Technology is a facilitator. Identifying and leveraging new technologies is no longer an option in today's business economy. ME!'s IT team educates clients on technology support solutions and facilitates cost and time efficient meetings.

Technology can help contribute to the "wow" factor and create a memorable experience for attendees. In addition, utilizing technology as a portion of continuous improvement strategies can help achieve higher operational efficiency, reduce cycle times and improve processes.

Meeting Expectations can provide technology solutions in any number of areas, including:

• Continuing education management to provide attendees with a mechanism with which to qualify for and track their CPE credits.
• Custom application development to facilitate your conference processes.
• CD-ROM proceedings, including intuitive tables of contents and appropriate whitepapers and/or presentations to extend the lifecycle of your conferences.
• Client Extranets to serve as a repository for conference documents and other artifacts.
• Conference infrastructure planning and management to maximize ROI on conference IT spending.
• Database development to organize and track the extensive data requirements for your conference.
• Discussion forums for the promotion of networking before and during the conference.
• Electronic ballot processing for resolutions, elections, referenda and other official tallying.
• Full eCommerce capabilities to facilitate online credit card processing – from the establishment of Internet merchant accounts to integrating with Web forms.
• HTML room signage application to better handle last-minute session and speaker changes to help attendees plan their conference attendance.
• Interactive conference agenda for handheld computers/PDAs to provide easy access to conference, content and exhibit hall information.
• Intra-conference e-mail systems to promote attendee networking and provide easy access to those with similar interests.
• Lead retrieval solutions to maximize the return on exhibitors' investments.
• Online conference registration to simplify the attendee registration and revenue collection process.
• Online exhibit booth selection to present exhibitors with real-time views of floor plans and available spaces.
• Online exhibit manuals to assist exhibitors in the procurement of onsite services.
• Online job boards to provide career networking opportunities to attendees.
• Online presenter management to make it easy for speakers to participate.
• Online survey development for attendees, exhibitors and other target audiences to provide feedback.
• Onsite speaker management networks to push last-minute session changes to speaking rooms.
• Session room scanning so you can identify exactly who attended which sessions.
• RFID badging to promote networking, track session room attendance and detect patterns in attendee traffic.
• Video e-mail campaigns to provide multi-media marketing opportunities.
• Virtual & Satellite Meetings to enhance any face to face conference. Connect with your audience year round through these online meetings.
• Web casting to extend the conference footprint and broadcast live sessions to those not in attendance, or provide archived, on-demand versions to extend the lifecycle of the conference.
• Web site management, design, development and maintenance to convey important and up-to-the-minute information through the conference microsite.
• Wireless Cyber Café to allow attendees to stay connected with their offices or simply take a break.