MPI Eastern Great Lakes Chapter

About Eastern Great Lakes Chapter

Message from the President

Earlier this year, MPI hired a new CEO. Among numerous credentials, Bruce MacMillan brought a new vision statement to the organization. “To create a Rich Global Meeting Community.”

This global community has changed dramatically in the last few years for our chapter. As a result of this, the Western New York Chapter has changed its name to the Eastern Great Lakes Chapter. Why Eastern Great Lakes? Our chapter includes parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and, (as the one of the few dual citizenship chapter in North America), Southern Ontario Canada, all the places that touch both Erie and Ontario Lake.

With this new chapter name comes a new chapter focus, a focus driven by the international vision statement, to create our own global meeting community. In this we make the following promises to all members:

1. Educational sessions chosen based on the member needs taken from our chapter self assessment. Sessions this year will include negotiating contracts, sales process, A/V 101 and everyone’s favorite, APEX.

2. Affordable opportunities on both sides of the chapter geography, Buffalo and Rochester. All breakfast meetings will be only $15 with dinners only $25 and we will host 3 completely FREE events this year for all members.

3. Opportunities for networking not just with MPI members, but 4 opportunities to meet with other meeting professionals.

Please feel free to come on your own, bring a colleague or tell someone who may enjoy. That is 2 chances to attend events for free this year.

Be a part of the new truly Global community that the Eastern Great Lakes chapter is bringing you this year and all the next!

Matt Peglow, CMP

Chapter President 2007-2008

president@wnympi.org

(585) 546-4162

About MPI
MPI is the largest association for the meetings profession with more than 20,500 members in 68 chapters and clubs across the U.S., Canada, Europe and other countries throughout the world. As the global authority and resource for the $122.3 billion meetings and events industry, MPI empowers meeting professionals to increase their strategic organizational value through education and networking opportunities.

Vision

Build a rich global meeting industry community

Strategic Imperatives

The Vision is activated by four strategies:

EVOLVE to a global community

RE-IMAGINE our business relationship with chapters

ELEVATE the member conversation and experience

BUILD a great organization

Mission

Make our members successful by building human connections to:

Knowledge/Ideas

Relationships

Marketplaces

What's In It For You?

MPI will deliver more value to all stakeholders and higher levels of member satisfaction.

Our mission has commenced but we’ve only just begun:

Our global strategy will expand our community connections to knowledge, relationships and marketplaces around the world for all members

Phase One of our Web 2.0 collaboration and community-building tools have been activated on our website including the meeting industry’s first wiki where knowledge is created and shared by our community

Co-creation workshops with key member communities in Philadelphia and London have been held creating the foundation for new MPI educational products and marketplace experiences for all of our community.