Mitchell Beer, CMM, President & CEO
Profession: Chief company strategist, conference content specialist.
Years of experience: Seven as a journalist, twenty-plus as a conference publisher.
Industry affiliations: Member, board of directors and co-chair, conference program committee, Green Meeting Industry Council. Member, Standards Review Council, CIC Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX). Columnist, MeetingsNet Extra, published by Penton Media Inc. Vice President-Communications and Chair, Green Meetings Task Force, MPI Ottawa Chapter, 2007–2008. Member, Board of Trustees, MPI Foundation Canada, 2005–2008. Project manager, study of the economic impact of the Canadian meetings industry, MPI Foundation Canada, 2007–2008.
Industry recognition: MPI Ottawa Supplier of the Year, 2003, Volunteer of the Year, 2005. Attained Global Certification in Meeting Management (CMM), December 2003.
Favourite reading: Online news updates from The Washington Post, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and SciDevNet. Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization by Jeff Rubin, Getting Green Done by Auden Schendler, Natural Capitalism by Amory and Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken, The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon, Climate Wars by Gwynne Dyer, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, The Antibiotic Paradox by Stuart B. Levy, MD.
Passions: Sustainable energy technologies; a strong, vibrant, and green meetings industry; a properly funded public education system; smart research solutions that enable organizations and communities to do well by doing good.
Proud moment: Building a model wind turbine out of wooden stir sticks with my daughter when she was 11 years old.
Favourite quote: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
Email: mitchell<@>theconferencepublishers.com