Why C-Level Executives Should Attend ECEF

Increase Your Organization’s Income
You surround yourself with competent people. But no one in your organization has the same passion you do for improving the long-term financial health of the enterprise. Exhibitions and conventions represent an immense income stream. Nurturing and accelerating that stream should be among the very top of your priorities. 

ECEF is the only, by invitation, forum in Washington DC where CEOs focus exclusively on exhibition and convention success strategies. ECEF will provide you proven ideas to increase the income from your events.

Protect Your Most Visible Asset
Setting aside their capacity for income-generation, your exhibitions and conventions are your organization’s most visible activities - they are your brand. Today, formidable outside forces threaten that brand. It’s up to you to learn ways to guard against your brand’s erosion.

ECEF is the only one day forum in Washington DC where you’ll acquire an understanding of current and future threats to exhibitions and conventions—and proven strategies for protecting your most visible asset.

Clarify Your Vision
As the leader of your organization, it’s your job to offer your board and staff a well-refined vision of the future.  And, that vision should drive your events, and be as complete and well informed as possible.

ECEF is the only executive level forum where you’ll gain clarity of vision for the future of your events.  It provides the information and insight industry-leading executives require.

Why ECEF?
ECEF is the choice of senior executives who are honestly grappling to enhance the value of their exhibitions and conventions. 

• ECEF attracts the Who’s Who of top association and business media executives from around the world.  100% recommend ECEF to a peer.  For quality, participants rate ECEF 4.7 of 5.
• ECEF enforces strict credentialing. Attendance is by invitation only and all participants must be qualified before registering.  Sponsors are kept to a minimum (not to exceed 20 percent of participants).
• ECEF provides only vetted content.  All speakers are solicited and guided by ECEF’s producer, Sam Lippman.  They represent unbiased experts in their fields and their presentations are custom-tailored for senior executives.
• ECEF is a one-day conference. While top executives starve for new information, they also starve for time.  By delivering today’s need-to-know data in a single day, ECEF satisfies the hunger for both.

Conclusion
Your exhibitions and conventions represent extraordinary assets. But without senior-level attention, they can easily decline in value. YOU are the individual who is accountable for improving and protecting the value of those assets in this turbulent period.  The time to invest in your events is now.

Click here to join 170 of your peers at ECEF, June 19 in Washington DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

ECEF QUALIFICATIONS

There are strict eligibility requirements to attend ECEF.  They are:

1. Attendees must be employed by an organization (association or independent) whose main business is to own and produce one or more exhibitions/conventions.
2. Attendees must be at a strategic, decision-making (principal or VP) level in an organization that owns and produces events.
3. There is a limit of three attendees per event producing organization.

Any event producing executive interested in attending ECEF 2008 should click here for the Application. If you have any questions, please contact Sam Lippman (see below).