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Registration & Continental Breakfast

ACTE Welcome & Update

Your Roadmap to Best-in-Class Strategic Meetings Management.

Can your meetings department compete with Best-in-Class organizations in your industry? Do you have a strategic roadmap for transforming your company’s meetings management efforts into a world class program? Discover how your meetings program compares to industry peers. Learn Best Practices and important KPIs. Develop a Step-by-Step Plan for building a Strategic Meetings Management Program

Presenter:
Kevin Young, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, StarCite, Inc.

Presenter:
Betsy Bondurant CMP, CMM of Bondurant Hospitality Consulting, LLC

Coffee Break

Travel Planning on the Fly

Emerging mobile technology offers the promise of flexibility, connectivity and productivity for business travelers. This session will provide an overview of new mobile applications and how the travel program can take advantage of new features for improved communication and trip seamlessness for its travelers.

Presenter:
Ray Pazerekas, Vice President, Business Development, GetThere

The Perfect Storm for Videoconferencing/Telepresence

At the same time that technology is offering more affordable virtual meeting options corporations are focused on reducing the cost of travel, concerns about the environmental footprint its travel and quality of life issues for business travelers creating a perfect storm for shifting many in-person business meetings to a virtual mode. This session will examine:

• Available technology options
• Policy/guidelines for virtual alternatives
• Integrating virtual options at POS

Presenter:
TBA

Networking Lunch