Successful Meetings and Conferences 2. A Center Designed for Executive Education 4. Convenience, Comfort, Elegance 6. Sparkling Social Events 9

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3 Successful Meetigs ad Cofereces 2 A Ceter Desiged for Executive Educatio 4 Coveiece, Comfort, Elegace 6 Sparklig Social Evets 9 Washigto Uiversity i St. Louis 10 Executive Educatio Programs 11 St. Louis All Withi Reach 12

4 Successful Meetigs ad Cofereces Makig your meetig or coferece a success is a goal the Charles F. Kight Executive Educatio & Coferece Ceter shares with you. Located o the beautiful, vibrat campus of Washigto Uiversity i St. Louis, the Kight Ceter reflects the uiversity s belief i the power of ideas. You ad your attedees will be eergized by a eviromet that stimulates ad facilitates strategic thikig; braistormig ad creativity; iteractivity ad teamwork; ad, ultimately, results. We start with a five-story, 135,000-square-foot learig facility desiged specifically to facilitate world-class executive educatio ad the most demadig off-site busiess meetigs. This umatched settig fuses impressive, itegrative spaces ad sophisticated meetig techology with a friedly, supportive staff of meetig professioals dedicated to makig your job easier ad esurig that every aspect of your meetig or evet is productive. COMMITMENT AND RECOGNITION To cotiue to offer impeccable service, the Kight Ceter is active i key professioal associatios: Iteratioal Associatio of Coferece Ceters Meetig Professioals Iteratioal Iteratioal Special Evets Society The Kight Ceter s commitmet to hospitality excellece has bee recogized through hoors ad awards: Recipiet of the Piacle Award preseted aually by Successful Meetigs Desigatio as the Best Place to Hold a Meetig by the St. Louis Small Busiess Mothly Recipiet of the Clayto Chamber of Commerce s Corerstoe Award Recipiet of the Plaers Choice Award preseted aually by MeetigNews for commitmet to hospitality excellece 2

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6 A Ceter Desiged for Executive Educatio The most effective executive educatio is achieved i a facilitatig eviromet, ad the Kight Ceter is amog the world s best i providig just that. Every aspect of the Ceter was desiged ad built exclusively with the eeds of busiess ad busiess executives i mid. Groups ca choose from several meetig space optios to best fit their objectives. State-of-the-art techology is itegrated seamlessly throughout our spaces. You will always fid kowledgeable o-site staff capable of supportig advaced computer, audiovisual ad presetatio techology. ACADEMIC GATHERINGS As part of a vibrat college campus, the Kight Ceter is a ideal ad coveiet settig for academic gatherigs: Semiars Symposia Cofereces Small ad large group workshops Pael discussios 4

7 3 tiered classrooms, each seatig betwee ideal for large ad formal presetatios. Each classroom is equipped with: Ergoomic podium with 2 computers ad touch pads to cotrol computer commads, soud, videotapig, video playback, 3 overhead screes ad lightig Power ad high-speed Iteret access at virtually every seat A state-of-the-art audiovisual commad ceter operated by full-time experts 3 flat classrooms, each seatig betwee 10 60, with furiture that ca be recofigured with ease for your evet ideal for collaborative plaig or other workig sessios. Each classroom is equipped with: Ergoomic podium with a computer ad touch pad to cotrol computer commads, soud, videotapig, video playback, overhead screes ad lightig Power ad high-speed Iteret access A state-of-the-art audiovisual commad ceter operated by full-time experts 1 formal corporate boardroom with seatig for 26 aroud a elegat table of graite ad mahogay A beautiful 225-seat formal diig room Private diig rooms seatig for more itimate fuctios 16 breakout/coferece rooms clustered for easy access, each fully equipped with comfortable, ergoomically desiged task chairs; computer; priter; phoe; ad table wired for laptop data ad power 9 breakout/coferece rooms cove ietly located o hotel floors for overight guests 5

8 Coveiece, Comfort, Elegace Outside your meetig, participats ca work or uwid i comfort. We provide a wide rage of services ad ameities: The Pub Louge, which is available for private fuctios A gracious 225-seat formal diig room ad private diig rooms for more itimate fuctios Fie cuisie featurig a variety of flavorful ad healthy dishes A outdoor courtyard for diig or relaxig A spacious lobby ad several private ooks for readig ad coversatio A 24-hour busiess ceter with a copier, computer ad fax machie Professioal staff to assist your guests 6

9 LUXURY HOTEL Your overight participats ca ejoy the Kight Ceter s deluxe accommodatios: 66 beautifully appoited guest rooms with quee-size beds Patries stocked with complimetary sacks ad beverages o each guest room floor A o-site fitess ceter with elliptical machies, treadmills, stairclimbers, statioary bikes, a four-statio uiversal gym, ceiligmouted televisios, showers ad lockers Complimetary self-service laudry areas o each guest room floor Complimetary morig ewspapers 7

10 ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP The Kight Ceter s daily operatios reflect our commitmet to evirometal sustaiability. We cotiually adjust our operatios to maximize eergy efficiecy, waste reductio ad use of local suppliers. Washigto Uiversity is a smoke-free campus. 8

11 Sparklig Social Evets To make your special social evet memorable ad rewardig for you ad your guests, the Kight Ceter will help with all the details from décor to seatig to caterig. Our elegat, spacious facility adapts for evets ragig from itimate gatherigs to black-tie galas, icludig: Receptios Private parties Baquets Reuios Graduatio ceremoies 9

12 Washigto Uiversity i St.Louis As a Kight Ceter guest, you ca ejoy our uique locatio o the campus of Washigto Uiversity i St. Louis. This idepedet, medium-sized uiversity is couted amog the world s leaders i teachig ad research. Washigto Uiversity challeges its faculty ad studets alike draw from all 50 states ad more tha 110 atios to seek ew kowledge ad greater uderstadig through our world-class schools i arts & scieces, busiess, desig & visual arts, egieerig, law, medicie ad social work. A wealth of campus resources await you outside the Kight Ceter: The Ediso Theatre showcases atioal, iteratioal ad studet artists performig music, dace ad theater. The Mildred Lae Kemper Art Museum has oe of the fiest uiversity collectios i the atio with strog holdigs of 19th-, 20th- ad 21stcetury Europea ad America art. The Campus Bookstore offers geeral iterest books ad magazies, course books, office ad art supplies, Washigto Uiversity apparel ad gift items, ad computers. Washigto Uiversity Libraries, ope to the public, costitute the regio s most comprehesive research ad teachig library system. May uiversity evets icludig lectures by some of the most importat voices i cotemporary society, cocerts ad recitals, ad varsity sports are ope to the public. 10

13 Executive Educatio Programs Buildig upo Washigto Uiversity s atioal reputatio, Oli Busiess School delivers focused ad results-drive executive educatio ad developmet opportuities to members of the busiess commuity i the Uited States ad abroad. Cited by BusiessWeek as a leader i creatig iovative ad specialized executive educatio, Oli s programs rage from the Executive MBA degree to topic-focused semiars ad platforms to customized corporate learig experieces that help orgaizatios cultivate highpotetial employees ad maage cultural chage. Programs residig at Washigto Uiversity s Daforth Campus i the Charles F. Kight Executive Educatio & Coferece Ceter iclude: Executive MBA Executives ca pursue world-class graduate studies without iterruptig their career through the flexible weeked or mothly format of our Executive MBA Program. For iformatio, cotact program staff at EMBA or emba@wustl.edu. Executive Educatio Semiars Through Oli s oe- ad two-day ope-erollmet semiars, mid- ad seior-level executives gai kowledge ad skills o a variety of leadig-edge busiess topics that they ca apply immediately to their firms. Cotact the Oli Parters Program staff at or ExecProg@oli.wustl.edu. Custom Executive ad Cosultig Programs Oli develops customized educatio ad cosultig programs for orgaizatios to hoe their executives busiess ad leadership skills. Oli professors iteratioally reowed researchers, maagers ad cosultats are a ivaluable resource for Oli Custom Executive Programs, as well as for meetigs or cofereces as istructors, pael members or guest speakers. For iformatio, call

14 St.Louis All Withi Reach The Kight Ceter, with its cetral locatio, ca be your gateway to St. Louis, a thrivig metropolis with its moder appeal ad rich history. You ad your guests ca experiece our hometow s great restaurats, sportig evets, museums, parks, historic sites, shoppig ad active ightlife. Amog our earest attractios: Forest Park, oe of the atio s largest urba parks, featurig a outstadig public golf course, a premier teis stadium, world-class zoo, history ad art museums, sciece ceter, ad bike retals, as well as 7.5 miles of bikig, bladig ad ruig trails, ad a abudace of pavilios ad other special gatherig places for uique ad beautiful outdoor experieces A vibrat six-block etertaimet ad shoppig district kow as The Loop o Uiversity City s Delmar Boulevard, which the America Plaig Associatio amed oe of the 10 best streets i America Sait Louis Galleria, offerig premier shoppig, a movie theater ad diig CENTRALLY LOCATED Seve miles from Lambert-St. Louis Iteratioal Airport Less tha oe mile from two MetroLik statios where you ca board a light-rail trai to reach may St. Louis attractios, icludig the airport ad dowtow attractios Five miles from dowtow St. Louis, home to the St. Louis Cardials baseball; St. Louis Rams football; St. Louis Blues hockey; America s Ceter Co ve tio Complex; Gateway Arch; City Garde; City Museum; casios; Aheuser-Busch Brewery tours; Washigto Aveue restaurats, clubs ad ightlife; ad much more 12

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