Albertan receives Hall of Fame Award from Meeting & Event Planning Industry
Jean Silzer, Alberta’s first Certified Meeting Planner (CMP), receives Industry Builder Award
Jean Silzer, President of Details Convention &
Event Management Inc. will be inducted into the
Meeting & Incentive Travel Hall of Fame at a
ceremony in Toronto later this year.
Calgary, Alberta – It’s been 22 years since Jean Silzer left her teaching career to create
her own company (Details Convention & Event Management Inc.) and pursue her passion for meeting
and event planning. Now, she is being honoured by her peers and inducted into the Meeting & Incentive
Travel Hall of Fame with an Industry Builder Award. The award recognizes an individual planner or
supplier who has developed best practices, created professional guidelines, and/or who has built a product
or service that has improved the way the industry does business.
“It’s flattering to be recognized by my peers for my contribution to the professionalism and growth of
the event management industry in Canada,” says Jean Silzer, President, Details Convention & Event
Management. “I am especially proud that through our collective efforts, the industry has been able to
move from being thought of as ‘party planners’ to being recognized as strategic planners who are able
to create genuine, bottom-line results for organizations through well orchestrated events and conferences.”
In 1990, Jean Silzer became Alberta’s first Certified Meeting Planner. A strong advocate for professional
designation Silzer has taught courses in event planning at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Throughout
her career, Silzer has been integral in shaping and developing professional industry standards in
Canada and internationally. She has played a pivotal role in the writing and adoption of the Government
of Canada’s Canadian Industry Occupational Standards for Meeting Planners. These standards have
since been adopted globally and turned into a textbook used across North America. In 1999, Silzer
recognized that the industry‘s “educational bible” called Meetings and Conventions: A Planning Guide
needed to be fully revised and updated. She volunteered as Chair and in 2003, a second edition called
MPI’s Planning Guide: A Source for Meetings and Conventions was published.
Silzer whose company works for industry leaders such as Travel Alberta will receive her Hall of Fame
Award and be inducted into the Meeting & Incentive Travel Hall of Fame on August 17 at the Metro
Toronto Convention Centre.
About the Meeting & Incentive Travel Hall of Fame Awards
The M&IT Hall of Fame Awards, started in 2009, honour and recognize the outstanding contributions
of Canadian meeting and incentive travel planners. Candidates are nominated in one of six categories
by their industry peers and vetted through an application process. The categories include: Volunteer
Award; Industry Mentor Award; Industry Builder Award; Industry Innovator Award; Industry Planner
Award; and Industry Rising Star Award. The 2010 awards will be presented August 17 at the
John Bassett Theatre, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. www.meetingscanada.com/HallOfFame
Travel Alberta is a client of Details Convention & Event Management. Details was responsible for managing Travel Alberta's
Grow for Gold 2009 Travel Industry Conference in Banff.
About Details Convention & Event Management Inc.
Calgary-based Details Inc. are experts at organizing and hosting the full spectrum of educational
conferences, seminars, meetings and events for associations, government agencies and corporations
across Canada. The event management company provides bottom line results and expertise in
project management, event design, event marketing/promotion, event scheduling, registration services,
event coordination and event delivery. Clients include Travel Alberta, Association of Fundraising
Professionals, Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials, Bethany Care Society and
Autism Partnership. www.detailsinc.ca
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For more information, interviews and hi-rez photos, please contact:
Neil Bousquet, APR, PR, Details Convention & Event Management (403) 256-8834 prwizard@prwizard.ca
Jean Silzer, President, Details Convention & Event Management (403) 277-7377 jsilzer@detailsinc.ca
Albertan receives Hall of Fame Award from
Meeting & Event Planning Industry
Jean Silzer, Alberta’s first Certified Meeting
Planner (CMP), receives Industry Builder Award
Jean Silzer, President of Details Convention &
Event Management Inc. will be inducted into the
Meeting & Incentive Travel Hall of Fame at a
ceremony in Toronto later this year.
Calgary, Alberta – It’s been 22 years since Jean Silzer left her teaching career to create
her own company (Details Convention & Event Management Inc.) and pursue her passion for meeting
and event planning. Now, she is being honoured by her peers and inducted into the Meeting & Incentive
Travel Hall of Fame with an Industry Builder Award. The award recognizes an individual planner or
supplier who has developed best practices, created professional guidelines, and/or who has built a product
or service that has improved the way the industry does business.
“It’s flattering to be recognized by my peers for my contribution to the professionalism and growth of
the event management industry in Canada,” says Jean Silzer, President, Details Convention & Event
Management. “I am especially proud that through our collective efforts, the industry has been able to
move from being thought of as ‘party planners’ to being recognized as strategic planners who are able
to create genuine, bottom-line results for organizations through well orchestrated events and conferences.”
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