WHY ATTEND

As you tackle a new year of bigger expectations on increasingly scrutinized budgets, whether you’re a meeting professional or a supplier, you need innovative approaches, solutions and resources. PCMA’s 2012 Convening Leaders delivers new and different ways to ignite your audience’s imagination and win their passionate advocacy. Just to whet your appetite, you’ll experience: 

• A 3 speaker opening session, that leaves you wanting more – which will be found in our in-depth Master Series
• Keynote experts that detail the shifts in your participant’s behaviors and desired experience and how you can put their findings to work for your own endeavors
• No more tracks of predicable, back-to-back 90 minutes sessions – You’ll create your own customized agenda
• 3,000+ opportunities to network (pre, during and post) and meet potentially priceless, career-long resources
• On-site registration, in many of the official housing hotels, for your convenience

ABOUT

This January, more than 3,000 meeting professionals will gather in San Diego to jump start a strategic roadmap for the new year and network with valued industry colleagues. PCMA’s Convening Leaders conference is the must-experience showcase to help you capture innovation for your own meetings and events. For 2012 we’ve blown up the expected and are delivering the unexpected – You’ll encounter new approaches at every turn – from keynotes that explore the seismic shifts in your meeting participant’s learning and social behaviors, personal and professional values and the experiences they desire in 2012 – to the mandatory requirements of onsite registration and food and beverage functions. You’ll depart Convening Leaders with a virtual briefcase of innovative solutions for your own programs.

Come January, if you want to capture innovation for your meeting and events, we’ll find you at Convening Leaders in San Diego. 

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