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Elling Hamso of the European ROI Institute is providing delegates at this year’s ICCA Congress with a tool to measure the value they gain from the event. He explains the thinking behind the concept to James Latham.

Meetings support and production specialist Maarten Vanneste is the man behind a new book, Meeting Architecture, which presents a future where meetings planners raise their profile in the corporate world by becoming increasingly involved in the content and design of the events they organise. James Latham talks to the author and Reed Travel Exhibition’s Paul Kennedy to find out more.

Having overseen the running of three major meetings and events industry shows in four months across the globe, Reed Travel Exhibitions’ Paul Kennedy gives James Latham his expert opinion on how the sector is performing during the downturn.

In the fallout from the AIG meetings scandal, MPI in the US has been getting across the key message that fewer meetings would be bad for the American economy due to less motivation, marketing, dealmaking and tax revenues. During MPI’s recent MeetDifferent conference, the association’s president and chief executive Bruce MacMillan tells James Latham why the media has got it wrong.

The European Event ROI Institute’s Elling Hamso talks to Ian Whiteling about how companies can go about putting the mechanisms in place to make sure their events achieve maximum return on investment.

Vice president, global development of MPI Didier Scaillet talks to Ingrid Brown about Culture Active, an online tool designed to improve cross-cultural understanding across an increasingly global meetings industry, to help create better events.

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