SPINCon 2013

President

Maarten Vanneste started his own company at the age of 18. He successfully grew a one-man video production company into a professional AV company with a team of 12 full-time professionals. In the 90’s he started to focus on meetings and conferences, expanding services specifically for this international market. Based in a small Belgian town Maarten became an international supplier and global player. As a member of MPI he became chapter president, moved into international leadership and attained his CMM.  The Business plan from his CMM project became reality as the Meeting Support Institute (2006), an association for companies with services and products on the content side of meetings. In 2007 Vanneste wrote his first book “Meeting Architecture, a manifesto” (MSI 2008). This became an industry bestseller and lead to a movement and an international not-for-profit ‘Project Meeting Architecture.’ For his work and influence on the meetings industry, Maarten received the IMEX Academy Award in 2005 and the MPI RISE Industry Leadership Award in 2011.

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