It’s time for answers and results for your specific problems. The Annual Meeting & Expo doesn’t just have something for everyone, it has what you need.
View learning labs by professional interest.
CEOs
Component Relations professionals
Finance & Business Operations professionals
Government Relations professionals
International
IT professionals
Legal/HR professionals
Marketing & Communication professionals
Meetings professionals
Membership professionals
Nonprofit professionals
Small-staff professionals
CEOs: A CEO-only track with 5 sessions, plus many other CEO-related sessions including
- CEO Only: Association Alliances, Partnerships, and Mergers;
- CEO Only: It's Not about Rightsizing…It's about Reshaping;
- CEO Only: Reclaim Hundreds of Executive Hours;
- CEO Only: Sail Upstream: Aligning Organization and Operations with Strategy;
- CEO Only: Systemic Governance Change;
- The Association That Innovates Integrates: The Senior Executive’s Role;
- Beyond Diversity: Building an Inclusive Environment;
- Career Management for Senior Level Staff;
- Define Success in the CEO Role Before You Take the Job;
- Discussion Forum for Executive Management Staff;
- Do You Have What It Takes to be a "Recession CEO"? Building the Capacity to Lead in Turbulent Times;
- Emotional Intelligence - The Leadership Spark that Ignites Association Excellence;
- Flat is the New Up: Lessons Learned from the Great Recession;
- Get the Most from Your Board: For Small Staff CEOs
- Leadership Isn’t Rocket Science: Six Ways to Boost Your Leadership IQ;
- Learning from History: Partnership Lessons from Lewis & Clark;
- Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over It!;
- The Situation Room: Practical Perspectives on Real World Executive Situations;
- To Tell the Truth;
- Virtual Board Meetings: Transition from Onsite to Online; and
- What CEOs Need to Know about IT;
Component Relations professionals
- 2010: The Year of the Community Manager;
- Connecting Industry Associations Through Collaboration and Sharing; and
- Risky Chapters? Maximize Outcomes & Minimize Liability;
Finance & Business Operations professionals
- Green Your Office;
- Identify Key Economic Indicators for Your Organization and Build a Dashboard for Success;
- Generate Nondues Revenues from Alliance Building;
- Is Your Investment Committee Well Behaved?;
- Be Ready for the Economic Rebound;
- Say Goodbye to Brick and Mortar: Take Your Association Virtual
Government Relations professionals
International
- Business of Meetings: Penetrating or Expanding Global Markets Through Meetings;
- The European Union: Ignore It at Your Own Risk;
- Going Global: Key Considerations;and
- Make Your First Meeting in China a Success;
IT professionals
Legal/HR professionals
- The 20 Most Important Issues in Association Law;
- 2010 Association Compensation & Benefits;
- Are You PCI Compliant?;
- Ask the Lawyers Your Most Pressing Questions;
- Beyond Diversity: Building an Inclusive Environment;
- Compete For and Retain the Best Employees: Benchmark your 403(b) Plan;
- Consider This: Business and Legal Concerns Raised by Social Media;
- Cyber Liability Risks - Tackle the Top Insurance Exposures for Associations;
- Due Process in Membership and Credentialing Decisions;
- GLBTQ: How to Be Inclusive When You Can't "See It";
- Make Social Media Work for Your Online Career Center;
- Maximize Your Effectiveness and Keep Your Association Safe in an Election Year;
- People Power: Sustain a Strong HR Culture; and
- Watch Your Step! Avoiding the Ten Biggest Association Governance Pitfalls
Marketing & Communication professionals
- The 360-Degree Marketing Communications Strategy;
- Ask the Marketing Experts;
- Business of Meetings: Beam Us Up Scotty! Enhance, Extend, and Enliven Your Meeting (and Brand) with Virtual Technology;
- Increase Acquisition & Retention Rates Via New Marketing Strategies;
- It's a YouTube World: Using Video for Communication;
- Marketing vs. IT: Solutions to Minimize Conflict and Maximize Results
- Small Staff Association Marketing Solutions Lab;
- Strategy in Planning, Crisis Management, and Media Relations;
- Top Ten Lessons Learned in Rebuilding and Rebranding;
Meetings professionals: A Business of Meetings track with 9 meetings-specific sessions and many other meeting-related sessions including
- Business of Meetings: Beam Us Up Scotty! Enhance, Extend, and Enliven Your Meeting (and Brand) with Virtual Technology;
- Business of Meetings: Behind the Scenes of Events;
- Business of Meetings: Greening Tales to be Told;
- Business of Meetings: Best Practices for Revitalizing Events to Maximize Attendee and Exhibitor Engagement;
- Business of Meetings: Conference Growth in an Economic Downturn;
- Business of Meetings: Designing a Sensational Event;
- Business of Meetings: General Sessions – The Making of;
- Business of Meetings: Hotel Attrition Survival Guide;
- Business of Meetings: Penetrating or Expanding Global Markets through Meetings;
- Business of Meetings: Rethinking Event ROI: Event Intelligence to Drive Value;
- Business of Meetings: Un-Breakout: Creating an Event Engagement Plan;
- Creating a Successful Education Portfolio;
- Doing More with Less: Driving up Training Value in Tough Times;
- Leading Edge Learning;
- Learning Made Portable;
- Make Your First Meeting in China a Success;
- Take Your Conferences Online
Membership professionals
- The 21st Century Value of Membership;
- Associations by Design: Using Creative Design Principles to Deliver Maximum Member Value;
- The Benefits of a Strategically Balanced Member Community;
- Business Modeling: Getting to the Big Picture;
- Engage Your Members Using Mobile Devices;
- Engaging and Retaining Young Members: Three Grassroots Programs to Consider;
- Free: The Future of a Radical Price. . . and the Impact on Your Association;
- Increase Acquisition & Retention Rates Via New Marketing Strategies;
- Plays Well With Others: Engage Your Members by Integrating Multiple Communications Channels;
- Transform Your Membership Model - Professional Association Edition;
- Transform Your Membership Model - Trade Association Edition; and
- Workforce and Membership 2020;
Nonprofit professionals
- Govern for Growth: Engage Your Nonprofit Board in Effective Governance;
- Innovation in the Nonprofit Community: What Have We Learned?; and
- Nonprofit Online Engagement Strategies
Small-staff professionals
- Outsourcing Toolkit for Small Staff Associations;
- The Disaster Experience - Small Staff Edition;
- Small Staff Association Marketing Solutions Lab;
- Coping and Managing as a Small Staff Executive;
- Doing More with Less: Driving up Training Value in Tough Times;
- Get the Most from Your Board: For Small Staff CEOs;
- Weaving Great Technology into Operations on a Tight Budget; and
- Complex Technology Management for the Micro-Staff Association
The lists are just a sample of some of the sessions being offered. For a full listing visit the education page of the Annual website.