Countdown to IMEX America

It has been almost two years since Ray Bloom, chairman of IMEX, announced the launch of the new IMEX America show at a press conference in October 2009. Standing alongside Bruce MacMillan, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International, a key education partner for the show, and host city representative Rossi Ralenkotter, president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Bloom promised to deliver the North American meetings and incentives industry’s largest-ever hosted