3rd International Conference for MICE industry as part of MIBEXPO Russia

Conference Concept

3rd International conference for MICE industry is the main part of business program at MIBEXPO Russia exhibition. The conference will be held in the format of training sessions and master classes during two days of the exhibition. Famous Russian and foreign specialists of MICE industry, including experts from international associations will make reports on the vital issues of this sector. Conference participation will be useful for the employees of tourist agencies and tour operators, tourism administrations personnel, sales managers and directors of the conference halls, hotels and health centers, professional meetings and conferences' organizers, event-managers and marketing departments' heads of the corporate structures, as well as for all persons interested. Organizer - Euroexpo Co-organizer - Russian Business Travel Association (RBTA)

DAY ONE - 26 September 2007

10.00 - 10.45

Arrivals and Registration

10.45 - 11.00

Chairman's Welcome and Opening Remarks

Yuri Sarapkin, RBTA Executive Vice-President, MPI Member

11.00 - 11.35 

The future of the Meetings Industry and the Potential for the Russian Market: Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies

Tom Hulton, International Meeting Venues, CEO

Keynote Speech

11.35 - 12.15  

Networking Coffee Break

12.15 - 12.50  

Distinctive Features of Meetings Management Education

Joyce Dogniez, Director of Operations, EMEA, Meeting Professionals International (MPI)

Keynote Speech

12.50 - 13.25 

Achieving Cross-Cultural Competence in the Russian and Foreign Businesses: a Practical Approach. Are You Ready to Work with Russians?

Michael Gates, Executive Director of Richard Lewis Communications

Keynote Speech

13.25 - 14.00 

Trade Exhibition Management in the meetings industry

Tony Carey, President & CEO, The Carey Consultancy

Master-Class

14.00 - 15.00 

Networking Break-Lunch

15.00 - 15.35 

Site (destination) Selection: Practical Advices and Tools

Thomas Reiser, Client Director, MCI, Executive Director, International Society of Nephrology (ISN)

Master-Class

15.35 - 16.10 

Improving the Bottom Line - How to Plan Cost Effective Conferences

Tony Carey, President  & CEO, The Carey Consultancy

Keynote Speech

16.10 - 16.30

Question and answer session. Chairman's Review. Close of Day One

DAY TWO - 27 September 2007

10.00 - 10.30 

Arrivals

10.30 - 12.30 

Peer - to - Peer Discussion Forum on the Meetings Industry

Round table program:

-          Keynote Speech  The Meetings Industry - a Critical Tool of Russian Regions Development

-         Open discussion of the delegates

Moderator - Yuri Sarapkin, RBTA Executive Vice-President, MPI Member

(only for Russian language speaking conference delegates)
Round Table

12.30 - 13.30 

Networking Break-Lunch

13.30 - 14.05 

Business Travelling in XXI century. New about Known

Herman Mensink, Vice President for AMEA PRISM Group Inc., Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE)

Keynote Speech

14.05 - 15.00

MICE Made in Russia & CIS. Experience of Russian Regions and CIS countries

- Vadim Grabarchuk, President of Business Travel Association of Ukraine, Kiev

- Andrey Shapovalov, Member of Directors' Board of Materik Group of Companies, Project Director for SAYEN, Irkutsk

- Svetlana Slepenok, General Director of Business Travel Center "Unona", Kaliningrad

Case Studies 

15.00 - 15.35   

Entry of Russia into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Business Services Market

Aleksandr Posadskiy, President, National Information & Marketing Services Center for Business, Member of the Council on the Small/Medium-Scale Entrepreneurship attached to the Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 

Keynote Speech

15.35 - 16.00

Question and answer session. Chairman's Closing Remarks. End of Conference 

* the program might be changed by the organizing  committee