At The Javit's Center New York, NY

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The BizBash show is designed for event professionals by event professionals to share the latest trends in decor, design, catering, strategy, and much more. Attendees will differentiate between fads and trends and get cutting-edge ideas to stay on the right track for planning stylish and effective events.

On Wednesday, October 29, 2008, the expo will feature more than 300 of the area’s best exhibitors offering the latest and greatest products and services for event planners. The Javits Center will transform into a meeting place for thousands of special event and meeting planners to be stimulated, to be challenged, and to be inspired.

The educational conference program is your opportunity to hear from industry leaders on what's hot in event and meeting planning. Twelve sessions on key topics were offered.

BizBash, the number-one event resource, has produced a blockbuster, "must attend" trade show in New York for the past six years, drawing more than 3,000 event planners and 300 exhibitors annually. This is your opportunity to dream big, reinvent your events and gain inspiration!

Founded in 2000, BizBash is the leading trade media for the event industry. BizBash publishes magazines and e-newsletters, hosts Web sites, and produces trade shows and award shows for corporate event and meeting professionals, event marketers, and sales, PR, fundraising, and human resource executives. We are committed to assisting our readers and show attendees uncover ideas, gather resources, find inspiration, enhance their careers, and, most importantly—create effective meetings, events, promotions, and other face-to-face opportunities.

The following conferences took place: Back to Basics: Fundamentals of Event Planning, by Tracy Kwiker, President, Pivotal Events, Trend-Spotting With the Biz Bash Editors, Moderator: Chad Kaydo, Editor in Chief, BizBash Panelists: Mark Mavrigian, Style Editor, BizBash; Lisa Cericola, Associate Style Editor, BizBash, Power Entertaining with Food & Wine, Eddie Osterland, Professional Speaker on Power Entertaining,and many more.

The BizBash Hall of Fame was created to recognize some of the key players making major contributions to the event industry. Each year, event industry leaders and visionaries are honored for their hard work and dedication. For 2008, we are honoring these three distinguished sets of partners from leading companies who have combined talent and vision to shape our industry. The Following were honored: Lara Shriftman & Elizabeth Harrison, Harrison & Shriftman, Jaclyn Bernstein & Robert Hulsmeyer
Empire Force Events, and John Schwartz & Mark Veeder of EventQuest.

It was a great event we like to thank David Adler .Founder of Bizbash for his kind invite,feel free to view there website at www.bizbash.com

 Heather McClellan was born in Baker, Oregon and raised in McAllen, Texas. she lived in Houston for a year and attended the University of Texas at Austin (liberal arts, undeclared) for two years before transferring to Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, where her major is Fashion Merchandising Management. She plans to have an editorial career in fashion journalism here in New York. If it weren't for fashion journalism, she would pursue a career in her other passion: genetics technology. Heather's column will feature articles written about famous celebrities, community heads, sports figures, politicians, film festivals, cultural festivals and much more. If you are interested in havng Liberty News Online Magazine come to cover one of your events, feel free to email us one week in advance at lnevents@lnom.org, or feel free to telephone us at (718) 507-7616 Monday through Saturday from 8:00am to 8:00pm, and ask to speak to Steve so that we can add you to our master events calendar for coverage of your event. If you would like to email Heather McClellan with your opinion, please feel free to email her at Heather@lnom.org