IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum at IMEX
The next IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum at IMEX will take place on 27 and 28 May 2009.
For details of how to register please see below.
Starwood Hotels sponsored a drinks reception for Future Leaders during IMEX 2008 at the Sheraton Airport Hotel which included a presentation of Starwood's graduate Vita Futura Programme. Around 120 students attended the sixth IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum at IMEX 2008, most of them studying at European universities in Austria, France, Germany and the UK for degrees in meetings and events management, tourism or related business or administration studies. An impressive team of senior executives from the meetings industry gave presentations to the students aimed at motivating and assisting them in deciding on a career in the meetings industry.
Click here to view the 2008 programme and presentations.
What past students said..
"It was great to meet professionals out of the business tourism sector as well as those who will be the future in this area. It was amazing to see and interact with so many different cultures at once in such a short time. This event showed me once more that we all could live in a peaceful world if people would be as open as the participants in the Future Leaders Forum. We are not only the Future Leaders but also the better future of our planet that we live on. Thanks for showing me that all people can work and enjoy together such a great event."
Mag (fh) Julia Payr, Fachhochschule IMC-Krems, University of Applied Sciences Austria
"The Future Leaders Forum at IMEX was an extremely good and amazing experience for me. It was really educational to hear the leaders of today. To learn about their best practice and things that they have found useful from their own experience. It was interesting to meet other Future Leaders who might be working with me in the future at the same time. After IMEX I now have connections all over Europe which will be useful for me in the future"
Maria Pyotsia, Lahti University of Applied Sciences
Do I Qualify?
Students qualifying for the Forum will be in their second or final year of university/college studying meetings and conventions, tourism or hospitality and will not have attended an IMEX Future Leaders Forum before. You will not necessarily have made up your mind to enter this industry.
If you would like any further information please contact Dale Hudson on dale@imex-frankfurt.com.
Please note that attendance at the Forum is complimentary however students pay for their own travel to Frankfurt and accommodation.
