71 Convention Connections Premier convention centers and hotels that jointly market their meeting and exhibit facilities 72 Austin CVB 74 Experience Columbus 76 Ocean Center Daytona Beach
78 Myrtle Beach 80 Nashville Music City Center
82 Pasadena CVB 84 Phoenix Convention Center
86 Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel
88 ProvidenceWarwick CVB 90 Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel
92 St. Louis CVC 94 San Jose Hotels Inc. 96 Scottish Exhibition + Conference Centre
98 Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Julie Ritzer Ross
Scott Klososky 62 Technology and leadership expert: “An evolutionary change is, we’re now going to pass out the PowerPoints on a USB drive. A revolutionary change is, we’re going to engage the speakers in a completely different way.” Christopher Durso
Sheena Iyengar 66 Columbia Business School professor: “Choice has its limitations. One of the things that we fail to recognize is that to get the most out of choice, you have to be choosy about choosing.” Barbara Palmer
Features
CONVENING LEADERS FOLLOW-UP 61 Sitting down with two Masters Series speakers from PCMA 2011 Convening Leaders
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Departments Plenary 13
The flight that Twitter made. Pre Con: SXSW Trade Show. Post Con: RSNA 2010.
Plus: the great Minneapolis solar array; rise of the machines;
104 Convene on Site.
Leading Learning 20 WhyWe Can’t Think Differently
Jeffrey Cufaude
Urban Planner 24 Indianapolis
International Meetings: Asia Rising 26 The Lesson of
the Cherry Blossom Michelle Russell
Innovative Meetings 28 Attendees JustWant to Have Fun
Scott Cullather
Giving Back 30 Surplus Good Barbara Palmer
Other Duties as Assigned 104 Step Right Up GloryWade