MPI So Cal Connect

Why attend (WE)Con 2019? This unique three-day event is more than just your typical education conference!

- Suppliers – grow your business with a 45% planner attendance.

- Experience a redesigned hosted buyer experience leading to deeper connections.

- Find balance with sessions focusing on your mind, body and soul

- Keynote favorite Michael Dominguez is back with 2019’s hospitality forecast

- Earn up to 10 CEU credits

And so much more!

Network with industry peers, gain valuable business insights and hear from our keynote speaker – Michael Milken, Chairman of the Milken Institute – on important issues facing our industry today. Click here to read more about Michael Milken.

Hyatt Hotels CEO Mark Hoplamazian has spent the majority of his career working for one family, having joined the expansive empire of the Pritzker family in 1989. After more than a decade of working his way up the ladder, he was promoted to CEO after the death of the family patriarch Jay Pritzker, and he has guided the company through a host of challenging and prosperous times in the years since. Here, he offers his professional insights and discusses things he's learned during his time at the top of this far-reaching company.

By Rich Luna

 

What is the value of face-to-face meetings? Try more than US$1.03 trillion.

 

That’s the amount cited for the worldwide direct spend of the meeting and event industry and the power of face-to-face surpassed in 2017, according to the Global Economic Significance of Business Events.

 

The study from the Events Industry Council (EIC) and conducted by Oxford Economics is the first-ever comprehensive report on the impact of business events. The report was released at IMEX America, the biggest meeting and event industry trade show in the U.S., which this year attracted a record 13,000 participants and provided a US$19 million economic impact to the host city, Las Vegas.