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What MPI Membership Provides: A Positive Difference

Our mission at MPI is simple: to make our members successful. This is why MPI is leading the charge to make meetings and events, and those who produce them, a key strategic component of every organization’s business.

When you join MPI, you’ll receive world-class education customized to your level and position and opportunities to build professional relationships with key contacts within the meetings and events industry. For planners, MPI provides you with the specific education, contacts, and tools you need to execute more effective meetings that further the organization’s overall strategic goals and demonstrate ROI. For suppliers, MPI means business via exposure for your company to over 10,000 planners with average budgets over $1.5 million.

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As the largest and most influential professional association for the meetings and events industry, MPI is your connection to more than 23,000 meeting planners and industry suppliers worldwide. Your membership entitles you to access the wealth of education, research and networking resources MPI has to offer and provides you with discounts on conferences and publications. It also gives you the opportunity to network with colleagues through local and online communities.

You can download our registration forms here or join online:

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Ten Great Reasons to Join MPI

1. The Power of Connection: MPI’s global community is 23,000 members strong and comprised of powerful decision-makers representing more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies. Through membership, you can make crucial connections to people, ideas, and marketplaces which can take your business or your career to the next level.

2. Leave the Learning to Us: MPI’s dynamic new web site design captures all of the greatest educational content for member exclusive access. Also, MPI’s Global Training Program provides you with a customized learning path that ensures appropriate career and personal development as you prepare for obtaining your certifications.

3. Establish Your Roots: On a local level, you’ll make valuable, lasting connections through local chapter involvement. It’s an ongoing opportunity for industry professionals to share information, support one another, create mutually beneficial alliances, and raise national awareness for their local professional community.

4. The Insider Scoop: As an MPI member, you’ll receive our award-winning magazine One+. Members also get MPI News, our exclusive weekly e-newsletter featuring up-to-the-minute reports on the latest news, industry developments, career enhancements and MPI initiatives.

5. Raise Your Profile: Our professional certification opportunities set the standard for the meetings and events industry and guarantee you receive the best training in the business.

6. Spotlight Your Brand: Market your business to a global audience by utilizing MPI’s global marketplace, and advertising on MPIWeb.org, MPI News and in One+ magazine.

7. In-The-Office Assistance: MPI continuously develops online resources and provides many educational options through its website, giving you essential skill development without needless travel time and expense. Also, MPI members have online access to vital education, research and data, which support the business case for the strategic value of meetings.

8. Keep Pace with the Global Industry: Our conferences present a wealth of educational offerings from small discussion groups to news-making keynote presentations, and CEUs are awarded for participation in general sessions and workshops.

9. Get Recognized: The MPI RISE Awards—Recognizing Industry Success and Excellence— honor the best of the best, both inside and outside MPI, and emphasize transformational change, innovation, global transferability, and industry impact.

10. On the Job: MPI’s online career portal, Career Connections, provides free access to industry-specific opportunities and a library of helpful articles. Job-seeking MPI members can use the job site for free.