September 2007 Volume 3: Issue

In This Issue Mastery Message from VP of Membership New Event Team Created at Culinary Capers 2010 Commerce Centre and VANOC RFEOI Stratigic Partnership Program is Back! Ucoming Events

Welcome to the 2007/2008 Season of ISES Vancouver! From left to right: Jennifer Drew-Miller, Denise Dickson, Dwayne Botchar & Diana Hambrook The Board of Directors of the Vancouver Chapter of the International Special Event Society has been busy all summer organizing the next year of events and educational support for our local membership. Your 2007/2008 Board members are as follows: President - Diana Hambrook President Elect - Dwayne Botchar VP Programs - Dwayne Botchar VP Education - Diana Hambrook VP Communications - Martes Farrugia Secretary - Served by Board members at large Treasurer - Jennifer Drew-Millar VP Membership - Denise Dickson Past President/Student Volunteer Liaison Program - Mike Granek Article Headline Mastery Message from VP Membership ISES Vancouver has a special opportunity for you to Win an $1800 ticket to the Leadership Mastery Course which was recently sent to you (August 23) as a special offer from our President. For members only - if you sign up a new member you will have your name entered into a draw. This is open only to our Vancouver members so your odds of winning a ticket to this exciting two day course in Whistler are high! For additional details please visit: http://www.powerwithin.com/4105/event_calendar.asp Please contact Denise Dickson if you have any questions. If you have signed up a new member please be sure to let her know so that you are entered into the September draw. Good luck! Denise Dickson VP Membership 604-732-5272 Former ISES Board member to head New Culinary Event Planning Team Culinary Capers Catering Event Team: (left to right) Susan Reyada, Mandy Pearce, Sarah MacKenzie, Karyn Rose, Stephanie Devlin Culinary Capers Catering has announced the formation of a new management position dedicated to developing and shaping event and sales initiatives. Sarah MacKenzie has been promoted from Senior Event Planner to lead the event planning team as the new Director of Sales and Events. "This is a wonderful opportunity to be an integral part of the next phase of growth in the successful twenty-one year history of Culinary Capers," said Sarah MacKenzie about her new position. "I'm looking forward to the challenge of leading our professional event team and ensuring our clients will continue to experience outstanding food and service." "Sarah's passion and commitment to excellence and creativity exemplifies the qualities we are looking for in our company's next generation of leaders," said Culinary Capers' President Debra Lykkemark. "We are focused on building and aligning our resources and talent to handle rapid continued growth in catering opportunities for the next three years. Sarah MacKenzie has been an Event Planner with Culinary Capers since 2000. She has served on the Vancouver Board of the International Special Events Society and taught an event planning course at The Art Institute. Article Headline 2010 Commerce Centre and VANOC RFEOI The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games ("VANOC") released a Request for Expressions of Interest ("RFEOI") for the supply and installation of temporary, rental-based event equipment for the 2010 venues. This RFEOI will close October 12, 2007. It can be found by "Browsing Business Opportunities" at www.2010CommerceCentre.gov.bc.ca. Approximately 60 competition and non-competition venues in Whistler and Greater Vancouver will require overlay services. To help companies fully understand the opportunity and to encourage the building of alliances between BC companies, the BC Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Secretariat's 2010 Commerce Centre will be hosting information and networking sessions. VANOC representatives will be present at these sessions to provide an overview of the procurement process. (Please note that they will be unable to provide additional technical information on the required goods, equipment or services at these sessions. Requests for Proposals issued subsequent to the RFEOI process will include additional details or technical information.) Dates for these information sessions have been tentatively set as follows: September 7/07, 10 am - Trailers & Storage Containers AND Tents September 7/07, 2 pm - Fencing AND Toilets September 11/07, 2 pm - Internal Build Out AND Internal Tent Build Out September 12/07, 2 pm - Landscape & Groundwork AND Turf Protection September 13/07, 10 am - Seating/Scaffolding AND Flags September 13/07, 2 pm - Broadcast Lighting & Site Lighting AND Rigging & Truss September 18/07, 2 pm - HVAC September 19/07, 2 pm - Exhibit Equipment All information sessions will be held at 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC. Please indicate your interest in attending as soon as possible by contacting them by phone at 604-660-2020 or by email at workshop2010commercecentre@gov.bc.ca. Seating is limited and pre-booking is mandatory. For more information, please contact 2010 Commerce Centre BC Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Secretariat 1-888-778-2010 E-mail: 2010BusinessNetwork@gov.bc.ca Website: www.2010commercecenter.com Article Headline Stratigic Partnership Program is Back! The Strategic Partner Program was developed six years ago to launch and maintain the ISES Vancouver website. Since then many improvements and updates have been made to www.isesvancouver.com. We have also utilized and upgraded our email announcements and increased the frequency of our e-newsletter releases, both of which complement our website and support ISES Vancouver events and the activities of our members. The money raised in our Strategic Partner Program goes to: Producing e-newsletters which will be linked to our website Maintaining our website with regular updates Maintaining and growing our 3000 plus email lists and email campaigns Producing high level education and networking meetings at a reasonable price ISES Vancouver Strategic Partner Benefits As an ISES Strategic Partner you will receive benefits which will help you market your business to our local, national and international community of over 5000 members worldwide. Only 7 spaces are available. Contact Martes Farrugia at 604 437-9255 for more information! Strategic Parters Article Headline Upcoming Events The final touches on events from mid September to June are being organized now! From experiential marketing seminars, to developing our human resources for 2010 to Dr. Joe Jeff Goldblatt, one of the founders of ISES and prolific event producer and author of many event publications, our 2007/2008 Board is getting ready to deliver another great series of education events and networking socials for you! ISES Vancouver save the date notice with details will be issued shortly!