The Evening
March 4, 2010, 6:00 to 10:00 PM
On March 4, in the Panorama Room of Ottawa's National Arts Centre, an event will unfold that's been 25 years in the making.
This event couldn't have been further from Mitchell Beer's mind in 1984 when he sat at his kitchen table and scribbled a plan for a one-person editorial and communications firm called "InfoLink Consultants Inc."
And in 1984, Mitchell certainly couldn't have predicted that the company's initial forays into reporting on conferences would eventually sharpen into a new focus—capturing and repurposing content from meetings and events—and a new name: The Conference Publishers.
The journey has been fascinating, and it has taken us into some very exciting rooms in more than 200 communities across North America, and in 15 countries. Occasionally we've been privileged to watch history being made.
And more than 3,000 times, we have helped our clients tell their stories: from the international effort to eradicate landmines, to the development of the powerful drugs that turned HIV infection from a death sentence into a manageable chronic condition. We've helped clients develop agendas for action to carry forward their work, inform their members, and change the world.
We think we have a lot to be proud of. A lot to celebrate. And we hope you'll be our guests. (Dinner is on us.) We'd like to ask you for a couple of things, though. If you have any memories (or memorabilia!) from our company's first 25 years, bring them along to share. And we're requesting that our guests contribute $50 to an important cause.
One of our first clients was the Canadian Public Health Association, so it seemed only natural and appropriate that we celebrate our 25th year in business by directing all of the evening's proceeds to the CPHA's flagship global health program, Strengthening of Public Health Associations (SOPHA), which is just one year younger than The Conference Publishers.
See you on March 4!
