Hunter Clemens, CAE, CMP is a strategic association executive and the Director of Meetings for the American Physical Society where he directs a staff of seventeen meeting professionals to produce scientific meetings and oversees a $9.1 million meetings budget. As a Senior Consultant at Bloch and Reed Association Advisors, he managed projects to include serving as the Interim Executive Director of an Allied ASAE Association. He is the former Vice President of Meetings Management Group, a division of Association Management Group, with oversight of over 100 meetings annually. As a key member of Association Management Group’s executive leadership team, he consulted with clients on strategic initiatives. Prior to AMG, he served as Associate Vice President of Convention Development at NYC & Company, the convention and visitors bureau for New York City.
He offers more than 30 years of accomplishment-laden experience in the association community and the hospitality and meetings industry and is a member of ASAE, PCMA, MPI, and AMPs. He is the current Chairman for the Association of Meeting Professionals, and a Past-Chair of the American Society of Association Executive’s Meetings and Exposition Professionals Advisory Council. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Professional Convention Management Association and is a Past President of the Capital Chapter of PCMA. He also served on the Customer Advisory Board for several cities and is a past member of the Hyatt AMC Advisory Board. He periodically teaches courses on meetings and event management for ASAE as well as the CMP Study Course.
Hunter holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Georgia, is married to Therese Oetgen Clemens, has three children and two grandchildren.
Talk Title: The March Meeting of Progress: APS’s Experiment with new Hybrid Formats
Abstract: As the American Physical Society finishes up its largest ever March Meeting, complete with distinct virtual and in-person components, this presentation will give first reactions on how the experiment went, as well as how the last few years have transformed how APS thinks about meeting strategy.