EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR FOR ESTONIAN MEETING PROFESSIONALS 14 November 2012 Meriton Grand Conference & Spa Hotel
SPEAKERS
Ulrike von Arnold, Vienna Convention Bureau Ulrike von Arnold is Deputy Director of the Vienna Tourist Board's Vienna Convention Bureau and a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), where she represents the Sector Destination Marketing, which comprises the City Convention Bureaus as well as regional and national convention bureaus. She has been with the Vienna Convention Bureau since 1995 as Marketing Manager for Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries, and has been Director Christian Mutschlechner's deputy since 2004. Before joining the convention bureau, she worked as Marketing Director for Radisson SAS International Hotels Copenhagen and Meeting Manager for SAS International Hotels.
Jurriaen Sleijster, MCI Group Jurriaen Sleijster is the Executive Vice President of MCI, a global Event Management, Communication & Association Management company, and is based at their HQ in Geneva, Switzerland. MCI organises over 3’000 events annually and manages a budget in excess of €300 million. Sleijster started working in the meetings industry in 1989 and his professional track record includes the management of the congress department of the European Society of Cardiology, and management of an Events Agency in the UK. During his now 11 years with MCI, the company grew from 3 offices & 120 staff to an international Group with 1’300 staff and 47 offices in 23 countries. Jurriaen holds an MBA from SKEMA Business School in France, and is an alumnus of executive education programmes at Insead, Harvard Business School, IMD and IESE.