MeetingMatrix International and Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland have developed a 15-week Meeting and Event Technology curriculum. The curriculum is a comprehensive approach to teaching the Information and Communication Technologies involved in successful event planning and execution.

The complete program consists of the curriculum, MeetingMatrix software, and technical support. It is offered free of charge to qualified instructors by MeetingMatrix International.

A message from Jmichaele Keller, CEO of MeetingMatrix International

Dear Instructor,
MeetingMatrix International, Inc., in partnership with Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland has designed a new, comprehensive curriculum guide for your students benefit. This curriculum guide and the accompanying software and technical support are designed to benefit the following stakeholders.

• Instructors, curriculum designers, department chairs and others responsible for approving and implementing curriculum within higher education.
• Students enrolled in undergraduate, post graduate and continuing professional development coursers in meetings, events, entertainment, exhibitions, hospitality, culinary, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, and other related fields of studies.

The curriculum is designed in a modular format and allows instructors and their students to select from a portfolio of individual instructional units to provide training, practice and assessment in meeting and event venue research and design. These units may be delivered individually or linked together to provide further mastery resulting in award of a Certificate of Completion from MeetingMatrix International and Queen Margaret University. The units range in length from four hours to thirty hours.

This program is valued at $50,000‐$150,000 per year per institution, however, it is offered at no charge by MeetingMatrix International as part of our continuing commitment to providing the best tools and resources for the next generation of professionals in the global meetings and events industry.
We look forward to working with you and your students in the future to provide this valuable product and service.

Kind regards,

Jmîchaeĺe Keller
President and CEO
MeetingMatrix International, Inc.

A message from Joe Goldblatt, executive director of the International Centre for the Study of Planned Events and a professor at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Scotland in the Tourism, Hospitality and Events Group.

Dear Instructor,

A curriculum represents a way of thinking about the future of human kind. It implies that professionals and scholars believe there is the possibility of a better future for them and others. This future is attainable through study and learning.

The MeetingMatrix International meeting and event technology curriculum is a sterling example of this kind of belief in the future. Thanks to the leadership of Jmîchaeĺe Keller and his dedicated team, the MeetingMatrix International Meeting and Event Technology Laboratory at Queen Margaret University has developed the world's first comprehensive curriculum for meeting and event technology.

As a result of this pioneering development, soon, thousands of students and hundreds of faculty members will have access to a new way of thinking about the future of meetings and events through technology.

I am very pleased to have played a small role in this development. However, the greater role will now be played by you, the faculty member who will transfer these ideas and skills to the next generation of meeting and event professionals. Thank you for thinking about the future with us and good luck with leading the next generation along the information super highway that has been expertly designed by Queen Margaret University PhD student Kuan-wen Lin (林冠文) and the brilliant team at MeetingMatrix International.

Sincerely,

Professor Joe Goldblatt, FRSA
Executive Director of the International Centre for the Study of Planned Events
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh