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Meetings Quest Partners
with IAEE for Event in Oakland
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Partnership Allows Meeting Planners
and Suppliers to Earn
Credits Toward IAEE’s Professional
Certification Program
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Los
Angeles, CA – June 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / The International Association
of Exhibitions and Events has partnered with the Meetings
Quest trade show, which will be held July 22–23 at the Oakland Convention
Center in Oakland, California, to provide its professional certification
training. Presented by Association News magazine and hosted by Visit
Oakland, Meetings Quest is America’s longest-running series of educational
and networking events for association, corporate, government and religious
meeting planners.
“We
are pleased to continue our partnership with IAEE, a trusted and valuable
resource in the exhibitions and events industry,” said Timothy Schneider,
president and CEO of Schneider Publishing, which publishes Association
News and organizes Meetings Quest.
On
July 22, Meetings Quest attendees will be able to earn credits toward IAEE’s
professional certification program, which leads to the Certified in Exhibition
Management (CEM) designation. The day-long program will be administered
by IAEE and taught by CEM commission–approved faculty. The CEM designation
was created in 1975 to raise professional standards in the exhibition industry
and is recognized as the premier mark of professional achievement for those
who manage and host trade shows.
“This
exclusive CEM session in Oakland will focus on floor-plan development,
and we invite both current and prospective members of IAEE to take advantage
of this unique opportunity as a means of obtaining the distinguished CEM
accreditation,” said Schneider.
Meetings
Quest is organized by Los Angeles–based Schneider Publishing, publishers
of SportsTravel and Association News magazines and organizers
of the TEAMS Conference & Expo. The group travel markets served by
Schneider Publishing generate 106 million hotel room nights annually. Meetings
Quest has been held in Mesa, Arizona; Cabarrus County, North Carolina;
and Providence, Rhode Island. Meetings Quest shows will be held in Bloomington,
Minnesota, in spring of 2016. For further information, visit MeetingsQuest.com
or call 877-577-3700. To watch the Meetings Quest video overview, click
here. To register for the CEM course, click
here.
For
further press information, please contact Ann
Shepphird, or call 310-577-3700.
About
Schneider Publishing
Schneider
Publishing (SchneiderPublishing.com)
is the parent company of Association News (AssociationNews.com),
America’s most-read magazine for association executives, and SportsTravel
(SportsTravelMagazine.com),
the sports world’s event magazine. In addition to Meetings Quest (MeetingsQuest.com),
Schneider Publishing organizes the TEAMS Conference & Expo (TEAMSconference.com),
the world’s largest gathering of sports-event organizers, which will be
held November 9-12, 2015, in Las Vegas. The group travel markets served
by Schneider Publishing generate 106 million hotel room nights annually.
About
International Association of Exhibitions and Events
Trusted
since 1928, IAEE (IAEE.com) provides
quality and value to its members through leadership, service, education
and strong relationships. IAEE is the largest association of the exhibitions
and events industry in the world, with a membership of show organizers,
exhibitors and exhibition suppliers. Organizers of more than 20,000 exhibitions
and buyer-seller events around the world are members of IAEE, and the organization
advocates and promotes the awareness of face-to-face exhibitions and events
as the primary medium for business development and growth. IAEE provides
relevant, timely and innovation education to its members and the industry.
Association
News, Meetings Quest, SportsTravel and TEAMS are registered
trademarks of Schneider Publishing.
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