Itinerary
Event Planning Day 1
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08:00 Hours
Welcome Registration
Carol Moxam, CSEP First Sergeant, Special Event Boot Camp
8:30 Hours Hours
Initiation Platoon Zone
Scott Kress,SummitTraining Development Ltd& Frontier Group
In today’s competitive marketplace and challenging economy, keeping your teams motivated and leaders focused is more important than ever. Learn the tools, strategy, and inspiration to excel your teams. Techniques that inspire teams and motivate leaders. Facilitation to take your meeting to the next level.
10:30 Hours
Snack Zone with Art Seal
10:45 Hours
The Base Zone
Dana Kaluzny, Steam Whistle Brewing
Location, Location, Location. Building your event architecture requires attention to detail. Steam Whistle Brewing occupies the historic John Street Roundhouse in the heart of downtown Toronto. You walk the experience first hand in at this award winning venue, and understand the logistics to build your event, implementing green strategies, as well as how to use a versatile space.
11:15 Hours
The Green Zone
Jaye Marsh Graham It’s Personal Occasion
Part 1: Through the lens of an imagined event troops will experience the ‘greening’ process of an event from conception to possible execution complete with ‘stuff’ to play with and real supplier information. Troops will discover which elements are the same and which are different in a green event; where compromise is met with creativity and how to overcome the real-world challenge of convincing the client and/or suppliers to ‘go green’.
Part 2: What does a green event look like? Like ANY event, it’s the story behind the suppliers and execution where you find the real shift to green. Green does NOT mean dowdy or ‘park ranger day’! Bring the details of a current or recently past event of any kind to apply the same thought process to a real-world example.
12:15 Hours
Mess Hall Zone - Catered Lunch
13:00 Hours
Social Media Brand Experience Zone Andrew Horberry, Imagination
Learn how to identify your client’s brand attributes, how to bring them to life in exciting brand experiences, and how social media can help you do some of this on a low budget - or for free! You’ll leave this zone knowing which five books you need to read, five social media you need to be familiar with, and five cutting-edge examples of brand experience that you can apply to your next project. All in 60 minutes or less. Hang on - it’s going to be a fast ride!
14:00 Hours
Snack Zone with
Ontario Tourism Education Council
Event Coordinator & Event Manager Certification
14:15 Hours
Cause Marketing Zone
Martin Rubio, VROOMmedia
How do you raise awareness and raise funds for these very worthy causes that surround us and need help now more than ever? How do you create buzz and motivate others to give to charitable and non-profits organizations in this tough economic environment?
Be prepared to learn more about how to create unique experiential cause marketing events. We will teach you how to put the FUN back into fundraising! We will show you how through world record breaking events, celebrity driven events, social media driven events, grassroots community driven events, we inspired and engaged others to give and make a difference! We don’t only need to pull at the emotional heart strings, but more importantly we need to inspire and engage the very informed consumer. Leading Corporations with their brands are becoming more socially responsible and connecting to the ever increasing socially conscious consumer.
Participating in this jam packed hour you will also be introduced to representatives of the SickKids Foundation “Healthier Children A Better World”, the Daily Challenge – “The Social Network for Do Gooders”, and Be a Woman “expressions of life”.
We will challenge and inspire you to be a better citizen of this world!
15:00 Hours
Logistics Zone
Dharmesh Dayabhai, Streampoint Solutions
Learn about the world of registration. It is more than just a click and pay solution. Get inline with all the various Solutions and learn about what system is right for your event.
How can you use registration to increase your attendance? How can registration be utilized to increase your environmental footprint?
We will learn the importance of registration and make it part of the process for the event. Ensuring all component are tied in and executed with ease.
Be prepared to learn how to estimate your line ups and durations for your event.
16:30 Hours
Motivation & Keynote Zone
Scott Kress,
What can you learn from the MBA professor who climbed
Scott’s gripping presentation will show you how and why he became the 51st Canadian to summit
As a climber and guide for over 20 years, Scott has summited peaks throughout the world. He in now almost finished climbing the “7 Summits”; the highest peak on each of the 7 continents. Only a hand-full of Canadians have accomplished this to date. Through his inspiring story of triumph, challenge, determination, and sometimes failure, Scott shows audiences that we are all climbers looking to summit our own mountains. By rising to the challenge of change and continuous improvement, he demonstrates how the lessons learned in the mountains are directly applicable to any organization’s challenges.
Scott’s high-energy presentation will immediately get the attention of your audience and keep it. Scott educates, entertains, and motivates while imparting wisdom critical in achieving success. Most importantly, your audience will leave with a better understanding of what it takes to reach the summits in their own personal and professional lives.
War Stories
Join us for an evening on the patio with professionals.
Deborah Lewis,
Tracey Manailescu & Danielle Andrews Sunkel,
Wedding Planning
Christina Korda, Windsor Arms Hotel
Event Production Day 2
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8:00 Hours
Survival Zone
Cindy Johnson, Platinum Events Group
Are you working more than 12 Hours per Day?
Are you living a balanced life?
Are you happy or displeased when someone interrupts your workday?
Do you work hours without eating and never even notice? And no coffee does not count!
Push up’s with Boot Camp’s Drill Sergeant Johnson for the event professional. With just days before an event we often go hours upon hours without eating or better yet grabbing and anything quick to eat while on the run. Days become nights and weekends. Email’s are being sent in the wee hours of the morning. Energy, networking, and our environments are constantly changing!
Here comes the intense survival skills in planning your events and planning your life. Be prepared to work it with this Drill Sergeant.
09:30 Hours
Decor & Design - "Out of the Box" Zone
Leslee Bell, Decor More Inc.
All elements of an event need to be in harmony for a successful event. Great décor, sumptuous food, fabulous entertainment, and dramatic lighting when crafted in balance, result in a perfect environment. Leslee will educate recruits on working with your designer to create a look to the client’s mandate, corporate branding or image, the venue, the logistics, the timing, the demographics of the audience, budget and then create the best environments based on the parameters.
Snack Zone with High Tech Tattoos
HiTechTattoos provides a range of customization services to the consumer and corporate market. Laser engraved items with any logo text or artwork you want. Bring your laptop, cell phone, iPod or any other device and get it customized.
11:00 Hours
Internship Zone
Carol Moxam, CSEP
Special Event Boot Camp
Recruit, Train, Retain, and Development of an internship team.
Our organization learns from the intern as well as interns learning from us. It is a win-win. We offer guidance,
management, patience, constructive feedback and mentoring. We have benefited with technology tips, resource management, creative ideas, business contacts and an investment in time to complete our extensive list of work tasks.
12:00 Hours
Mess Hall Zone - Officers Quarters
13:00 Hours
Production Zone
Simon Rayment, Pandor
Entertainment Zone
Vanessa Engel,The Dance Company
The focus of this presentation will be on the benefits of hiring entertainers to enhance the theme of your event. It will offer ideas and suggestions that will keep you on budget and allow your clients to have a customized and unique event that is memorable and enjoyable for all. We will also discuss what entertainers need onsite , and what information you will need and should have to ensure your entertainment can perform to the best of their ability.
16:00 Hours
Documentary Zone
Suzanne Merrett, Amara Studios
Wedding Day Memories
The event story - how a picture is worth a thousand words and your portfolio is your business opportunity.
15:30 Hours
Special Event Boot Camp Graduation & Reception
Salute to our Officers
