Programs that help businesses, trade associations, professional associations, nonprofit organizations or other community groups that want to sponsor a local, state, regional, national or international conference, trade show or convention plan the conference program. Tasks include obtaining a keynote speaker and speakers for other conference events, planning a mix of workshop and intensive topics that meets conference objectives, getting commitments for workshop presenters, obtaining permission to tape the sessions, if relevant, determining audiovisual equipment needs; making arrangements for equipment and room set-ups for individual workshops, establishing a process for issuing continuing education credits (CEUs), if desired, developing and printing CEU forms, recruiting vendors for the exhibit hall and providing opportunities for special interest groups to meet.
No programs.