Interior Design Hospitality Giants Conference

October 21-23 | Peninsula Hotel, Chicago

Interior Design Staff -- Interior Design, 9/26/2012 6:09:40 PM

The inaugural Hospitality Giants Conference celebrates Interior Design's Top 75 Hospitality Giants, and puts them together with influential purchasers, owners, operators, brand executives, and vendors. Interactive sessions and stimulating content coupled with myriad networking opportunities offer attendees the chance to make new contacts, learn new ideas and inspire new ways of doing business. It's a chance to dig deep into the Hospitality market, while having some fun along the way. If you would like more details, contact Rachel Long.




THE AGENDA
 
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21

3-5 PM Grand Ballroom Foyer, Peninsual Chicago
>Conference Registration

5-6 PM Grand Ballroom, Peninsula Chicago
Welcome to Hospitality Giants Conference
>Cindy Allen, editor in chief, Interior Design magazine
>Mark Strauss, president, Interior Design Media

A Sense of Place
>Geoffrey Baer, producer and program host, WTTW, and PBS documentarian

Global Trend Report 
>Michele Caniato, president, Culture & Commerce

6:15-6:35 PM Peninsula Porte Cochere
>Motor coach transport departs Peninsula Chicago

6:30-9:30 PM PUBLIC Chicago
>Hospitality Giants Culinary Experience
 
9:15-9:35 PM PUBLIC Porte Cochere                                                                             
Motor coach transport returns to Peninsula Chicago

                 
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22

8-8:55 AM Avenues at Peninsula
>Breakfast Buffet

9 AM Grand Ballroom at Peninsula
Welcome
>Cindy Allen, editor in chief, Interior Design magazine

Postcard from the Future—"hands on" Innovation and Materials
>Andrew Dent, Ph.D., Vice President, Library & Materials Research, Material ConneXion

Unexpected Conversations—Innovators Talk
>Nick Kokonas, co-founder, The Aviary, Next, Alinea

Are People Listening to You? How to be Brillian on Command?
>Bill Hoogterp, founder, Blue Planet

Unexpected Conversations—Innovators Talk
>Sam Nazarian, chairman, founder, and CEO, SBE

Design Inspiration from Unlikely Sources
>Rich Cahan, author, Edgar Miller: Chicago's Forgotten Renaissance Man

12:30 PM Lunch | Grand Ballroom
Effective Communication—What Clients, Customers, Colleagues are Really Saying
>Mac Fulfer, founder, Amazing Face Reading

2:30 PM-4:30 PM Explorations

Option One
Iconic Architecture:  Tour Chicago's world-class design-Charnley-Persky House and Madlener House. Departs/returns Peninsula porte cochere

Option Two
Hospitality deep-dive:  Tour Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel with Carlson's Tom Trout. Departs/returns Peninsula porte cochere

Option Three
Effective communication, in-depth:  Learn what matters most about public speaking, presentations, and communicating your message-on stage, in meetings, for life. Grant Park Board Room, Peninsula

5:15 PM-7:15 PM
Early Bird Networking—The Avery
Departs/returns Peninsula porte cochere

7 PM-7:30 PM Ballroom Two, Peninsula
Cocktails and Networking

7:30 PM Ballroom Two, Peninsula
Dinner

9:30 PM-11:30 PM
Night Owl Networking—The Aviary
Departs/returns Peninsula porte cochere

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23

8 AM Grand Ballroom, Peninsula
Breakfast Buffer

9 AM Grand Ballroom, Peninsula
Welcome Back
>Cindy Allen, editor in chief, Interior Design
>Mark Strauss, president, Interior Design

What's Next—Ideas, Design and Technology
>Scott Belsky, author, Making Ideas Happen; CEO/founder, Behance, and advisor/investor, Pinterest

10 AM
Bon Voyage!