Performance: National Symphony Orchestra: Handel's iMessiah/i Dec 17 - 20, 2009

Performance: National Symphony Orchestra: Handel's iMessiah/i Dec 17 - 20, 2009

MPI WEC 09: The message from this year’s meetings education congress -

MPI WEC 09: The message from this year’s meetings education congress -

Washington’s top events of 2009

BEST A-LIST EVENT
Cafritz-Jordan Inauguration party at the Fairfax Hotel at Embassy Row

BEST PARTY YOU’VE NEVER HEARD ABOUT
UN Foundation events with Queen Rania, Ted Turner, and Usher

BEST BOOK PARTY
Celebrating Vernon Jordan’s Make it Plain at David and Katherine Bradley’s house

HARDEST INVITE TO COME BY
The Kennedy Center Honors

ULTIMATE POWER DINNER
CharityWorks 100 Point Wine Dinner

BEST GIFT BAGS
French-American Cultural Dinner

MOST EXCLUSIVE UNDER-40 FÊTE
WL’s Young & The Guest List Party

MOST MEDIA POWER
Huffington Post Inauguration Party

MOST DRAMATIC
Wolf Trap’s Ball celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

BEST ENTERTAINMENT
Manifest Hope Inauguration Party featuring Moby, Santogold, and De La Soul

BEST DANCING
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s mambo at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts’ Noche de Gala

SEXIEST CROWD
Corcoran Fall Fête

BEST FASHION EVENT
All Access Fashion at Tysons Galleria

BEST BOYS’ NIGHT OUT
Fight Night

MOST INSPIRATIONAL
Human Rights Campaign Dinner Vital Voices

BEST YOUNG PHILANTHROPIC EVENT
The L’Enfant Society’s Ball on the Mall

BEST DÉCOR
The Meridian Ball

MOST LAVISH SILENT AUCTION
The Lombardi Gala

BEST FOOD AND WINE
Joan Hisaoka “Make a Difference” Gala
March of Dimes Signature Chef ’s Auction

MOST “POLLYWOOD”
Bloomberg/Vanity Fair White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner after-party at the French Embassy Residence

BEST ART EVENT
The Meyerhoff Collection dinner with Jasper Johns, Ellworth Kelly, and Frank Stella

Source: The Washington Life Magazine

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SEEING THE LIGHT: Economist Don Reynolds on a brighter 2010 -

SEEING THE LIGHT: Economist Don Reynolds on a brighter 2010 -

Join hundreds of meeting planners and hospitality professionals for the 26th Annual Meetings Quest Washington D.C. tradeshow. This one-day event is the most efficient way to meet face to face with suppliers that want to assist you in producing successful meetings.

Overview
26th Annual
November 24, 2009
8:30 am - 4:00 pm *
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road NW
Washington , DC 20008
Hotel website


Schedule of Events
Registration
Opens at 8:00 am

Meet-and-Greet Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:30 am

Educational Seminar
9:30 am - 10:45 am

Seminar Break
10:45 am - 11:00 am

Educational Seminar (cont.)
11:00 am - 12:15 am

Networking Luncheon
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Exhibits Open
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

"Connections" Reception
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm