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Spotlight on Conference, Event and Association Management

Sea to Sky Meeting and Association Management will be focusing the spotlight on upcoming events, news and issues in the association and event management industry in BC, across Canada and around the world. We welcome your comments and any ideas or issues you would like us to discuss. Just contact Sarah Lowis, Founder and Impact Officer, at sarah@seatoskymeetings.com.

Talking Garbage:  Six ways to reduce non-food waste at your events (Ignite article)
30-11-2023
Follow the guidance of Ian Holliday, Sea to Sky Meeting and Association President, on putting the Earth First by reading an article from the Ignite Magazine where he offers advice.
Using Consent Agendas for Highly Functioning Boards
30-08-2021
Assisting our clients to run effective and efficient meetings is a daily occurrence. Whether it is a meeting about an upcoming event, a Board of Directors meeting or a bi-annual Board Retreat, those attending want the meeting to be productive and worthwhile. We assist the meeting’s Chair by helping prepare for the meeting in a variety of ways.
How your association’s board can effectively fulfill its strategic role
24-03-2021
I am a member of the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE). One benefit I really appreciate, along with the excellent library, is the webinar series. When I am thinking about a topic, I often find myself on the CSAE website to see what resources exist on that topic.
How to become a high performance association
24-03-2021
If you’re a leader of (or in) a professional association, you’ll be working with your peers to make it more financially secure, more effective in representing the interests of the membership, better at recruiting new members and better at retaining existing ones. That is what you want for your association, isn’t it? Good.
An interesting team meeting about hybrids – coffee, bikes and hotels
17-03-2021
At our last meeting, Sea to Sky’s team had an interesting discussion about balancing virtual and in-person meetings. In our emerging reality of hybrid meetings, how do we balance the experience and expectations of attendees physically located in a meeting room with remote attendees?
October 2020 – What have we learned in 6 months?
06-10-2020
Tagoras chose a very timely moment (April 2020) to ask meeting planners to “assess the role of virtual conferences, trade shows and other events, and provide insight into how these events may evolve.” Fair to assume that the results of that survey could only be amplified six months later, as in-person conferences and meetings are not yet scheduled on anyone’s calendar and we are getting used to virtual everything.
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Spotlight on:

Association Management
  • Using Consent Agendas for Highly Functioning Boards
  • How to become a high performance association
  • How your association’s board can effectively fulfill its strategic role
  • Musings on engagement and movement during a pandemic
  • Virtual Meetings in Many Forms
  • Library Generations – From Catalogue, Bilateral, Computer Debutants to Virtual
  • The benefits of continuous improvement
  • How to develop a strategic management model
  • How to maintain healthy staff-board relationships
  • Seven steps to rock your board
  • How to build an effective board
Conferences, Meetings & Special Events
  • October 2020 – What have we learned in 6 months?
  • Five Best Practices for Online Program Delivery
  • Musings on engagement and movement during a pandemic
  • Myth busters around virtual meetings
  • Calm, cool and collected, virtually speaking
  • Making the Pivot to Virtual in 6 weeks
  • Virtual Meetings in Many Forms
  • A Case against Conference Swag
  • Reducing plastic waste in the meeting industry
  • The Conference is over…now what?
  • Looking back and looking forward
  • Drums, Indabas and Potato Runs – Great examples of local culture infused into programming
  • Pacifying a protest
  • The trends disrupting the meetings and events industry
  • Money and meetings – crunching the numbers
  • Three steps for a successful conference
  • Hosting an international meeting – the why and the how
  • How to avoid attrition
  • Looking after the money
  • How to future proof event planning
  • Why Vancouver is Hot! in the Summer!
  • The devil is in the details
Registration Services
  • How to help people attend your conference
Sea to Sky Team
  • An interesting team meeting about hybrids – coffee, bikes and hotels
  • Virtual Meetings in Many Forms
  • Sea to Sky Partners with the Living Forest Institute
  • The art of bragging
  • Sarah Lowis added CAE to CMP, CMM and BA
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  • Getting started in the events industry
  • Learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know

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