ABOUT US

At Meetings & Incentives Worldwide (M&IW), we specialize in the end-to-end event management of meetings, conferences, and incentives of all shapes and sizes around the world. We also specialize in enterprise program strategy across organizations.

When our clients had to quickly pivot from in-person events to “live” virtual and digital experiences, it redefined and magnified the role of the event technologist. In this episode, our host, Jeff Naue, Special Projects Marketing Lead, connects with Chip Begley, our Director of Event...

In this episode, our host, Jeff Naue, interviews our award-winning Event Design Manager, Alexander deHilster, on reimagining events and creating experiences. Hear how Alexander’s aha! moment reshaped his perspective of event design for future in-person events as he takes us through the changing role and...

M&IW’s newest edition to the Incentive and Recognition Team, Sandy Fenili, CIS, worked for a major Fortune 50 corporation that ran extremely successful, multi-award incentive and recognition programs. Sandy was instrumental in optimizing corporate incentive and recognition programs during the last market downturn in 2008....

Welcome to the Events > Forward Podcast by Meetings & Incentives Worldwide. In this episode, our host, Jeff Naue, Special Projects Marketing Lead, catches up with Denise Farrell, Director of Procurement and Vicki Schmitz, Senior Manager of Procurement, to discuss the changes that event managers...

Our host, Jeff Naue, Special Projects Marketing Lead, and Samantha Gehrke, Senior Manager of Group Travel, talk about safety protocols, group travel updates, and need-to-know information as our client groups safely return to the skies. This is very uncharted territory for both the airlines and our customers. Consistently...

Welcome to the first episode of Events > Forward, a Podcast for live and virtual events. Our host, Jeff Naue, Special Projects Marketing Lead, and Mae Ibe, CMP, Director of Conferences and Tradeshows, talk about the development of the Events > Forward Task Force and...

Gone are the days of trying to fit a myriad of technical requirements into just one meeting and event (M&E) technology platform. With the advent of open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) along with collaboration and business intelligence tools, today’s M&E technology objectives can be achieved...

A hot topic among all organizations is how event design will help us reimagine public and business spaces for gatherings of all shapes and sizes. Our Event Design team has been proactive in visualizing space design for the future of in-person live events in top venues around the...

Tracking and reporting event analytics has improved significantly in the last five years. Yet, many organizations still struggle with how to best build a business intelligence (BI) strategy for their events and implement a process to make data-driven decisions. Session Objectives:    Join David Sachs, Director of Business...