April GMID Education Program

Thank you to the Oregon Convention Center for their sponsorship of the April program!

April Program Pricing:

$50/$60	MPI Member Early/Late - Education Program, lunch and reception
$60/$70	Non-member Early/Late - Education Program, lunch and reception
$99	CPR/AED Class only
$149	Supplier Marketplace Table (includes lunch and reception)

Schedule is as follows for the April education program:

8:30 AM	Registration for CPR/AED class
9:00 AM	CPR class begins
11:00 AM	Exhibitors to set up
11:30 AM	CPR/AED Concludes
11:30 AM	Registration for education program, networking, exhibit hall opens
12:30 PM	Program Begins
1:00 PM	Presentation - Being Resilient in an Uncertain Business World as We Overcome Adversity to Thrive in Any Situation
3:00 PM	Panel Discussion - How to Avoid or Deal with Risks at Your Venue or Next Event
4:00 PM	MPI Global 50th Anniversary Celebration Reception

Supplier Marketplace:
Take time out of your GMID to visit our marketplace / tradeshow and learn what the various destinations and venues are doing in this post-Covid environment.  Visit with each vendor and get your passport stamped to be entered into our raffle.  You will have time after the CPR class and before lunch, between the keynote speaker and the panel and then again during our 50^th anniversary celebration.  Don’t miss this valuable piece of your day of education.

CPR/AED Class Information:

Curriculum Provider:  American Red Cross
Certification Duration: 2 Years

Course Format:
Save a life!  Get certified today.  MPI is offering a CPR/AED certification class (open to members and non members) through Cascade Training Center.  If you are an event planner or a supplier, you are constantly around the public and attendees or guests.  This puts you in a higher category of needing this life-saving certification. 

This course will prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of breathing and cardiac emergencies involving adults, children and infants and meets OSHA/workplace requirements. Upon successful completion of this course you will receive your certificate for Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED valid for two years.  Employees who know how to perform CPR/AED accurately may save the life of their coworker if an emergency occurs in the workplace. Ability to remain calm: CPR/AED certification courses prepare people to remain calm if an emergency occurs. 

Benefits of being CPR/AED certified in the workplace:

• Empowering: Through CPR/AED training employees will feel empowered by being able to lend a helping hand and rescue a coworker. Through CPR training employee will gain confidence to perform CPR/AED and manage emergency situation accordingly. To be able to take the CPR lessons outside the workplace will gain you the confidence to be able to help strangers on the street outside of the workplace.
• Knowledge: Employees will learn specific knowledge through the CPR/AED classes such as what’s inside a First aid kit. They will be informed on vocabulary and techniques to use when performing CPR/AED which they wouldn’t have known otherwise.
• Survival Rate: Through CPR/AED classes employees will retain the knowledge to help if an employees were to stop breathing or went into cardiac arrest. CPR/AED trained employees will be able to react and perform CPR/AED immediately which will increase their chance of survival.
• Respect: CPR/AED certification not only brings empowered, knowledge and higher survival rate but also respect from friends, family and employees. With your CPR/AED certification your colleagues will trust and rely on you in emergency situation which can make you feel important and responsible.
• Positive work environment: By making CPR/AED readily available to employees, employers can show their workplace that they care and provide a safe work environment. CPR/AED classes also create an excellent team-building exercise to boost employees morale.

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April Education:
11:30 am - 2:30 pm
The April program will include a presentation from Dan Weedin, panel discussion regarding crisis management.  Throughout the afternoon there will be a supplier marketplace.  We will end the day with a reception celebrating the 50th Anniversary of MPI!

Being Resilient in an Uncertain Business World as We Overcome Adversity to Thrive in Any Situation

Speaker: Dan Weedin

Uncertainty has always been present in business. In the 21st century, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity have become the standard that we all must deal with regularly. If we aren't careful, these factors can become overwhelming and lead to adversity. Being resilient in business and life has never been more important.

We don't have a professional life and personal life. We have a life. How we deal with adversity in all aspects of that life will also affect our careers.

Dan Weedin will present risk strategies, concepts, and ideas to help meeting planners prevent, respond to, and recover from adversity by becoming more resilient. He will discuss how to embrace uncertainty and create a plan to prepare for it and overcome adversity before it overcomes us.

More About Dan:
Dan Weedin is an experienced entrepreneur, thought leader, author, and award-winning speaker who has a passion for consulting, coaching and mentoring other entrepreneurs and business professionals.

He has the rare ability to translate his success in the insurance industry, public speaking, non-profit world, and athletic coaching into applicable and transferable principles that dramatically improve the effectiveness of those business owners and executives he works with.

Dan has helped drive performance and resilience improvement with countless small and mid-sized companies across the country. He focuses his consulting skills to help them improve influencing skills, develop resilience and risk strategies, improve team building skills, drive entrepreneurship, and advance leadership skills. 

Dan is a 1987 graduate of the University of Washington where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History. In 2012, he was inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant™ Hall of Fame.

Dan has published four books, with the latest titled, Back 9 Walking: A Guide to Living Life Unleashed. He is the host of the nationally syndicated podcast, The Shrimp Tank Podcast for the Pacific Northwest.

He is an active member of his community. He is a past president and current member of his Rotary Club. He currently serves on the District Youth Exchange Committee for his club. He also serves as the Head Boys Golf Coach at North Kitsap High School.

Dan enjoys playing golf, cooking, drinking craft spirits, listening to all kinds of books and podcasts, and being walked by his two faithful canine companions Captain Jack and Bella.

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Panel Discussion - How to Avoid or Deal with Risks at Your Venue or Next Event
3:00 - 4:00 pm

Come hear experts from the Oregon Convention Center, the Oregon Zoo, and Metro share their tips on dealing with risks and crisis at their venues and how they work with their clients.

• Matt Uchtman, Director of Facilities & Operations with the Oregon Convention Center. OCC’s response to the wildfire evacuation last year and assisting the Red Cross and Multnomah County Shelter in the venue.

• Courtney Patterson, Emergency Manager with Metro. Omicron staff shortages for our agency.

• Leslie Kantor, EJS Program Manager with the Oregon Zoo. Relocation of the condors from the Zoo’s breeding center in Oregon City during the wildfires two seasons ago. Maintaining operation with a generator throughout the event to run the freezer for the condor feed.

Listen to each panelist share an experience, or two, that they recently dealt with and their thoughts.  They are ready for your questions!

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