Changemaker: Mike Shea
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Shea, executive director of South by Southwest, is the visionary behind the SXSW family of conferences.
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Changemaker: Judy Anderson
GameStop's creative and daring planner is focused on engagement for the Millennial attendee
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Changemaker: Amanda Batstone
Batstone, senior program manager at CBI, UBM Life Sciences, has embraced engagement ideas and new technologies that enhance the meeting experience.
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Changemaker: Michelle Bergstein-Fontanez
Bergstein-Fontanez, marketing maven/owner at Event Industry Marketing by BeatCreative, brings passion and creativity to digital marketing and engagement for events.
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Changemaker: Gregory J. Butler
At Becton Dickinson, Butler went all-in when tapped to manage the company’s first-ever Global Sustainable Operations Forum.
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Changemakers: Padraic Gilligan and Patrick Delaney
SoolNua's Gilligan (left) and Delaney bring a truly new eye to the meetings and events industry, not just through their day jobs but as passionate, sporting, musical, insightful, delightful whole human beings.
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Changemaker: Dahlia El Gazzar
El Gazzar, co-founder of The Meeting Pool, is on a mission to educate the masses about apps and mobile technology on site at conferences.
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Changemaker: Aynn Furie
At Pfizer, the senior director, global meetings category, is leading
an innovative global strategic meetings management program.
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Changemaker: Sherri Lindenberg, CLU
The senior vice president, marketing & events at Crump Life Insurance Services has energetically embraced what’s new and dared to try the untested in a risk-averse industry.
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Changemaker: Michelle Mason, FASAE, CAE
The president and CEO of the Association Forum of Chicagoland has developed and executed a plan to add value to her organization.
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Mariela McIlwraith, CMP, CMM, MBA
McIlwraith, president of Meeting Change, brings her passion for sustainability and fundamental human issues to every aspect of the meetings industry and uses that passion to educate others through her writing and volunteer efforts.
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Changemaker: Meetings Mean Business
The coalition that represents and advocates for the meetings and business travel industry this year held the first North American Meetings Industry Day, co-coordinated by Karen Kotowski, CAE, CMP, CEO, Convention Industry Council (left), and Nan Marchand Beauvois, vice president, U.S. Travel, and managing director for the Meetings Mean Business coalition.
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Changemakers: Kimberly Meyer and Peter Matthews
The owners of Meetings Analytics have found a niche in the strategic meetings management lifecycle: helping companies turn “fairy tale” reporting into trustworthy analysis of hard data.
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Changemaker: Katrina Ruff, CMP, CIS
Owner of Forums Meetings & Events, Ruff is a spirited entrepreneur and mentor with a social conscience.
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Changemaker: Joe Scully
John Hancock's senior director, meeting & event management pushes past the expected to the exceptional.
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Changemaker: Julie Taylor
The director, education and training at the California Water Environment Association has reinvented her group's annual conference.
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Changemaker: Elizabeth Warwick
Liberty Mutual's VP, Meeting Management and Event Strategy, has raised the profile—and the purpose—of her event management team.
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Changemaker: Heidi Welker
Welker, VP, marketing at Freeman Audio Visual Canada has created social responsibility programs with MPI for Canadian communities.
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