Meetings Professional Members

Membership Categories

Financial Services and Insurance (F&I) Companies

FICP membership is available to individual meetings professionals who are employed by an F&I firm as described below.

Financial Services Company: An organization or subsidiary primarily engaged in, or facilitating, financial transactions or money management and encompasses raising funds by taking deposits, issuing securities or incurring liabilities. These companies may include:

  • Accounting firms
  • Banks, including national and state commercial and investment banks, savings banks and credit unions
  • Brokerage firms
  • Credit card issuers
  • Financial advisor firms
  • Investment advisors
  • Loan and mortgage brokerages
  • Mutual fund firms
  • Portfolio management
  • Sales financing
  • Wealth and asset management firms
Insurance companies can be defined as those that provide products such as medical insurance, life insurance, property and casualty insurance, and other indemnity products designed to provide some type of financial relief to the policyholder - or designated beneficiaries - should a covered event occur.
 

Insurance Company: An organization that manufactures, distributes or manages insurance or other indemnity products that include:

  • Insurance brokerages
  • Property and casualty insurance 
  • Health and medical insurance 
  • Life and accident insurance 
  • Reinsurance [and administration]
  • Annuity 
  • Independent marketing organizations
  • Risk management consulting
  • Underwriting variable, deferred or fixed rate deferred annuities
  • Underwriting individual whole life, group life, term or universal life policies

Association Meetings Professional 

Professionals employed in a meeting, conference and/or event planning capacity for related associations are eligible for FICP membership.

The association must be a bona fide 501(c)(6) tax-exempt organization that represents or services the F&I industry per the eligibility criteria above.

Independent Meetings Professional

Self-employed, independent meetings professionals who are under annual or continuous contract to perform meeting planning functions with at least one eligible F&I company, or related association, may join FICP.

Additional Independent Meetings Professional Requirements>

A meetings professional operating as an independent contractor must show proof of the independent contractor relationship by submitting a letter (on company letterhead) or email (from a company domain), signed by or from an authorized F&I company representative, that validates the individual is under annual or continuous contract in a meeting, conference and/or event planning capacity for that company. Such correspondence will be maintained in said person’s membership record.

An independent contractor serving more than one financial and/or insurance company must identify with one of the companies and submit said letter or email from that company, which will be retained within the membership record.

It is the responsibility of the independent contractor to inform FICP of any changes to their membership status, especially if their relationship with the company on record changes. FICP reserves the right to request a demonstration of membership eligibility at any time.

Any outsourced agent or subcontractor of an independent meetings professional must meet the same membership eligibility criteria as the independent contractor.

Independent contractors are prohibited from soliciting business from FICP meetings professional members.

Meetings professionals who work for third-party planning companies are not eligible to be FICP members.

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Individual Requirements

Individuals who meet the company requirements outlined above must be employed in a meeting, conference, event planning and/or marketing role, defined as either:

  • Core – primarily involved in the coordination, planning or oversight of meetings, conferences or events; or
  • Non-Core – directly supervises or provides support to individuals whose core function is coordination, planning or oversight of meetings, conferences or events

Corporate Incentive Program

FICP offers a flat-rate membership option for companies with larger meeting planning teams. Known as the Corporate Incentive Program, companies pay $2,875 USD yearly to enroll their team of up to 25* individuals, offering flexibility with your roster, simple invoicing, and an investment in your team’s professional development.

Interested? This option offers a cost-effective solution for organizations with eight or more individuals interested in joining FICP. Contact info@ficpnet.com to enroll your team.

*For teams with more than 25 members, the rate will increase incrementally per person.

Honorary Membership

Any individual who has been an FICP meetings professional member for 15 consecutive years and is permanently retired. To be considered for honorary membership, submit this application to membership@ficpnet.com. The request will be reviewed by FICP; applicants will be notified within 10 business days.

Honorary members do not pay membership dues, do not have voting rights, and must pay the member rate for any association service or to attend an FICP event. The FICP Board of Directors may develop additional criteria and shall have discretion to remove an Honorary Member at any time.