Don't Forget Your Name Badge! - A Podcast For Event Planners & Meeting Planners

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer. Subscribe to DFYNB! iTunes - http://bit.ly/lanyonpodcast Google Play - http://bit.ly/LanyonPodcastAndroid Email us at podcast@lanyon.com Today, a meetings-focused episode of DFYMB. Today I chat with meetings industry pioneer and 2016 Meetingsnet Change Maker, Kevin Iwamoto. Kevin's career in strategic meetings management spans several decades, including some pretty turbulent times for the meetings and travel industry and the world economy as a whole. We talk about some of these tough times and how they presented opportunities to create lasting change within the industry – the most well-known being the Strategic Meetings Management Program, which Kevin developed in the wake of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s. We also discuss travel itself – both business travel and travel for leisure – the differences between the two and how each has cha