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Welcome to the Meeting Professionals International Tampa Bay Area Chapter 

Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the world’s largest association for the $122.3 billion meetings and events industry, is committed to positioning meetings and events as a key strategic component of an organization's success. The over 380-member Tampa Bay Area Chapter of MPI, established in 1984, empowers its members to increase their strategic value with education, professional development and business growth opportunities.

Are you a meeting & event professional in the Greater Tampa Bay Area looking for higher quality education, enhanced networking opportunites and tools to assist you in becoming a more valuable component of your organizations success?  The Tampa Bay Area Chapter offers its members each of these things and much, much more.  With monthly educational meetings, special events and networking opportunities; MPITBA brings meeting professionals together to elevate not only their careers, but the entire meetings & events industry.

News News from MPI Headquarters Thursday, September 9, 2010 The mpiweb.org online community for members is activating a messaging feature very similar to LinkedIn today.  That feature will enable you to send messages about content or activities and message groups all within the site, but the messages will arrive in user email inboxes.  Like other social networking sites, you can modify your preferences for email within your member profile.  It's up to you what you'd like to receive. Please encourage your membership to update their profile and modify their notification settings in your next regularly scheduled communication and meetings. More>>   MPITBA Community Outreach - Florida Blood Services Friday, August 27, 2010 To continue with the success of last year's Community Outreach we are pleased to kick-off this year by helping out the Florida Blood Services Foundation.  More>>   Another example of your ROI with an MPI membership Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Hotels book more meeting, convention groups this year By Roger Yu, USA TODAY More>>   MPI Tampa Bay OUTREACH event: 4/24/10 Habitat for Humanity Build Tuesday, May 4, 2010 The day dawned bright with a slight chill as we gathered early in Tarpon Springs to help build a house for the needy with Habitat for Humanity.   As we arrived, our house supervisor John, very patiently explained the process to us.  Can you imagine explaining the construction industry process to a bunch of office meeting professionals?  But that he did and 3 of us climbed up on the roof and laid and hammered shingle, some worked on soffit and the remainder totally primed and painted that 1500 sq foot home alongside the owner. More>>   More News>>   MiMegasite: Today's Most Viewed Articles No links at the moment, please try again later. Full Article Powered by:admin eSolutions