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Meetings Quest Programming
Lineup
Features Sports Figures
and Meetings Industry Experts
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Olympic Gold
Medalist Dan Jansen, NASCAR Driver David Ragan,
Former IAEE
President Steven Hacker, Attorney John S. Foster and
Technology
Innovators Headline Meetings Quest in Cabarrus County, North Carolina
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Los
Angeles, CA – August 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / Meetings
Quest, the nation’s longest-running series of educational and networking
events for association and corporate meeting planners, will be held September
9–10 in Cabarrus County, North
Carolina, with a programming lineup that includes distinguished sports
figures, one of the nation’s preeminent experts on meetings law and technology
innovators in the meeting planning industry.
Hosted
by the Cabarrus
County Convention & Visitors Bureau and presented by
Association
News magazine, Meetings Quest will begin on Tuesday, September 9, with
an evening at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which seats 167,000 and features
a 16,000-square-foot HDTV. Cabarrus County is “Where Racing Lives” and
attendees will get to experience that motto as they are welcomed by NASCAR
driver David Ragan and then given the opportunity to take some laps around
the storied track in pace cars with professional drivers.
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On
the morning of Wednesday, September 10, a motivational keynote address
will feature Olympian Dan Jansen, who won the gold medal for speedskating
in 1994. Jansen was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 2004
and has been a speedskating commentator for five Olympic Winter Games,
including the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. The Dan Jansen Foundation, which
was established in 1994, supports youth sports, educational programs and
charities with an emphasis on fighting leukemia.
Immediately
following Jansen’s keynote, Meetings Quest will offer two Learning Lab
sessions focused on technology and legal issues confronting meeting planners.
Both sessions will be facilitated by Steven Hacker, former president of
the International Association of Exhibitions and Events, who now serves
as “The Association Doctor” columnist for Association News. Expert
presenters include Jay Tokosch, co-founder of Core-apps; Terence Donnelly,
vice-president of sales for Experient; and attorney John S. Foster, one
the nation’s foremost experts on meetings-industry law. The Learning Lab
sessions will be followed by an afternoon trade show at the Concord Convention
Center featuring exhibitors interested in working with corporate and association
meeting planners.
Meetings
Quest was acquired last year 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.
For
further information or to register, visit MeetingsQuest.com
or call toll-free 877-577-3700. To watch the Meetings Quest video overview,
click
here.
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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 10-13 in Las Vegas. The group travel markets served by Schneider
Publishing generate 106 million hotel room nights annually.
Association
News, SportsTravel and TEAMS are registered trademarks and Meetings
Quest is a trademark of Schneider Publishing. |