SPiN:Senior Planners Industry Network is the world’s largest association of senior-level planners (those with 10-plus years of experience). The network offers two membership levels along with branch events around the country, such as online learning opportunities (SPiN:Labs and SPiN:Roundtables) and virtual hosted buyer appointments. We pride ourselves as being an association by planners and for planners.
Our fifth annual conference, SPiNCon, is an award-winning annual event that is 100 percent about the whole person with a life outside of name badges. SPiNCon offers educational opportunities with three distinctive tracks focusing on the planner’s “Brain, Body and Being,” and discusses current needs, frustrations and opportunities. There will be small discussion circles led by experts and peers on life challenges. We’ll also have activities to stimulate the whole person, including an off-site outing.
SPiNCon is one of the few conferences that limits supplier participation to 33 percent of overall attendance, allowing greater relationship building throughout the conference. SPiNCon’s Virtual Hosted Buyer Program is the industry’s only hosted buyer program that takes place before the conference, creating working relationships and contacts prior to attending.
SPiNCon 2015 takes place November 15-17 at the Hilton Chicago/ Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center. For more information and to register, visit spincon.spinplanners.com.
Catherine Jensen learned about meetings and events as a preschool teacher planning bike-a-thon fundraisers for 3- to 5-year-olds. She currently is the communications manager for SPiN: Senior Planners Industry Network.
The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, celebrated its 10th anniversary with its first fundraising gala “Undercover of the Night” on Feb. 17 at the museum’s historic building in downtown Las Vegas. The museum can be booked for private meetings and events, with several function spaces and buyouts available.
Event Highlights
While Ernest Hemingway frequented several places across the globe throughout his lifetime, Walloon Lake, Michigan, was a place he had roots in and returned to in his early years. His father and mother, Dr. Clarence and Grace (Hall) Hemingway first came to the Walloon Lake area in the late 1800s, building their beloved cottage, Windemere, which remains in the family to this day. Ernest was just three months old when he made his first trip to the area.
With the events industry at a near standstill, Jess Doren realized this may have been the moment she’d been waiting for. Having produced large-scale events for big brands like Apple and Buzzfeed, she’d had little time in the past to develop events of her own, but this past summer, she and a team of fellow event pros set out to gather a community craving connection.