MPI BREAKS, your new monthly source of inspiration and industry insights! Each month, our Chapter President will dive into a topic designed to spark ideas and enrich your perspective. BREAKS = Business, Research, Environment, Accessibility, Knowledge, Suppliers

This monthly article series allows MPI Ottawa Chapter members to share their recent professional and personal accomplishments with the MPI community by highlighting the News Around Town. Get in touch with Jordan Potter to make a submission for the next issue!

This monthly article series allows MPI Ottawa Chapter members to share their recent professional and personal accomplishments with the MPI community by highlighting the News Around Town. Get in touch with Jordan Potter to make a submission for the next issue!

MPI BREAKS, your new monthly source of inspiration and industry insights! Each month, our Chapter President will dive into a topic designed to spark ideas and enrich your perspective. BREAKS = Business, Research, Environment, Accessibility, Knowledge, Suppliers

MPI BREAKS, your new monthly source of inspiration and industry insights! Each month, our Chapter President will dive into a topic designed to spark ideas and enrich your perspective. BREAKS = Business, Research, Environment, Accessibility, Knowledge, Suppliers

The Prix Prestige 2024 Awards Gala exemplified a sense of camaraderie and the spirit of volunteerism. It demonstrated that the effort put into such an event is rewarded by the shared celebration of excellence, community, and the chapter’s enduring legacy.

This monthly article series allows MPI Ottawa Chapter members to share their recent professional and personal accomplishments with the MPI community by highlighting the News Around Town. Get in touch with Disa Cameron (disa.cameron@encoreglobal.com) to make a submission for the next issue!

MPI BREAKS, your new monthly source of inspiration and industry insights! Each month, our Chapter President will dive into a topic designed to spark ideas and enrich your perspective. BREAKS = Business, Research, Environment, Accessibility, Knowledge, Suppliers

This monthly article series allows MPI Ottawa Chapter members to share their recent professional and personal accomplishments with the MPI community by highlighting the News Around Town. Get in touch with Disa Cameron (disa.cameron@encoreglobal.com) to make a submission for the next issue!

MPI BREAKS, your new monthly source of inspiration and industry insights! Each month, our Chapter President will dive into a topic designed to spark ideas and enrich your perspective. BREAKS = Business, Research, Environment, Accessibility, Knowledge, Suppliers

After 18 months, this will be my final President’s Message to you. It has been said: “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” To see where this chapter is after COVID, to see where this Board is after 18 months of service (versus the standard 12 months), this quote has never rung truer than today. I am so proud of this Board and this chapter, how we have grown and how much we stronger we are 18 months later. It's been a while since my last message, so I’d like to highlight the incredible work the team has done over the last few months.

This monthly article series allows MPI Ottawa Chapter members to share their recent professional and personal accomplishments with the MPI community by highlighting the News Around Town. Get in touch with Disa Cameron (disa.cameron@encoreglobal.com) to make a submission for the next issue!

MPI Ottawa Education Committee hosted an insightful and engaging online event on Wednesday, November 6. Award-winning speaker, storyteller, author and respected Blackfoot ceremonialist cultural carrier Elder Camille Pablo Russell led an interactive session focused on the importance of connection and how we can all build bridges between communities.

Reflecting on the EVENT and preparing for 2025’s presidency, I am energized and excited for what comes next. The connections we made, the knowledge we gained, and the ideas we exchanged will undoubtedly propel us forward in our work and collaborations.

As event planners, we know that every experience we create can present its own distinctive set of challenges. How about planning an event for the first time ever at a decommissioned prison…with no utilities or facilities (except electricity)…for a group of Association Executives…with a hurricane?

As the event landscape changes and the continued and evolving development of computer systems performing tasks humans normally do, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into event planning and management has become a game-changer. AI can streamline processes, provide deeper insights and enhance overall event experiences. Here are the top three ways AI is revolutionizing the meetings and events industry for MPI Ottawa members.

This monthly article series allows MPI Ottawa Chapter members to share their recent professional and personal accomplishments with the MPI community by highlighting the News Around Town. Get in touch with Disa Cameron (disa.cameron@encoreglobal.com) to make a submission for the next issue!

I am writing my quarterly message immediately after attending Ottawa’s City of Om Festival. The festival (which I did not attend in an MPI capacity) is the city’s largest health and wellness festival open to all who want to deepen their passion for overall wellness. For yet another year, “Event Planner” has been ranked one of the most stressful jobs in the world by Indeed. Like many Event Professionals, I recently began to reevaluate my relationship with my job and I’m actively trying to incorporate more wellness and healthy habits into my daily life to achieve some sense of balance.

MPI Ottawa exists thanks to and, because of the commitment, expertise, and goodwill of volunteers - without volunteers there would be no MPI Ottawa, period. And, while our volunteers don't expect anything in return, it is extremely rewarding when all the hard work gets a bit of recognition from colleagues at home and away. That's exactly what happened recently when our Education Committee received word that it has been nominated for an MPI Global Rise Award for Innovative Educational Programming!

For those of us lucky enough to gather at the beautiful Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata on April 11, 2024, took a few hours out of our busy day to pause and recognize the impact our meetings have and celebrate each other. We were also able to reflect on how we can best sustain our own mental health and support each other along the way, encouraged by Keynote speaker, sponsored by TA Speakers Management, Tonia Jahshan during her presentation “Self-Sustainability – Soldiering on with Self Awareness”.