What's next?

Successful event professionals are generally comfortable with the goal of doing more with less. However, over the past year, many have been tasked with doing even more with even less… and, no matter how creative and driven you are, there’s only so much streamlining you can do before that goal feels impossible.

Fortunately, you aren’t alone.

In this short series of mini-breakout sessions, you’ll meet with your peers and share what’s worked for you (or what you’ve seen and would like to try, but haven’t yet) in response to each of the prompts provided.

You’ll brainstorm opportunities to eek a little more productivity out of your event-related efforts and maybe even find ways to advance your career in the process; then, before you leave, you’ll share your takeaways and swap contact information so you can keep learning and growing beyond this time together.

Part of your responsibility, as an exhibition organizer, is to work with your exhibitors – for example: understanding their needs/wants, addressing their concerns, and accommodating reasonable requests to make their experience better…

Those are just the tip of the iceberg; fortunately, all of these goals (and more!) can be achieved through your Exhibitor Advisory Committee (EAC), but only if it’s set up and facilitated properly.

• In this session, we will identify the key questions you should ask yourself when establishing your EAC in order to prevent common problems from arising later.
• Then, we will review several important action steps that can help you facilitate EAC meetings more productively (replacing dreaded “complaining sessions” with constructive feedback and actionable ideas instead!).
• Finally, we will answer your questions about effective EACs so that yours can be more helpful to you (and your other VIP stakeholders) sooner.