Yoga, psychology, futurology

Among the 75 free workshops and presentations are teachings from New York Times´ best-selling book – “Influencer: The Power to Change Anything”; insight from the Cop15 Taskforce on sustainable events, and important first phase findings from Convention 2020, a new piece of global market research that endeavours to reveal the trends and pressures set to change the shape of the international meetings and conventions market in 10 years´ time.

Martin Sirk, CEO of ICCA will present a session on the ´Impact and Implications of the Iceland Volcano Eruption´. This will address both the short-term reaction and immediate solutions used by event and meeting planners as well as looking at the long-term implications for insurance, risk assessment and contingency planning within the industry.

Last year IMEX launched Meetings Under the Microscope, a new initiative designed to help meeting planners look beyond logistics and understand some of the new science and psychology behind event content and participant preparation and engagement. This year the programme has been expanded with additional toolkits and education sessions. Highlights include “Getting into the mood to meet: Meetings Mindset” by Jon Bradshaw, founder of Equinox Motivation and IMEX Business Development Director, and “Return on Expectations – Lessons from Einstein”, which will be presented by Jeremy Cassell and Tom Bird, of Performance Improvement Consultancy RTP.

Also new will be the introduction of short hatha yoga, Qi Gong and mediation sessions. A variety of stress-release sessions will take place every day at various times.

This year IMEX has also launched a fully searchable online diary of IMEX events and seminars so that website users can search by topic such as ´corporate responsibility´, ´green´ or ´cross-cultural´ or by presenter, such as ´IAPCO´ or ´Fast Future´. Registered hosted buyers and visitors are also able to add seminars to their online diaries to help them plan their day effectively.

To register online to attend, please go to http://www.imex-frankfurt.com/register.php?utm_source=imex10&utm_medium=email&utm_content=12Apr10&utm_campaign=Eventoplus