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PCMA Convening Leaders 2023: A Look Back

The PCMA Convening Leaders conference has come and gone through this great city that we called home. And it was a great opportunity to volunteer with during the four days, as well.

Convening Leaders will be in sunny San Diego in 2024, and they have a tough task to top the welcome that Columbus brought to PCMA and Convening Leaders.

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#Repost @mayra37055 with @get_repost ・・・ #nashvilleguitar #guitar #nashville #downtown 😄🎼 #PCMACL #pcmacl18

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Yep that’s Steve Cropper of Booker T & The MG’s and The Blues Brothers Band, amongst others! #PCMACL (at The Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum)

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‪Great Main Stage discussion by Scott Belsky on how to be proactive about what matters most to us to "Make Ideas Happen." #PCMACL‬ #eventprofs #meetingprofs (at Austin Convention Center)

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Event Planners Should Be Bold and Courageous: Highlights from PCMA Convening Leaders 2018

If there’s one thing Deboarah Sexton has asked us in her 13 years as PCMA CEO: it’s to challenge the norm. To be bold and courageous in our event design and content. This is exactly what the PCMA team did at this year’s Convening Leaders Annual Conference, which marked Sexton’s last conference as CEO. Here are some ways PCMA helped us challenge the norm this year: PCMA’s Mind-Blowing Keynotes Neri Oxman opened her morning keynote by saying that the secret of life is to have a singular philosophy you can apply to everything. “The secret to life: have one philosophy, and apply that philosophy to everything you do.”—Neri Oxman (Click to Tweet) She went on to describe the amazing work her company was doing to bring the disparate fields of art, science, engineering, and design together. Her goal is to create seamless spaces and products that function as a singular unit, rather than a series of parts.

We all think through the lens of our experiences. Innovation starts when we start seeing through different lenses and applying it to real world problems. – @NeriOxman‘s response on what her #pcmacl keynote has to do with the events industry. pic.twitter.com/9TZ21DPKG3 — Scott Lum (@ScottLum) January 8, 2018

Essentially, Oxman was asking us to bring our events together into one cohesive experience. No more trade show this, education that. She was suggesting that modern events need to flow and feel like a single contiuous thread. General Stanley McChrystal, PCMA’s afternoon keynote, also reinforced this in an interview with Convene. He said that the best conferences he’s been to run a narrative through their conference, so much so that attendees can feel it. Attendees are all there for a reason, for a common goal, and it’s evident in all they participate in. And that’s what makes the best conferences seem a bit like magic. “[At the best conferences,] there is a narrative that runs through the conference and you can feel it.”—General McChrstal (Click to Tweet) A good conference surprises and delights attendees. It guides attendees to make connections among disparate and seemingly unrelated information. PCMA’s Guinness Book of World Records Attempt Being bold is not without risks. Deborah Sexton took the initiative this year to attempt to break a Guinness World Record. PCMA attendees tried to set the record for most people assembled in the shape of a musical instrument. Unfortunately, the record was not broken this time around.

We didn’t break the record but it was oh so fun! Thank you #PCMACL @GMCPCMA @PCMACC @pcmahq pic.twitter.com/57Cd2BluvN — Heather Larson, CMP (@MeetHeatherL) January 10, 2018

Still, it was a bold attempt and got over 3,000 people together in a small park in Nashville. Imagine the networking opportunities!

Amazing idea – and it is ok to still be aspirational – we don’t have to break every record to make meaningful engagement #PCMACL https://t.co/NbrvOGUrmf — Tahira Endean CMP+ (@TahiraCreates) January 10, 2018

Taking risks doesn’t always mean success, but success is also relative. While announcing that the goal was not achieved, Sexton reminded those who did participate that there’s always next year. Even though she’s leaving PCMA as CEO, she’s leaving the organization in good hands. PCMA’s Future of Face2Face Zone PCMA also changed up their traditional tech pods this year, introducing an educational concept similar in format to ASAE’s XDP Conference. Participants were given earbuds and allowed to paritipate in multiple sessions, or watch mainstage

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Loved working with @ShawnCheng at the #DigiTechBar in #TechCentral 4 #PCMACL (at Vancouver Convention Centre)

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Helping Hands Day at Cradles to Crayons in Boston

PCMA Convening Leaders is finally here! We kicked off the event as in year's past, with the annual Hospitality Helping Hands day. This year, the event was held at Cradles to Crayons, an organization that provides Massachusetts children in need with the essentials they need to feel safe, warm, ready to learn and valued. 

Nearly 150 PCMA CL attendees boarded buses early this morning to donate two hours at the Cradles to Crayons Giving Factory. The warehouse was incredible. Filled from floor to ceiling with donations ranging from coats, boots and gloves to toys to art supplies and more. 

Before we started sorting and cleaning, we learned that Cradles to Crayons believes that "quality = dignity." They believe that families and children receiving donations deserve to have the same quality in their clothing, toys and supplies as any other child does and that Cradles to Crayons donations should enable every child in need to live with dignity. To meet this standard, every single donation goes through at least three inspections before being donated. They look to make sure all items are clean, have all the pieces necessary to work (including batteries), and are free of rips and tears.

We were quickly put into groups, and the Giving Factory became close to what I can only describe as Santa's Workshop. People were putting together puzzles, testing toy trains, hula-hooping and folding and sorting shirts. Others were filling actual orders placed by homeless shelters and social workers, creating giving kits that will be delivered to children as soon as next week.

  We learned that Cradles to Crayons delivers over 17,000 coats per winter to Massachusetts children, and more than 13,000 pairs of hats and gloves. This is their busiest time of year.

Today, PCMA volunteers triaged donation items for 168 kids, created 215 outfit packs (each pack contains a week's worth of clothing for one child), cleaned and sorted toys for 290 children, cleaned and sorted books for 275 children, paired and cleaned 209 pairs of shoes, cleaned and sorted 235 coats and filled orders for 80 kid packs. I'd say it was a productive morning!

At the end of our session, we presented Cradles to Crayons with a check for more than $6,600. It was a terrific and moving morning and we thank PCMA for organizing Helping Hands day every year.

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Last night I saw the great Willie Nelson at #PCMACL and then some random band at a Rainey St. bar. I never thought I'd say this, but the guys who's name I don't know were WAY better than Willie Nelson.

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‪No place we'd rather be than with our fellow #eventprofs at #PCMACL! ‬#Freeman #meetingprofs #meetingplanners #digital (at Austin Convention Center)

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@carson73 and I hanging out in the #DigiTechBar in #TechCentral #PCMACL

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This is how we roll! #pcmacl

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It’s hard not to dig a girl with a guitar! #PCMACL (at Cannery Ballroom)