- June 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
June 17 to 19 in Las Vegas featured a welcome sight for the entire meeting, convention, and trade-show business: 1,229 planners and suppliers in one place, learning and networking with each other. In some ways, it seemed like old times.
But with the Covid pandemic having sidelined the in-person event segment for nearly 16 months and affecting the way events will happen for the foreseeable future, MPI’s World Education Congress took on a somewhat different look and feel, as did the topics broached by the association’s leadership, industry veterans, and session presenters.
Paul Van Deventer, president and CEO of MPI, noted during the event’s press conference that along with the in-person attendees, WEC drew 568 digital attendees who could watch each day’s general session live but had a separate agenda for breakout sessions. At Caesars Forum, masking was optional for vaccinated attendees and mandatory for…
