As meeting professionals and visionaries, our founders have created a place where you can connect with the industry’s best and work smarter.

Meeting Collaborative connects people and information to help ensure meeting professionals everywhere can make informed decisions for the best possible outcomes. Its developers bring decades of experience in the meetings industry and community development to this revolutionary new resource.

Our founder, Chris White, has been described as a travel industry visionary. In addition to Meetings Collaborative, Chris leads Krisam Group, the leading national sales organization for hotels, and its sister company, Global Events Partners (GEP), as Chairman and CEO. GEP has grown quickly to become the “gold standard” for destination management, providing a single standard of excellence for meeting planners worldwide.

Chris co-founded the Meetings Collaborative with technology expert, John Iwaniec. Using the most cutting-edge social networking technology, they have set out to create a global hub for the over 400,000 meetings professionals worldwide. With the support of content contributions by industry leader, Joan Eisenstodt, this online collaboration provides an unrivaled resource for solving problems, saving money and making the best decisions.

As budgets shrink and more planners are being called upon to provide a return on their event investment, the most savvy, bottom-line-minded industry professionals are turning to the Meeting Collaborative to report on reliable service providers, discuss pressing issues and share best practices. By helping each other do our jobs well, we’re moving the entire industry forward