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Join MESA at ibtm in Barcelona at our Stand P52 and the MESA Re-FRESH Dinner on Wednesday 20th November!
Attend our educational campfires at ibtm at the MESA Stand P52
Planner: How we can work with you and offer our supplier products and invite you to our Planner Forums
Answer our short question about the biggest challenge you are facing as an event planner at the moment:
EVENT PLANNER - what's your biggest challenge at the moment?
MESA Founder Collaboration Calls
At MESA we want to provide support from within the community to energise, champion each other and empathise for members' needs. We run regular MESA Founder Collaboration calls, focussing on current issues facing our Founders and CEO’s. Open only to MESA Members. If you would like to join our forums and discussions, speak to Sandie about joining our community.
More information about MESA Membership
Very useful and informative, thank you all - Thomas Howie , COO, Evessio, UK
MESA Planner Forums
We aim to reach new audiences and connections with meeting planners for our members through education (online and at events).
Our next MESA Planner Forum will be in early 2025!
Online for an hour!
Our first Planner Forum took place in December 2022 and was all about creating a better shared understanding between industry event suppliers and meeting planners.
MESA SUMMARY - PLANNER FORUM DECEMBER 2022
We continuted our conversation and ran our event with MPI Belgium-Luxembourg & MPI Germany Club in June 2023 and looked at changes in the industry in the last 6 months, and what we need to do to enhance relationships between suppliers and event planners.
MESA SUMMARY - Planner Forum June 2023
In October 2023 meeting event planners and MESA supplier members looked at delegate engagement at events - what doesn't work, what does, and what can be improved or changed!
MESA SUMMARY - PLANNER FORUM OCTOBER 2023
April 2024 was our next MESA Planner Forum looking at Customer Sucsess! We looked at how things have changed and are still changing, what are the current trends and how we are adapting.
MESA SUMMARY - PLANNER FORUM APRIL 2024
We just had the MESA 5th Planner Forum all about Shorter Lead Times! (October 2024) - Watch out for our next MESA Planner Forum!
mesa Summary - Planner Forum October 2024
"The frank sharing amongst MESA members provide meaningful information to help improve our processes"
Fran Rickenbach, President, Management Excellence Inc., USA
"It was really amazing to find the ways colleagues use for engaging participants to the events and creating new enviroment for the events"
Tetiana Baranchuk, Event Project Manager, CWT- Meetings & Events, UK
"It was a really amazing group of people, a very relevant topic, and useful information was shared".
Tammy McGlade, Director of Marketing, epiQ Creative Group, USA (MESA Member)
“I had such a great first session with the MESA community on Thursday at their Planner Forum. All speakers on the topic of Customer Success were incredibly insightful and created lively discussion from the rest of the group. So great to be part of such an open conversation about the opportunities and difficulties faced by professionals in the industry. Really looking forward to joining the next event and hopefully meeting more of the community in person.”
Tabby Bunyan, Meetings & Events Lead, Extraordinary Britain Meetings & Events, UK
OUR MESA SUMMER NETWORKING WITH SONGDIVISION
Meetings & Events Support Association (MESA) | Virtual Summer Party Showcase | 25 July 2024 | SongDivision from SongDivision on Vimeo.
A great online networking event – I thoroughly enjoyed it – particularly the different activities and flow of the event. Thank you, MESA, and SongDivision!
Rob Davidson, Managing Director, MICE Knowledge, UK
Thank you so much for the great MESA Summer Networking event with SongDivision recently: it was innovative, entertaining, and full of networking and learning.
Andreas Zink, International HR Consultant, Facilitator, and Coach, Switzerland
MESA Monthly Member Meetings (4M's)
Education for leaders and teams is core within the MESA community and our members are a key priority for this. MESA runs monthly online events for member teams. Previous calls focused on the well-being and mental health of members working remotely, as well as finding new clients in an uncertain climate. MESA Monthly Member Meetings (4M's) in 2024 take place on the last Tuesday or Thursday of each month where possible. If you are interested in attending one of our calls to see if MESA Membership is for you contact Sandie
Wonderful, engaging event (August 4M)
Gordon Glenister, CEO, Membership World, MESA Member, UK
1400 GMT / 1500 CET
View more details about call topics and dates here
You can meet us at industry trade shows throughout 2024! The next one coming up is ibtm in Barcelona! FIND OUT MORE
Our campfire seating is sponsored and provided by FestivalChairs 
