How it works
"Excellent use of new technology which is easy to use
and which facilitates relevant discussions with one's peers."
Niall Campbell, Chief Executive, British Footwear Association
The Trade Association Exchange enables you to design your own unique learning experience tailored around your own needs, interests and challenges.
This powerful networking process emphasises active discussion - giving you plenty of 'air time' to ask your questions and talk about the things that matter to you. Instead of relying on chance encounters, you can arrange meetings in advance on the topics of your choice and with the people you want to meet.
Using the online networking service, each participant creates their own Personal Agenda, which integrates pre-arranged meetings and discussion groups with main Challenge Sessions.
The Agenda Planner is located within a password protected section of the TA Exchange web site, which you will be able to access with a user name and password that will be emailed to you following registration.
Upon registering, you will be invited to submit a brief personal profile, with details of your own interest areas and indicating any particular experience of association management that you might be willing to share with others. All profiles will be posted onto the secure web site, but without contact details being displayed.
Then in October, all registered participants will be invited to use the search facilities within the Agenda Planner to identify others with matching interests, submit their meeting requests and register for the discussion groups that they wish to attend.
Where two parties agree to meet, a brief twenty-minute appointment will be scheduled to take place at a mutually convenient time during one of the networking periods. Meetings are scheduled to take place in an informal networking lounge.
You can also use the Agenda Planner to: review newly registered participants; check the status of your meeting requests; respond to any requests to meet with you; and a week prior to the event, to view your own Personal Agenda online.
"The innovative structure of the event provided an opportunity
for delegates to their contribute ideas and experiences and therefore to
learn from each other."
Pam Hyde, Export Services Manager, Construction Equipment Association