TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2022

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Wednesday, AUGUST 17, 2022

Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Main Stage

Join us at the Main Stage on August 16 at 9:30 AM and help us celebrate and give a warm welcome to the latest class to be inducted into the CMEExpo Hall of Fame.

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Entrepreneurship, Events, and Eats: In Conversation with Trish Magwood

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Main Stage

Join us as cookbook author, food and lifestyle authority, and entrepreneur Trish Magwood takes the main stage and has an open and entertaining chat about the truth of entrepreneurship, the power of content in your events, and the world of food. Take part in this interactive and personal look into the ideas, inspirations, and challenges you can learn from to better serve your events and the experiences you create.

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Trish Magwood

Event Contracts Are Always Trending

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Main Stage

Event contract specialist Heather Reid is back for CMEExpo 2022. As always, her session will focus on the foundational tool we use to craft events – contracts. Leave this exciting presentation knowing the traditional, new, and should-be-there clauses that you need to know in order to negotiate balanced contracts in this ever-changing reality.

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

Heather Reid

How to Win With Influencer Marketing as a Destination or Venue

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Main Stage

During this exciting session, learn all about influencer marketing success stories, and how brands and companies have successfully activated influencers to take their business to new levels. After this session, you’ll know how you can use influencer marketing to make your destination or venue the one everyone wants to visit and do business in.

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Tom Yawney

Myth Busting LinkedIn: Discovering How LinkedIn Can Change Your Brand and Elevate Your Business.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Main Stage

While LinkedIn is viewed as the world’s most powerful B2B professional platform, many misconceptions exist about LinkedIn that may be holding you back from using it to your career advantage. In this session, you’ll learn more about this mystical platform, bust through some of the myths that exist, and start putting the platform to work for you.

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm

Leanne Calderwood

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