Hi Jeanette I'm hoping you might have time to consider my guest invitation to the 10th Associations World Congress, in Florence. Could you have a review of my email below and the event website, and let me know. With many thanks Damian Damian Hutt Executive Director Association of Association Executives www.associationexecutives.org ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Damian Hutt Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 12:56 Subject: Invitation to Associations World Congress in Florence, Italy To: <druid@druid.dk> Hi Jeanette I'm very pleased to invite you to attend our annual Associations World Congress in the great city of Florence, Italy from 9-11 July. The congress is invitation-only, for association leaders and association events strategists, and there is no delegate fee to attend. We changed the programme style last year and got our highest score feedback in 16 years with excellent testimonials. The programme comprises twelve high-level in-depth half-day sessions, providing solutions to the most difficult challenges faced by associations and societies. Each session is led by a trusted association expert, are interactive with contribution from delegates, case studies, some with exercises, lots of discussion and sharing. The three streams are: Association Strategy, Conference & Events Strategy and Executive Skills, and address these issues: Critical challenges to your association: commercial and competitive threats Establish highly effective well funded sector research with a reputation for excellence Outsourcing and sourcing for greater growth and revenue with agile, flexible partnerships that truly work Improving member engagement and determining what constitutes meaningful engagement in your organisation Content management, multiple formats and revenue models Grow your conferences: servicing a greater proportion of your members and increasing event revenue Side Events & unConferences: critical opportunities and threats Medical Association Meeting: half days of specific issues and challenges Skills of coaching - to lead your team with a different approach that is highly effective for success Skills of public speaking - enhance your speaking skills to increase effectiveness Inform yourself of developments of leading associations, so you are best placed to develop your own successful strategy View the programme here Social events include the Welcome Reception in the garden of the Palazzo degli Affari and the Congress Party in the centre of Florence on second evening. We have a selection of good value hotels from EUR119 per night and provided lots of information on flights into the airports. For more information on the programme etc, please take a look at the website here but drop me an email if you can't find the information you need. If you could take a look over the weekend or early next week and let me know if you are interested, it would help, as we are managing the invitation-only places carefully. All the best, Damian Damian Hutt Executive Director Association of Association Executives www.associationexecutives.org Association of Association Executives www.associationexecutives.org Share, Learn & Grow _________________________________________________________________ The Association of Association Executives is an independent community of over 23,000 association employees and officials from membership organisations worldwide. The AAE organises the Associations Congress series, Association Leaders Symposium series, Association Awards series. It provides resources, best practice, training, information, news, directories and networking to help association executives improve their organisation, events, member value and services.