How the Bootcamp Works | Event Leaders AI Bootcamp™

This Isn’t a Conference.
It’s a Bootcamp.

No keynotes. No expo hall. Six 45-minute Practitioner Labs™ — peer-led, hands-on, CMP-CE approved. Twelve cities in 2027.

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Next up · Miami Beach · Sunday, January 10, 2027

Headed to Convening Leaders? Join us the Sunday before.

Mini bootcamp · 11:00 AM–4:00 PM · $225 · 70 seats · 3.0 CMP-CE

Who’s in the Room

Working peers, not an audience

Senior planners from corporate, association, healthcare, finance, technology and higher education. Every seat is someone doing the work you do.

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Downloads

⬇ The Bootcamp one-pager (PDF) ⬇ Miami Beach mini bootcamp one-pager (PDF) ⬇ Employer approval letter — full-day (Word) ⬇ Employer approval letter — Miami Beach (Word)

How the Bootcamp Works

One room. One day.
Six labs. One plan.

You work in a pod of 18 and rotate through six 45-minute Practitioner Labs™, each run by a practitioner who does this work — not a vendor with a deck. The day closes with the Implementation Exchange, where you build your 90-Day Implementation Plan.

108seats · six pods of 18

6Practitioner Labs™

45minutes per lab

4.5CMP-CE hours · 3.0 mini

8:00 AM

Arrive, breakfast, find your pod. Bring a laptop and a problem you’re trying to solve.

9:00 AM

Practitioner Labs™ 1–3

11:45 AM

Seated lunch

12:45 PM

Practitioner Labs™ 4–6

3:30 PM

The Implementation Exchange — rounds of eight, your 90-Day Plan. Done by 5:00.

Mini bootcamps (Miami Beach · Las Vegas) Doors 10:30 · opening session 11:00 · four labs · seated lunch · Implementation Exchange · done by 4:00 · 3.0 CMP-CE hours

Practitioner Labs™

Six hands-on, peer-led labs aligned with CMP International Standards. Your own event is the case study.

LAB 1

Venue Sourcing & Contract Analysis

Sourcing • Risk & Contracts

Use AI to accelerate research, comparison, risk identification and contract review while preserving human accountability.

LAB 2

Budgeting, Analytics & ROI

Financial Management • Analytics

Consolidate financial, engagement and performance data into clearer forecasting, reporting and decision support.

LAB 3

Registration & Attendee Experience

Data & CRM • Experience Design

Connect registration, CRM and participation data into a usable attendee-intelligence workflow — then turn those signals into more relevant communications and experiences.

LAB 4

Event Marketing & Promotion

Marketing • Demand Generation

Build a connected content, campaign, lead-nurture and conversion workflow across multiple channels.

LAB 5

Productivity & Workflow Automation

Operations • Automation

Identify repetitive work, redesign the process and connect systems with appropriate controls and escalation paths.

LAB 6

AI With Integrity: A Framework for Event Leaders

Governance • Responsible AI

Put practical guardrails around AI use — accuracy, data privacy, disclosure and human accountability — so teams can adopt it with confidence and trust.

Every lab runs 45 minutes with 15 minutes between. Mini bootcamps (Miami Beach, Las Vegas) run four of the six labs after a 30-minute opening session on AI With Integrity.

What You Leave With

Three things you can use Monday morning

Not notes. Not a slide deck. Working assets you built on your own event, in a form your team can pick up and run with.

Tool-agnostic prompt library

A set of tested prompts from every lab, written to work in whatever AI tool your organization has approved — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.

One or more prompts per lab, filled in with your event’s details during the session
Structured so you can swap in the next event without rewriting
Notes on what to check before you trust the output

Built in labs 1–6

Automation workflows

Repetitive work in your event cycle, mapped step by step with where AI does the lifting and where a human signs off.

A workflow map for at least one process you run today — sourcing, budgeting, registration, marketing or follow-up
Hand-offs, controls and escalation points marked, so it holds up with your team and your legal reviewer
A template to map the next process yourself

Built in the Productivity & Workflow Automation lab

90-Day Implementation Plan

Your plan for the next quarter, built in the Implementation Exchange with your pod and ready to show leadership.

Three to five priorities drawn from the labs, each with an owner and a date
An ROI framing for each one — time saved, cost avoided or revenue protected
The guardrails from AI With Integrity written in, so the plan passes review

Built in the Implementation Exchange

Everything is yours to keep and share with your team.