MPI Eastern Great Lakes Chapter

About Eastern Great Lakes Chapter

Message from the President

First off, I want to thank everyone for their support of this year’s annual Fall Harvest Silent Auction Fund Raiser. We raised over $800 to offset the costs of meeting throughout this year. Pearl Street Brewery was a fun location and a great opportunity for offsite events. Please feel free to contact them if you have any needs in the Buffalo area. (And make sure they serve their homemade ice cream, that made it all that much more enjoyable!)

Our next event will be our annual Speed Planning in March of 2009. This event last year gave 20+ planners and suppliers in nearly equal numbers the opportunity to connect. Don’t be surprised if some of your best connections are not who you would think. Our list last year was as diverse as the chapter, with hotels, services, planners and DMCs! Please keep your eyes open for details.

Lastly, I just want to encourage everyone to get out and vote! No, not the election that by now is already decided, but the By Law Changes for MPI. To vote, just go to www.mpiweb.org and log into your account. If you don’t have an account you can sign up there also. These By Law changes, while at first seem daunting and abstract, have a very direct reaction at the chapter level. While not supporting either candidate, oops, I mean side, please get out and vote.

Have a great and safe Holiday and I will look forward to seeing you all in the new year!

Matt Peglow

President, Eastern Great Lakes MPI

About MPI
MPI is the largest association for the meetings profession with more than 20,500 members in 68 chapters and clubs across the U.S., Canada, Europe and other countries throughout the world. As the global authority and resource for the $122.3 billion meetings and events industry, MPI empowers meeting professionals to increase their strategic organizational value through education and networking opportunities.

Vision

Build a rich global meeting industry community

Strategic Imperatives

The Vision is activated by four strategies:

EVOLVE to a global community

RE-IMAGINE our business relationship with chapters

ELEVATE the member conversation and experience

BUILD a great organization

Mission

Make our members successful by building human connections to:

Knowledge/Ideas

Relationships

Marketplaces

What's In It For You?

MPI will deliver more value to all stakeholders and higher levels of member satisfaction.

Our mission has commenced but we’ve only just begun:

Our global strategy will expand our community connections to knowledge, relationships and marketplaces around the world for all members

Phase One of our Web 2.0 collaboration and community-building tools have been activated on our website including the meeting industry’s first wiki where knowledge is created and shared by our community

Co-creation workshops with key member communities in Philadelphia and London have been held creating the foundation for new MPI educational products and marketplace experiences for all of our community.