In April 2018, three Meeting Professionals International (MPI) chapters partnered together to offer their members something bigger and better. Bringing together three unique meeting communities gave the EVENT participants the chance to expand their networks while strengthening existing ones. Simply put, our goal is to do things differently. We want to challenge the "typical" conference format. We are not oblivious to the fact that there are many education and networking choices for event professionals to invest their resources. EMBRACE | ENGAGE | THRIVE will guide us to our goal to make the EVENT stand apart from the others again in 2022.