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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Beth Surmont, CMP Fellow

Smart Meetings

Today, Surmont, also holding an FASAE and CAE, is the vice president of event strategy and design at 360 Live Media. She has been a CMP since 2008, and was a member of the inaugural class of CMP Fellows in 2022. Through event design, I’ve been able to merge my love for storytelling with my talent for planning great events.”

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ADMEI Welcomes Denise Malo, DMCP, as New Board President

ADMEI

She is skilled in event production, program development, event design, and logistical implementation, and she thrives in educating the next generation of event producers to achieve their goals of excellence in the hospitality industry. However, she brings to the table over 35 years in the hospitality industry.

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Virtual Meetings Lower Costs … and Interaction

Conferences that Work

“It was no coincidence that the CSX Corporation held its 2008 meeting at a remote rail yard in New Orleans, the same year it was the focus of a shareholder activist putting up a proxy fight. In previous years, it had held those meetings at the luxurious Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, which the railroad owned at the time.

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