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At IMEX 2024, SITE and the Incentive Research Foundation launched the invaluable report from the 2024 Incentive Travel Index (ITI) study. Join this program with FICP to dive into ITI insights specific to the financial services and insurance (F&I) industry and how the F&I industry compares to others. You’ll leave this program with data-backed talking points about incentive travel to bring to your leadership team as well as data on global trends in incentive travel to serve as a benchmark for your organization.

Embark on a transformative journey to chart your career path with clarity and confidence. This session is designed to help participants identify the pivotal steps in their professional development, harness their unique strengths, and utilize essential tools needed for advancement. As annual review season approaches, you will be equipped with strategies to effectively pitch your value and career aspirations to leadership, ensuring your goals are both recognized and supported.

Participants will then break into groups to discuss their career challenges with peers and a coach. This session is designed to help you develop a concrete career plan, strategize for annual reviews, or solve specific career-related problems. By engaging with others who share similar experiences, you'll gain valuable insights and personalized guidance to navigate your professional journey.

To maximize the benefits of this session, attendees will be sent the CliftonStrengths Assessment to complete beforehand. This will enrich the attendees’ experience and enable deeper, more meaningful career conversations during the program. This session is curated for rising professionals with less than 10 years of industry experience, but all career levels are welcome.

Join fellow FICP meetings professionals and hospitality partners to discuss budgeting best practices and 2025 expectations. Whether you're aiming to optimize event spend or benchmark against industry standards, this discussion is tailored to provide actionable insights to shape the success of your future programs. Participants will also delve into the latest data from FICP’s Summer Pulse Survey, released in August, which is focused on budgeting and 2025 projections for meetings and events.

Discussion topics include:

• Discussion and analysis of key findings from the FICP Summer Pulse Survey, focusing on trends, benchmarks and actionable insights for planning 2025 meetings and events.
• Strategies and tactics to effectively manage and optimize event budgets without compromising quality and attendee experience.
• How to benchmark your organization’s event budgets against industry norms and best practices to ensure competitiveness and efficiency.

Was your meeting budget just cut and now are backed in a corner with an event design challenge? There are numerous resources and approaches to improve meeting aesthetics and design that drive the success of your event. Join this interactive session that will feature tips and techniques to think differently and implement budget-friendly ideas to elevate your event. 

In this program, you will learn:

• How to generate and refine ideas for your events
• How to produce creative and cost-effective ideas
• How to put new ideas into practice

Join Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, Former Chair of FICP’s Board of Directors, as she brings together our meetings professionals members and hospitality partners to moderate a discussion about the future of meetings.

Inclusivity at an event is more important than ever. During this discussion, we will explore different strategies on how to create an inclusive environment that caters to a diverse range of needs.

Topics Include:

- How are you leveraging your partners to help with accessibility needs for your meetings?

- How are you communicating your accessible offerings to attendees? - In what ways are you accommodating neurodivergent attendees?

- How are you incorporating accessibility into your event design?

- How are you creating a menu that is inclusive for various dietary restrictions?

- And so much more!

You might be asking yourself, what will be shaking up the industry this year? How will the industry evolve? We have some predictions! Join Will Curran from Bizzabo as he dives into event trends on the horizon and how the events industry is evolving. From increasing networking engagement to leveraging technology in new ways, you will leave this session with the trends and tools to take back to your team and implement right away.

Learning Objectives:
• Think strategically when it comes to creating your events
• Walk away with trends to implement into your events right away
• Learn to think about how to apply existing trends in the world to events

Join Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, Former Chair of FICP’s Board of Directors, as she brings together our meetings professionals members and hospitality partners to moderate a discussion about the future of meetings. Celebrate Global Meetings Industry Day with us! GMID is an opportunity to showcase the value our industry brings year round to people and communities within our meetings. Let’s get together and chat to discuss why meetings matter and celebrate all your hard work.

Topics include:

• How are you demonstrating the value of your meetings?

• What benchmarks are you using to gauge attendee value and satisfaction?

• How are you presenting information to your stakeholders?

• How would your company define a valuable meeting?

• And so much more!

In today’s world, it’s imperative for event and hospitality professionals to establish and cultivate their own personal brands. It’s time to come out of the shadows, into the spotlight and create a bigger impact in your career, and we’re going to use the powerful platform, LinkedIn, to get you there! Join Leanne Calderwood, CMP, as she dives into strategies to amplify your influence on LinkedIn.

Learning Objectives:
• Determine why we should all build our own personal brands, separate from our organization's branding and how you can integrate your company’s brand and values into your own personal branding messaging
• Discover 5 Ways you can grow your brand, without social media
• Dive into the 3 activities on LinkedIn that when used together will help you amplify your brand, and increase your leads and opportunities.
• Understand 3 LinkedIn Profile accelerators that will help set you apart from the competition