Why come to IMEX as a corporate event planner?
If you organize meetings and events for your company, IMEX America is where you need to be. We bring together specialist education, key suppliers and event professionals from around the world. And we offer events and education for all levels of corporate event planners—from junior staffers through to senior leaders.

Education and networking exclusively for corporate executives
Choose education to match your level, from all-level Corporate Focus to the high-level Executive Meeting Forum and ELX.
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Executive Meeting Forum: Monday, October 12
If you're responsible for managing internal and external global teams with responsibility for high-level events, and reporting to the executive team, this is the event for you.
Join your peers to explore and challenge industry norms, and current ways of doing business. Led by meetings industry veteran and skilled facilitator, Terri Breining, you'll learn from best-in-class corporate meetings and events practices and innovations.
You'll have the opportunity to put forward your preferred topics for discussion—from procurement through stakeholder and team management to meeting design.
The Executive Meeting Forum is designed for meetings leaders working in global corporations (that do not sell meetings related services) with minimal annual revenues of $100 million. Attendance is by invitation only. For more information email: donna.fung@imexevents.com

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Corporate Focus: Monday, October 12
Education and networking exclusively for corporate planners
Understand the role of events in a multi-pronged business strategy. Learn how to manage stakeholder expectations, budget realities and evolving needs of participants. Come for focused education and follow-on conversations that will help you manage the complexities of your role.
Attendance is by invitation only. For more information email: donna.fung@imexevents.com

Coming to IMEX from a corporate organization?
And need help getting approval?
Join us at IMEX as part of a hosted buyer group to elevate your corporate event planning.
As a hosted buyer, you’ll have access to networking opportunities, educational sessions, and one-on-one meetings with key suppliers.
Worried about compliance? Cover your own travel and hotel expenses while still enjoying all the other benefits of being a hosted buyer.
Check back in 2026 to access the letter and supporting material to show your compliance department.

Hosted buyer program
If you regularly plan or commission international events, apply to join our hosted buyer program. You'll enjoy free and flexible flights, free accommodations and our acclaimed VIP treatment. Uniquely flexible, tailored to each group or individual, defined by mutual commitment and supported by our team of dedicated (and devoted) relationship managers, the IMEX hosted buyer program stands apart. Dare we say it? (Yes, we do.) It's simply the best!

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