team is dedicated to helping you succeed. Let’s face it, most quotes submitted that support your tech needs aren’t written in plain English. Now’s your chance to ask questions, get real answers from the folks in the know. Join team bb Blanc as they help you better understand event technology and how it can enhance your events. Learn things to do, things not to do, and what’s next, as we aim to help you on the path to event success.

Moderator: Melissa Deslauriers, Director of Sales & Marketing, bb Blanc

Panelists:
Mark Awad, Director of Business Development, bb Blanc
Sandra Lijoi, Account Manager, bb Blanc
Adam Palleschi, Technical Director, bb Blanc
Alex Santini, Operations Manager, bb Blanc

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Melissa Deslauriers
Mark Awad
Adam Palleschi

Emerging from an unprecedented period of disruption, many organizations are now striving to redefine what their new work culture will be in-person, all remote, hybrid or combination. As these shifts take place, the opportunity to recreate, redesign and transform corporate learning environments and experiences into occasions that evoke boundless inspiration, creativity and wellbeing.

Learner Outcomes:

  • Learn how to use design-thinking to enhance corporate learning experiences and wellbeing.
  • Explore how your organization can adapt corporate learning environments to foster creativity and innovative thinking for adult learners.
  • Learn key mistakes to avoid in your designing corporate learning experience transformation.
  • Receive insights on how leading companies are reshaping learning experiences to cultivate trust, engagement, wellbeing and creativity for their people and cultures.

Designing Corporate Learning Experiences
and Events that Inspire Creativity and Growth

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Main Stage

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Fran Dean-Bishop

Negotiate like a Ninja!

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Main Stage

As an event professional, negotiating is part of the job. Whether you’re working with a new catering company, or sticking with a tried-and-true AV supplier, you’re constantly negotiating terms and conditions for your event. Join this session and learn the skillful approach to achieving the best deal possible. In this presentation international speaker, author, and entrepreneur Daniel Lewis will share 7 proven methods of how to approach a negotiation and most importantly how to leave the table with a mutually beneficial win that just so happens to be in your favour.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Daniel Lewis