June 27, 2016 – Today, C&LC’s Chief Operating Officer, Janeé Pelletier, MBA, CMP, DES, was featured in a standing-room-only panel session during PCMA’s Education Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The session, entitled “Quantifying the Value of your Business Event,” focused on the need to develop complete and compelling RFPs for meeting sourcing in the current sellers’…
Today, the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) Chesapeake Chapter and event organizer, C&LC’s Chief Operating Officer Janeé Pelletier, were honored with a proclamation from Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, recognizing the positive impact of meetings and events on the city’s economy. Mayor Rawlings- Blake has officially designated April 14, 2016 as Baltimore Meetings Industry Day, in…
C&LC’s Chief Operating Officer, Janeé Pelletier, MBA, CMP, DES, addressed a group of Stevenson University students today as part of a panel titled, “Life as an Event Planner.” Designed to expose the students to a variety of hospitality and event management careers, the panel also featured speakers from BmoreEvents, the Ulman Cancer Center for Young Adults,…
Meetings.Net “Face to Face” | October 5, 2015 I went to a fantastic, interactive, and tips-filled session at the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting in Detroit this summer on the topic of planning meetings outside the U.S. The august panel—Cameron Curtis, Courtesy Associates; Michelle Malloy, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Janee Pelletier…
The Meeting Professional | June 2015 Janeé Pelletier, CMP, chief operating officer for Conference Logistics Consultants, a meeting planning and consulting firm specializing in international conference management, understands that personalization is the way to the media’s heart. “We do a lot of work with medical and scientific meetings that are pretty academic and a lot…
The Meeting Professional | August 2014 Reducing F&B costs without lessening the meeting or event experience should begin with asking for a custom menu. This approach leads to a variety of ways in which to minimize spend. “We work with a lot of associations that simply don’t have the budget to order off the set…
PCMA Convene: The Magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association | September 2012 Janeé Pelletier, CMP, vice president of Annapolis, Md.–based Conference & Logistics Consultants, pointed out an additional challenge planners of association events and large conventions may now be experiencing: securing space for their 2014 and 2015 events. Although an organization ideally should book…
The Chatter: PCMA Capital Chapter Newsletter | August 2012 Even if you’re slogging through a 90-hour workweek onsite at a convention, your brain needs some downtime. Gameplay has proven health benefits, whether it’s a physical sport or even a challenging video game. Yes, you read that right: video games can be good for your brain…
US News & World Report | August 2012 New Orleans, which now looks to be in Isaac’s sights, lost convention business after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. But that was mainly a result of all the problems the city was having, rather than fear of another storm, said Paul Henning of Conference & Logistics Consultants…
The Chatter: PCMA Capital Chapter Newsletter | March 2012 We are all expected to do more with less these days, and that means inventive ways to accomplish our continuing education needs. To meet this demand, innovative suppliers have created unique learning opportunities that blend fun and education… Creative, hands-on education is a refreshing change of…