Welcome to the 20th Annual Benefits Management Forum & Expo (BMF&E) event speaker center - your resource for all speaker related details including: deadlines, hotel and travel accommodations, and key contacts.

As a speaker you are automatically registered for the event.

Speaker Requirements

Audiovisual Requirements

Presentation Submissions

Hotel/Travel

Speaker Release

Event Contact

Speaker Requirements

Please provide us with a 75-100-word professional biography. You can cut and paste your information in the box below.

Audiovisual Requirements

All meeting rooms will be equipped with the following audiovisual equipment:

• An LCD projector
• A Laptop
• A podium microphone
• Table microphones

Please advise if you will require any of the following for your presentation:
DVD player
VHS player
Internet Connection (only dial-up, not DSL)
Other: (please list specific equipment)

Presentation/Handout Materials

The most common complaint we receive from attendees is that speakers don't include handouts for their presentations in the conference workbook. Therefore we require that ALL speakers submit, at a minimum, an outline of their presentation. If multimedia presentations are used, we request an electronic version of the presentation so that we can load it in advance on our conference computer and produce hard copies for our documentation book.

NOTE: If you're unable to provide your presentation or outline by the deadline, it is your responsibility to reproduce and provide copies, and it is also at your expense.

Presentations should be emailed to Jessica Lawton. If your presentation file is too large to send via email, you can overnight a CD-ROM or memory stick to the attention of Jessica Lawton at One State Street Plaza, 27th fl., New York, NY 10004

Speaker Release Form

As part of the conference educational materials and as a service to participants, electronic recordings of all presentations and the materials that I delivered to this conference may be made available to conference participants and as post conference materials made available for sale to the general public. Electronic Recordings means a recording of the presentation via video, audio, digital, or any other form or method of copying, recording, or transmission, now known or hereafter devised including, without limitation, copying or recording by phonographic, photographic, magnetic, laser, electronic, or any other means and whether on phonographic records, film, microfilm, microfiche, slides, filmstrips, transparencies, online, Internet, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, cassettes, videodisks, floppy disks, or any other human or machine readable medium, and broadcast or transmission thereof. The price charged for an electronic recording is designed to cover the costs of supplies, marketing, equipment, labor, distribution and other costs related to the electronic recording.

As a conference speaker, I hereby consent to the recording, duplicating and distribution of my presentation(s) and the material(s) that I delivered to this conference via an Electronic Recording and release, discharge and acquit SourceMedia Conferences from any and all claims, demands or causes of action that I may hereafter have against SourceMedia Conferences whether for libel or violation of privacy or anything else by reason of recording, duplicating and distribution of my presentation(s) or the material(s) that I delivered to this conference via Electronic Recordings. This release form in no way inhibits me from using my own materials in any manner I so desire.

This release will ensure to the benefit of SourceMedia Conferences as well as its parent company, affiliates, successors and assigns.

* Please select one:
I agree to the above terms of this release agreement
I DO NOT agree with the above terms of this agreement

Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of the SourceMedia to insure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its individually sponsored or jointly sponsored educational programs. All faculty participating in any SourceMedia programs are expected to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of the continuing education program. This pertains to relationships with any corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic. The intent of this policy is not to prevent a speaker with a potential conflict of interest from making a presentation. It is merely intended that any potential conflict should be identified openly so that the listeners may form their own judgments about the presentation with the full disclosure of the facts. It remains for the audience to determine whether the speaker's outside interests may reflect a possible bias in either the exposition or the conclusions presented.

* Please select one:
I currently have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
I have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with one or more organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.

Event Contact

Any questions relating to the conference, please contact:

For any program related questions, please contact Jill Elswick, Program Manager – (540) 808-2135 or jill@modernmediapartners.com.

For sales related issues (sponsorships, advertising, etc.), please contact Chris Frey, Sales Manager - (212) 803-6568 or chris.frey@sourcemedia.com.

For logistics or booth set-up related questions, please contact Jessica Lawton, Meeting Manager - (212) 803-6068 or jessica.lawton@sourcemedia.com.

For billing issues, please contact our customer service department at 1-800-803-3424 or email suri.zielinski@sourcemedia.com.