March 2012

Welcome to our first edition of GainingEdge Insights. As our valued colleague, we would like to keep you informed about the developments and news from our company.

GainingEdge in South America

We now have Graziela Padoin on our team as Business Development Consultant, Latin America. Graziela is based in Porto Alegre, and has 12 years experience in the meetings industry. She will look after the interests of Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau and simpleview in the Latin America market. If you are looking at the BRIC countries as your market source, talk to us.

MYCEB to host IAPCO seminar in Kuala Lumpur

Our client Malaysia Convention & Exhibition Bureau will be hosting an IAPCO Regional Seminar on Professional Conference Management in Kuala Lumpur from 14-16 March 2012. All industry professionals are invited to participate in this seminar which provides up to 10 hours of continuing education that can be applied towards the CMP (Certified Meeting Professional) application. IAPCO members pay USD150, non members pay USD120.00 registration fee. More details from Hani Ramdas.

EdgyThinking: Welcome The Dragon

Gary Grimmer pens this thoughts about the Asian Dragon in the year of the Water Dragon. Read this, and our other EdgyThoughts on our website. You are welcomed to share these articles with your friends and colleagues by just clicking on the PDF tool bar and share. We are happy to share our concepts and ideas as well, and request that you only need to credit GainingEdge in your presentations if you use these.

Our CSR

One of our company's CSR programmes, GainingWheels, was launched on 7 Jan 2012 as GainingEdge celebrates its 8th anniversary as a global business events consultancy. The programme provides wheelchairs to people who need them, but can't afford them. Our goal is to provide wheelchairs every year in every place where we work. The fund will provide wheelchairs to recipients that are nominated by our clients. Since its launch, we have provided a wheelchair to a stroke victim in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), and in the process of providing one to a young adult inflicted with cerebral palsy in Belgrade (Serbia) and a paralysed patient from Hangzhou (China).

Our other company CSR programme is GainingSupport. This programme provides capacity building assistance in developing economies. We provide both pro bono and reduced fees work on a means tested basis. We also provide reduced rate specialist consulting support for NGO/AID projects. On GainingSupport programme will be in conjunction with IMEX's Wild Card winners in 2012 where we will provide pro bono consultancy to the successful applicants.