At Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP), we are bullish about 2023 for several reasons.

As meeting planners and organizers ramp-up their event coordination efforts, they’re faced with challenges to host effective in-person, online, and hybrid events that create memorable experiences and capture new attendees.

Becoming a memorable, engaging and effective presenter is part art and part science…

FICP Executive Director Steve Bova, CAE, offers some insight into the challenges and trends facing this industry in the coming year.

There are many instances of short-term partnerships with suppliers that qualify as a success. A firm running an incentive trip, for example, may partner with a DMC at the destination, receive great service and never work with that supplier again — only because the firm never happened to repeat that destination. But the most salient examples of successful relationships with suppliers are those where the client receives great service over many meetings, i.e., the long-term partnership.

Planners wage a never-ending battle against Murphy’s Law, which says that what can go wrong probably will. That’s why it’s rare that events proceed completely flawless from beginning to end. Events typically can survive minor slip-ups, some of which attendees may not even notice. But big blunders can ruin an event or make attendees so […]

Motivational sales training is evolving from an event to a continuous process.

The prospect of a meeting disruption is more a matter of “when” than “if.”

Relationships with suppliers can be both collaborative and/or supportive.

The financial and Insurance meetings industry will continue to tread cautiously among economic pressures as well as domestic and global uncertainties.