Professional Convention Management Association

Programs: Learn. Engage. Act. Participate. Leap, is our largest educational conference each year, hosted in may, with on average 100 members to attend a full day of education for 8 continuing education units as well as networking key note events.

bay area meetings industry excellence awards gala - our largest evening event of the year for 275 meeting planners and hotel suppliers to come together for an evening of networking, education on changes in the industry, information on new hotels, and most importantly to award 5 meeting planners and hotel suppliers for different awards for their continued efforts in the meetings industry. We also partner with a non-profit to help raise money for their cause, in 2016 we partnered with project homeless connect sf.

town hall meeting in december, this is our second largest gathering for about 125 members. This annual gathering is the culmination of the years event to provide status updates from san francisco travel about the state of the meetings industry as well as followed by a key note breakfast. 2016 the topic was very timely with how to create and execute a safety plan for your conferences. We brought in the head of security from sf giants as well as dreamforce on how to create an emergency plan for all possible threats and how to engage stakeholders. The topic changes every year to remain relevant for the members and based on current events.

bi-monthly cocktail mixers for members to network with one another, and provide monthly updates from our board of directors on what our next educational program will be. Bi monthly educational programming for 1 hour of ceu's every other month.