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Plus, a robust wireless system allows Moscone to support as many as 60,000 devices at once so attendees can download, stream and selfie at will. Much of the art planned for the site will be outside the building so both attendees and passers-by can enjoy the investment. Public Face. Moscone Center construction.
Then suddenly we all started showing up as attendees, we had our new devices, and we all want wireless. “Technology was moving very slowly, and everybody was just using wired lines. Suddenly, technology is moving so fast because we are buying new devices every six months or a year.”
What we realized in one of our APEX council meetings was that there was a severe lack of knowledge out there, both on the meeting-planner side and on the venue-operator side, about Internet and bandwidth, so we had a pretty lively discussion one day about the challenges, and we decided that there was a project we needed to undertake.
It was this moment where I realized that experiences in meetings can have an impact on attendees, and reshaped how I viewed my career. At some point, I would like to branch out in my career and experience what meetingplanning is like in the private sector. Meetingplanning is very exciting because of the variety it offers.
Notable clients: Verizon Wireless, Procter & Gamble, The McKinsey Quarterly, Purple Cow, J&J. Meeting Expectations. Founded in 1992, Meeting Expectations is a full-service meetingplanning and association management company that drives client success through effective and engaging event and membership experiences.
Another big, ongoing story has been the transformation of the image that meeting professionals hold of themselves. Meetingplanning, which used to be described as an ‘Old Boys’’ network, may soon be a ‘Young Women’s’ network. Wireless Internet Access. It’s the ‘why should I travel to this meeting.’”.
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