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News & Announcements
We are thrilled to announce that the MPI Potomac Chapter is a Rise Award Finalist as an Industry Advocate! The RISE Awards recognize community members and chapters from across the globe, celebrating the spirit of leadership, impact, and innovation. Celebrate with us at the WEC in Grapevine! Click here to see the 2020 RISE Awards Finalist! Call for the 2020-2021 Annual Awards Nominations Volunteerism is the heart of the MPI Potomac Chapter's success. We need your assistance to recognize our wonderful members whose contributions have helped the chapter achieve our goals! We are excited to announce the opening of nominations for our annual awards to be presented at the Evening of the Stars MPI Potomac Annual Meeting & Awards Reception. Nominate a colleague today! Nominations close May 4, 2020. Click here for more details! Watch "The 5 Steps to Earn Your CMP" Brought to you by the Career Development Committee Please email mpipotomaccd@outlook.com with any questions or to receive information on the next CMP Prep course.
Career Opportunities
Events Planner Associate, Conference and Event Services Summer 2020 - Communications & Events Internship (Paid) Spotlight
Pamela Bertelson
Meeting Planner
MedStar Health/SiTEL
Pamela Bertelson, CMP hails from Burlington, Wisconsin – Chocolate City, USA!
Pamela has been in the hospitality industry for 10 years and the best career advice she has ever received is to “treat everyone like an adult.”
Pamela enjoys vacationing anywhere in the Caribbean. She is currently a Meeting Planner at MedStar Health/SiTEL, but if money were no object, she would be a personal assistant for a drag queen, saying “I would happily carry any drag queen’s purse!”
Janice “JJ” Jackson
Events & Meeting Manager
National Football League Players Association
Janice Jackson is a Charter member of MPI's Association Planners Advisory Board and member of MPI Potomac. She has been with the National Football League Players Association for almost three years. Previously, she worked for the NBA, NFL and the Baltimore Convention Center. What she likes best about her position is to create engaging and unique experiences for her membership.
She joined MPI because through its many resources is so valuable in building relationships, broadening her industry education/knowledge and provides a variety of professioal developemnt opportunities.
When Janice is not working, she is traveling! She describes herself as a wanderlust and has been to all but one continent and has lost count on the countries. Her goal is to finish all 50 states inthe next two years.
When she was a kid, she dreamed of being a lawyer and she excelled in math, chemistry and physics.
The best piece of advice she has ever been given is "Yes is the answer, now what is the question?" She says that this viewpoint has developed within her a strong ability to be resourceful.
MPI Academy Webinars
Date: April 14. 2020 MPI will broadcast a day-long summit that will focus specifically on tools and skills relevant to moving forward during this unique global situation. We will connect with our industry leaders and peers from around the world in a live, 12-hour global broadcast and share learnings that are immediately actionable and relevant. *This is an MPI event and does not replace the face-to-face GMID event that the chapter will be holding this fall with PCMA Capital Chapter. Coronavirus Dialogue Series: Is it Force Majeure? Dealing with Coronavirus and other Calamities in your Contracts April 16 Coronavirus has captured the attention of the entire world, but the meetings and travel industry have been hit harder than most others. This session will discuss the coronavirus and the decisions meeting sponsors are having to make whether the event is a go or no-go and whether the force majeure clause is applicable. Coronavirus Dialogue Series: Event Risk Management in a Post-Pandemic World April 29 As the world recovers from the current crisis, and clients start to hold events again, identifying and reducing risk in the post-coronavirus period will be vital to ensure safety, reputation, financial viability. This session discusses the importance of an integrated and formalized risk management process in event planning, as well as some of the new risks and associated contingencies that are likely to be the new norm for events in the near future. |
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