It was 1989 when then-publisher Dean Laux, president of The Laux Co., bought Insurance Conference Planner from George Lowden, owner of Bayard Publications, Stamford, Conn. (He purchased ICP along with Convention World, which was to become...
The ICPA Board of Directors extends its sincere congratulations to ICP — now Financial & Insurance Meetings — as it celebrates 40 years of delivering news and quality information to insurance and financial services conference planners. Our two...
Three weeks after Katrina, we asked John Foster Esq., CHME, Foster, Jensen & Gulley, LLC, Atlanta, Ga for advice to those with meetings in New Orleans, or anywhere else on the Gulf Coast, in 2006 or 2007. Here's what he told us...
The theme for our 2005 annual conference, Be a Part of It!, could not be more appropriate. Never has our association presented more opportunity for its members to participate than we do today...
If the first-ever incentive meeting wasn't held for insurance agents, no doubt the second one was. Insurance companies and incentive meetings go way back...
Steve Bova, CAE, has been an association management professional for 18 years, but he has the same intellectual curiosity as in his student days at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Association management isn't just his profession, it's his...
A new must-read has rolled off the presses at Meeting Professionals International. The third position paper from its Global Corporate Circle of Excellence tackles planner-supplier relationships in a strategic meeting management environment — that...
Congratulations to ICP on 40 years of publishing the finest magazine catering to the insurance meeting planners of the world. I say this because I'm pretty sure it is the only magazine catering to the insurance meeting planners of the world, but...
An added emphasis on education and industry trends marked the Hyatt Insurance & Financial Roundtable, held September 15 to 18 at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa in San Antonio...
