2023 | COLUMBUS | JANUARY 8 – 11

Ignite your path.

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2023 | COLUMBUS | JANUARY 8 – 11

Ignite your path.

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PCMA Convening Leaders 2024

SAVE THE DATE: Jan. 7-10, 2024

VENUE: San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr., San Diego, CA 92101

You belong to a trailblazing industry

Designed to lead the business meeting industry into the future, Convening Leaders is an epic gathering of one-of-a-kind experiences, dynamic discussions and powerful networking.

Join your community to connect, collaborate and explore ways to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Ignite your path at CL23.

Convening Leaders 2023: Ignite Your Path

Be part of an incredible opportunity: Helping brands, communities and organizations connect people with purpose to ideas and opportunities after two years of being apart.

Reconnect with the world’s best event professionals: One for all generations and nations that combines inclusive community engagement opportunities, iconic education and entertainment and a reimagined person-to-person activation platform.

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2023 HEADLINERS & FEATURED SPEAKERS

Thomas Brag & Ammar Kandil

Yes Theory: Embrace Uncertainty to Reach your Full Potential

Allyson Felix

Iconic Athlete

Adam Grant

Organizational psychologist at Wharton, bestselling author of Think Again, and host of the podcast WorkLife

Daniel Pink

#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret, Drive, and To Sell is Human

Carly Fiorina

Founder and Chairman Carly Fiorina Enterprises

Chris Nassetta

Chief Executive Officer, Hilton Worldwide

Matthew Slaughter

Former Member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Economic Policy Expert and Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Ben Erwin

President and CEO, Encore

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Convene Covers Convening Leaders 2023

How Marketers Use Data to Create More Successful Events
A Convening Leaders 2023 session on data offered case-study examples of event marketers who are figuring out how to analyze registration data and make quick shifts to increase attendance.
Is Event Technology Prepared for Another Pandemic?
Three event executives discuss strategic challenges for international business events — including whether event technology is better positioned to handle another public health crisis that requires events to return to digital-only experiences.
What Exactly Is the Metaverse? Here’s One Expert’s Take.
Entrepreneur and academic Tommaso Di Bartolo, speaking at Convening Leaders 2023, tackled the metaverse questions many in events are asking.

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HEALTH & SAFETY

PCMA has partnered with Safe Expo to create an onsite plan keeping everyone’s health & safety in mind.

Learn more about the measures we’re taking to protect you.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Convening Leaders brings together the brightest minds and innovators in the business events industry to ask a simple question:

Where to next?

Community

Connect with other business events professionals in powerful keynote sessions, intimate workshops, and networking receptions.

Content

Hear from speakers who are tackling the big challenges facing the industry today, and learn how your workplace, audience, business, and purpose must transform to stay ahead.

Commerce

Discover fresh strategies and new technology that are bringing live and digital experiences to the next level and redefining the future of business events.

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The future of business events is coming. Are you ready?

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WHAT THEY SAY…

It’s everything you need in three days to build your career.

Anissa Ladd, CASE Director of National Accounts, Go Providence
I’ve been coming to Convening Leaders for the past 10 years. I just think the education, the latest technology — anything you’re looking for to plan your meeting — it’s at Convening Leaders.

Deborah Young CMP, CEM Director of Convention & Meetings, National Association of Elementary School Principals
It’s a great refreshment of re-connecting and networking with people, and then on top of it, you get this great education and inspiring speakers. For me, it’s the best way to start off your year. If you’re not attending PCMA Convening Leaders, you really should.

Meg Harper National Group Sales Director, Davenport Hotels
It is the best conference I’ve ever attended. Ever. And, as a seasoned professional, I get so much out of it. I can’t tell you how many pictures I’ve taken on my phone of new ideas I’m looking forward to taking back to my corporation.

Patty Amos, CMP Owner, Soma Event Design Services
Everyone’s here. It’s a great opportunity for you to reconnect, reinvigorate yourself and be able to start fresh in the new year.

Will Trokey National Accounts Director for Visit Greater Palm Springs
I'm looking forward to connecting with other event professionals and learning new strategies to create the best conference possible.

Jill Cavanaugh Conference Coordinator, Infusion Nurses Society
(2019 Convening Leaders was) my second time attending. I was genuinely blown away the first time and had gained so much exposure and experience from the previous year.

Amelia Binti Roziman Chief Operating Officer, Sarawak Convention Bureau

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