IncentiveWorks 2012

Introducing IncentiveWorks Concierge

IncentiveWorks — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:25:48 +0000

The NEW IncentiveWorks Concierge provides, personal service for planner/buyer attendees to help them prepare for the show, make appointments, and do business!

Get ready…IncentiveWorks Concierge opens April 2, 2012.

IncentiveWorks Has Gone Mobile!

IncentiveWorks — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:29:14 +0000

Get information on the conference and trade show at your fingertips on any smartphone or tablet. Exhibitor listings, floorplan, session descriptions and more.

Mobile event guide sponsor

Sweet Treats at IncentiveWorks

IncentiveWorks — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:25:27 +0000

To celebrate IncentiveWorks’ 20th anniversary, Wish A Cake, a Toronto-based bakery has partnered with IncentiveWorks as the show’s official cupcake sponsor.

Attendees can look forward to complimentary cupcakes created especially for this event by Sheryl Ngo and her team at Wish A Cake.

Wish A Cake offers 11 signature cakes, such as red velvet cake, luscious banana cake, purple yam cake and mochaccino cake, as well as cupcakes and favours. The decadent chocolate cake and cupcakes are the company’s bestsellers.

The bakery whips up special creations for large corporate clients as well as for more intimate and social gatherings such as weddings and birthday parties. Corporate logoing is available on all cakes, cupcakes and sweet treats. Prices vary with complexity of design. Signature cakes require a lead time of 2-3 days.

For more information, please visit Wish A Cake’s site or stop by booth 2218 at IncentiveWorks, August 23-24. http://www.wishacake.ca/index.html

Terri Breining Leads Two-Day Workshop for Senior Planners

IncentiveWorks — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:23:59 +0000

This year, Terri Breining, CMP, CMM, will lead a two-day leadership workshop for senior planners at IncentiveWorks 2011.

This IncentiveWorks education session will give planners with 10-plus years experience the opportunity to create work environments that are more successful, profitable and enjoyable.

Learner outcomes:

Identify blocks to effective leadership and how to handle them
Determine how you can increase your influence
Enhance your own success by preparing and enabling those around you

The two-day workshop format is a result of a partnership between IncentiveWorks and MPI. Breining is an MPI Platinum Series Speaker.

A veteran of the meetings industry, Breining has been responsible for producing meetings around the globe since 1976. She is a principal with Breining Group LLC, whose focus is facilitating, training and consulting in the meeting industry; an adjuct faculty member for universities throughout Southern California; a sought-after speaker, and co-author of Return on Investment in Meetings and Events.

She served MPI as the Chairwoman of the International Board of Directors in 2003-04, and she has been included on the list of â€œMost Influential People in the Meeting Industryâ€ by Meeting News Magazine. Most recently, she was inducted into the Convention Industry Council’s Hall of Leaders for 2010.

Earn CMP Clock Hours for ALL Education Sessions

IncentiveWorks — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:22:22 +0000

IncentiveWorks’ in-depth education workshops meet the Convention Industry Council’s (CIC) time requirements for continuing education sessions and may qualify towards a planner’s certification/recertification.

To qualify:

Register and attend any of the IncentiveWorks education sessions
Keep your registration receipt
Keep the session descriptions printed in the IncentiveWorks showguide
Fill out the CMP Recertification Continuing Education form downloadable from conventionindustry.org
Match the session to an area in the CIC Blueprint
Submit by the Oct. 14, 2011 deadline for recertification

For more information, visit the CIC’s website.

Ken Wong, IncentiveWorks highest rated speaker ever is back for 2011!

IncentiveWorks — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:20:19 +0000

His session on the Art of Spin.

Josh Linkner, an IncentiveWorks Keynote has recently launched a new book

IncentiveWorks — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:18:51 +0000

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