Eight
education tracks which include ‘industry trends’, ‘personal
development’ and ‘sustainability’ define IMEX in Frankfurt’s
free professional development and education programme for 2013.
Based
on current hot topics, some of the most popular sessions are set to
include: “How to keep the lawyers out – Contract Management” by
IAPCO and PCMA; a Strategic Meetings Management co-creation workshop
led by Peggy Hemphill of Your Corporate Source and Betsy Bondurant of
Bondurant Consulting; “How Bar Camps and Hybrid Events can enrich
Meetings” by Brita Moosmann of Yieldforprofit and Wolf-Thomas Karl,
Partner, Karl & Karl; “How to create a social media strategy”
by Christine Fuchs and Gerrit Heijkoop of Casehunters and “You’re
Hired! Powerful Interview Techniques to Get the Job,” by Avinash
Chandarana, Global Learning and Development Director, MCI.
Shorter
education sessions and campfires at IMEX take place on the
Inspiration Centre, Sustainability Hub, Tech Tap or the new
Networking Hub (which includes wellbeing advice) on the show floor.
Longer seminars all take place outside core business hours and occur
in dedicated rooms in Halls 8 or 9 of Messe Frankfurt.
A
new shape to the German language education programme, which is
delivered by founding partners the German Convention Bureau (GCB),
sees speaker bureau, Speakers Excellence, providing the majority of
German presenters. The German education content will be based on a
different theme each day, with ‘compliance’ the key topic for
Tuesday, ‘social media’ on Wednesday and ‘personal development’
on Thursday. As a part of the new programme, a German keynote session
will take place each morning at 9.00hrs on the topic of the day. In
addition, with the issue of compliance currently dominating the
German meetings and events industry, IMEX will also be running a new
Compliance Clinic in co-operation with Veranstaltungsplaner.de.
Two
important and targeted education and networking events also take
place the day before IMEX opens. The show’s hallmark Association
Day, which provides tailored education and networking for association
executives, is on Monday 20th May and runs concurrently with the new
Exclusively Corporate @IMEX, which is a two-track private event for
corporate executives and corporate meeting planners.
Says
Carina Bauer, CEO of the IMEX Group: “The quality and variety of
our education programme has become more and more important to the
wider business value provided by IMEX and, for that reason, each year
we devote a lot of resources to getting the mix and the content
right. With the help and contribution of many excellent industry
partners and experts we are proud to present a well-structured,
appealing and also comprehensive programme which covers those subject
areas that matter most for
business success in
2013 and beyond.”
