Nasi mówcy
Nasi Mówcy podczas MPI/IMEX Future Leaders Forum 2009:
Tom Hulton
Tom Hulton joined the international advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather in 1970 following a short career in the British army. With O&M, he was based in London and Singapore directing a number of hotel and tourism accounts.
He joined Trusthouse Forte Hotels for a period of 8 years as Director of Sales for the Asia Pacific and Middle East. During this time, he was also Director of Sales and Marketing at Grosvenor House Hotel in London. In 1985, Tom Hulton joined Supranational Hotels in London as Managing Director and over a period of seven years, developed this reservation and marketing hotel consortia into the third largest in the world.
Following three years as Secretary General of the International Hotel Association based in Paris, he joined the International Congress and Convention Association as Chief Executive Officer based in Amsterdam. In July 2002 and after nearly eight years with ICCA, Tom Hulton decided to return to the UK and set up his own consultancy. He remains a member of the ICCA Board of Directors.
He currently works with IMEX as Director of International Relations, with special responsibilities, for helping to raise the political profile of business tourism within Government circles in Europe. He has also developed the IMEX Future Leaders Forum and the Professional Development Pavilion.
His other clients are based in Croatia, Ireland, Turkey, Malaysia, Spain, Australia, Mexico, South Africa.
Rob Davidson
Rob Davidson is a Senior Lecturer in Business Travel and Tourism at the University of Westminster in London. He joined the University in 1998, after spending nine years in France teaching at two universities (Lyon and Montpellier) and at the ESSEC-Cornell Institute of Management in Paris. Prior to that, he spent five years as Education and Training Manager with VisitBritain in London. His main areas of expertise are conference and business travel, and over the last ten years he has written widely on these themes. His latest book was published in 2006: Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events, co-written with Tony Rogers of the British Association of Conference Destinations. In addition, he regularly writes articles for the professional business tourism press, including Conference News. Rob also runs his own consultancy business, and has carried out research for a number of conference organizations in the UK and overseas.
He is regularly invited to speak at international conferences on the theme of trends in business tourism. Since 2002, Rob has been employed as business tourism Industry Analyst by Reed Travel Exhibitions, for whom he carries out ongoing research. At EIBTM in Barcelona each year, he launches his annual report on current and future developments in the conference and incentive industry worldwide In February 2005, he was nominated Meetings and Incentive Personality of the Year 2005, at the Meetings & Incentive Travel Awards ceremony in London, in the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Anne. In 2006, he was nominated as one of Conference & Incentive Travel magazine's "Power 50"- the 50 most influential people in the UK conference industry.
Paul Cunningham
A member of MPI (UK Chapter) since 2006, I am current President of the MPI EMEA Advisory Council (Europe, Middle East, Africa) 2008 - 2009. Previously I served on the MPI Global Strategy Committee and the MPI European Council.
IIMC International Information Management Corporation is an Irish headquartered technology and strategic consulting company, working with government & commercial clients internationally. IIMC provides
Modular, Web-based Conference Management and Event Management Solutions for Professional Conference organisers (PCO) and Associations
Strategic consulting and research services, specialising in applied Information Communication Technologies (ICT), and Organises Ministerial-level Technology Research Conferences in Europe and Africa that bring together senior representatives of leading government, industry and research organisations to share knowledge and experience.
eChallenges (http://www.echallenges.org/), ICT-MobileSummit (http://www.ict-mobilesummit.eu/) and IST-Africa (http://www.ist-africa.org/) are Supported by the European Commission, Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE and Hosted by National Governments.
In 2003 I founded IST-Africa, a Multi-Stakeholder Initiative focused on Training to Reduce the Digital Divide Skills Transfer to Support Research Capacity Building & Awareness,
Community Building to Support EU-African Research Cooperation.
With government partners in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, and research funding secured from the European Commission under FP6 and FP7, IST-Africa currently supports EU-African Research Collaboration with 20 Countries in Southern Africa and East Africa. Each year, the IST-Africa Conference Series is Hosted by a different National Government (IST-Africa 2006 - South Africa, IST-Africa 2007 - Mozambique, IST-Africa 2008 - Namibia), bringing together senior representatives from government, research and industry from Europe and Africa. IST-Africa 2009 (06 - 08 May) will be Hosted by the Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of ICT.
I work as a technology and business expert for European and nationally funded ICT research programmes: European Commission (DG Information Society & Media and DG Research); European Science Foundation; SEE-ERA.NET Balkan Programme; Research Council of Norway; and Vinnova (Swedish Innovation Agency). I have recently been invited to contribute to the work of the S&T Sub-Committee of CODIST (Committee on Development Information, Science and Technology), UN Economic Commission for Africa.
IIMC's ConferenceManager Platform is a Modular and Customisable, Web-based Solution (including Conference Website & Registration, Communications, Event Management, Conference Management, Reporting, Production of Invoices and Badges) designed for Professional Conference Organisers (PCO), Associations and Committees of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) conferences.
A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Smurfit Graduate School of Business, UCD, I have studied at postgraduate level in Hungary and USA. A member of IEEE, I have co-edited 6 books for applied ICT researchers & practitioners
Joyce Dogniez
Joyce has a bachelor degree in Translator - Interpreter which she obtained in Brussels. She started working at Lease Plan Belgium in the key account department after which she joined Toyota Motor Europe, where she was organising the Fleet launches of new cars as well as monitoring and developing the Fleet Sales in Europe.
After three and a half years with Toyota Motor Europe, Joyce joined the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) as a Conference Planner.
She then briefly worked for AGS as an association planner and Liberty Incentives and Congresses, as Sales and Marketing Director.
It is during her work at EVCA that she got involved with MPI.
She was nominated Planner of the Year by the Belgian Chapter in 2005 and became the President-Elect of the Chapter.
She started with MPI European office on the 1st of August 2005 as Manager of Chapter Relations and Development and in July 2006 she took over the position of Director of Operations EMEA Region.
She passed her CMM in December 2003. Joyce speaks Dutch, French, English, Spanish and German and knows basic Italian.
Katarzyna Sobierajska
Katarzyna Sobierajska graduated from the Main School of Commerce in Warsaw and complited postgraduated course in European Union Laws organized by Warsaw University and University in Maastricht.
Since 1994 she started work in tourism when was employed in State Sports and Tourism Administration. After two years became a deputy director deal with marketing. She was involved in organizing : national stands on international tourist fair, seminars, cultural and tourist presentations, market research, cooperation with international organizations and all activities in charge of Polish accession to the European Union.
In 1998 the administration appointed her to be director of Promotion Department. When Polish Tourist Organisation was established in the beginning of 2000, Katarzyna Sobierajska was moved there on the directory position.
Since June 2006 she was director of Convention Bureau of Poland. Since February 2008 she is Undersecretary of State in Ministry of Sport and Tourism
Married, two daughters.
Wojciech Liszka
Wojciech started to work in the industry 5 years ago as a trainee in the Radisson SAS Hotel in Szczecin (north-western Poland).
Since that time I've gone through a couple of levels: Sales Executive, Sales Manager, ADOS&M, ADOS/MICE in Radisson SAS hotels in Szczecin and Warsaw working with different segments & feeder markets.
From Sep 08 I'm acting as a Director of Sales in our Krakow's property and this is my third Radisson hotel in Poland.
I think there are not many sales people in hotel industry who challenged on 3 different markets within Poland and what I'm trying to achieve is to be the specialist in our region.
I'm also very proud to be v-ce President Education in the "MPI Poland Club". We're now trying to become a chapter so please- wish us luck!
Besides my profession, my passion is basketball. I'm a basketball referee for 13 years now and spend most of my weekends officiating top competitions in Poland.
Krzysztof Celuch
Krzysztof joined the meetings industry as a tour leader for a number of DMC's in 2000 following a short career as an event coordinator in the SPA centre.
In 2004, he joined MICE Poland magazine as a journalist and over a period of three years, published more that 50 articles about the meetings industry. Following five years as a student he joined Meeting Professionals International In February 2006, he got a scholarship from the Women's Leadership Initiative and decided to start his PhD studies in Warsaw University.
Krzysztof has spoken at numerous events including seminar in EIBTM Barcelona and Future Leaders Forum in Frankfurt, Pattaya and Warsaw. He is a chairman of MPI POLAND CLUB Steering Committee.
He has just decided to change his job. After three years spent in Warsaw Convention Bureau as a Senior Project Manager beginning from January 1st he started working for Convention Bureau of Poland.
He is also a lecturer in business tourism in the University of Economics and Computer Science based in Warsaw. He is also the organizer of the Student Scientific Conference IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum Warsaw.
Each year he launches annual Warsaw Meetings Industry Report on current and future developments in the conference meetings industry in Warsaw.
In 2007 he was nominated as one of The Meeting Professional Magazine's "30 people under 30 age currently making an impact on the global meetings community".
