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Meetings Quest Programming
Line-Up Features
a Who’s Who in the Meetings
and Events Industry
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Paralympian Chris
Waddell, DMAI Chair Martha Sheridan,
Former IAEE President
Steven Hacker, LinkedIn Co-Founder Eric Ly
and Leaders of the
Arizona Travel Industry Headline Meetings Quest in Mesa
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Los
Angeles, CA – April 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / Meetings
Quest, the nation’s longest-running series of educational and networking
events for association and corporate meeting planners, will be re-launched
May 6-7 in Mesa, Arizona, with a programming line-up that includes leaders
in the travel and tourism industry and several other notable presenters.
Hosted
by Visit Mesa, Meetings Quest has been scheduled to coincide with the U.S.
Travel Association’s National Travel and Tourism Week and will begin the
evening of Tuesday, May 6, with an opening celebration at the Mesa Arts
Center. The opening celebration, which will feature a “Taste of Mesa” culinary
and cultural experience, tours of the arts center and a welcome from Mesa
Mayor Alex Finter, will also serve as Arizona’s Travel Rally Day.
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To
mark National Travel and Tourism Week, Association News publisher
Timothy Schneider will host a panel discussion featuring Marc Garcia, president
and CEO of Visit Mesa; Sherry Henry, director of the Arizona Office of
Tourism; Debbie Johnson, president and CEO of the Arizona Lodging &
Tourism Association; and Martha Sheridan, chairperson of Destination Marketing
Association International. The session will be held on the main stage of
the Mesa Arts Center, the 1,571-seat Ikeda Theater.
On
the morning of Wednesday, May 7, Meetings Quest will offer two Learning
Lab sessions centered on meeting-planning technology and social media strategies
for event organizers. The innovative meetings-industry training will be
facilitated by Steven Hacker, former president of the International Association
of Exhibitions and Events, who now serves as “The Association Doctor” columnist
for Association News. Expert presenters include LinkedIn co-founder
Eric Ly, founder and CEO of Presdo.com; Michelle Wyatt, partner at Cadmium
CD; Michael Barnett, CEO of InGO; and Jake Zatzkin, marketing manager in
charge of digital strategies for the National Association of Broadcasters.
Also
on Wednesday, May 7, a soul-stirring keynote address will feature Chris
Waddell, the most decorated male skier in Paralympic history. Waddell hosted
NBC’s coverage of the 2014 Paralympic Games from Sochi, Russia, and has
won SportsTravel magazine’s Humanitarian of the Year Award for his
work through the One Revolution Foundation, which he founded. Waddell’s
keynote will be followed by an afternoon trade show at the Mesa Convention
Center featuring exhibitors interested in working with corporate and association
meeting planners.
Meetings
Quest was acquired last year by Los Angeles-based Schneider Publishing,
publishers of SportsTravel and Association News magazines
and organizers of the TEAMS Conference & Expo. The group travel markets
served by Schneider Publishing generate 106 million hotel room nights annually.
For
further information or to register for Meetings Quest, please visit MeetingsQuest.com
or call toll-free 877-577-3700.
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For
further press information, please contact Ann
Shepphird, or call 310-577-3700.
About
Schneider Publishing
Schneider
Publishing (SchneiderPublishing.com)
is the parent company of Association News (AssociationNews.com),
America’s most-read magazine for association executives, and SportsTravel
(SportsTravelMagazine.com),
the sports world’s event magazine. In addition to Meetings Quest (MeetingsQuest.com),
Schneider Publishing organizes the TEAMS Conference & Expo (TEAMSconference.com),
the world’s largest gathering of sports-event organizers, which will be
held November 10-13 in Las Vegas. The group travel markets served by Schneider
Publishing generate 106 million hotel room nights annually.
Association
News, SportsTravel and TEAMS are registered trademarks and Meetings
Quest is a trademark of Schneider Publishing. |
