 MCLEAN, VA – February 24, 2012 –
Cvent, the world’s
largest cloud-based provider of meeting
management,
venue
selection
and web
survey
solutions, today announced the Corporate Meetings Summit, a gathering
for
corporate meeting and travel executives. The three-day event will take
place on
February 29 – March 2, 2012 at the Gaylord National Resort &
Convention
Center, near Washington, D.C. Steve Singh, CEO of Concur Technologies,
Inc.,
will give the opening keynote for the event, and will be followed by
presentations from executives and managers at The Coca-Cola Company,
Bank of
New York Mellon Corporation, Raytheon Company, and more. “We are thrilled to have over 200 attendees from both Fortune 500 and leading meeting management companies joining us in-person for this event,” said Chuck Ghoorah, Cvent’s Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “The industry has responded with incredible interest and so far we already have an additional 1,000 professionals who plan to view sessions online as they are broadcast live from the event.” The Corporate Meetings Summit will feature sessions that offer best practices for strategic sourcing, technology implementation and mitigating risk, along with case studies that discuss real-world successes. It will also feature a hotel executive panel, which will be broadcast live online on Thursday, March 1 from 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET. Titled, “Strategies to Get Your Meeting RFP Top Priority Attention,” the panel is free to the public and will touch on tips and strategies that meeting and travel professionals can implement when negotiating business with suppliers. The panelists include:
About Cvent  Founded in 1999, Cvent is the world’s
largest meetings and
event management technology company and has over 900 employees
worldwide. Cvent
offers web-based software for meeting site selection, online event
registration, event management, e-mail marketing, and web surveys, and
helps
over 90,000 users in 50 countries manage hundreds of thousands of
events,
surveys and e-mail campaigns. The company has processed over $2 billion
in
online payments and has managed over 30 million event registrations and
survey
responses for its clients. Cvent’s client base ranges from small
non-profits to
large corporations, and includes over 30 companies from the Fortune
100. A
leading authority on Strategic Meetings Management (SMM), Cvent’s
technology
has been used to implement SMM programs around the world. For more
information,
please visit www.cvent.com.Connect with Cvent:
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