Event Industry News

AUGUST 4, 2022

A key part of the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) since January 2009, Dawn Lauder has been head of international conferences at the venue for nearly six years.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Latest strategic expansion will increase its portfolio in NYC to 30 meeting and event spaces. etc.venues is to open a third meetings and events venue in New York City at 810 Seventh Avenue , extending its portfolio in the city up to 30 meeting and event spaces and 100,000 square feet. billion by 2030.”. million sq.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to guide industry. Freeman and Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow are among the global organisations already using the Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to steer their sustainability journey. Net Zero Carbon Events launched in 2021 prior to unveiling its Pledge at COP26 in Glasgow.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Business Design Centre (BDC) has released the company’s roadmap to Net-Zero, explaining how it intends to achieve this ambitious target by 2030 – 20 years ahead of the internationally recognised target of 2050 for businesses. The BDC has made a 66.7%

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Wyboston Lakes Resort has signed the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge, joining more than 600 leading conference and events industry organisations worldwide since its launch at Cop26 in signing it or expressing their support for the campaign. link] www.netzerocarbonevents.org

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Philadelphia-based university hopes to graduate flexible professionals prepared to manage both in-person and virtual events. With all the Covid-related layoffs and corporate downsizing, it might not look like the best time to get into the meetings and events industry. Temple will begin the new program in fall 2021.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Freeman and Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow are among the global organisations already using the Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to steer their sustainability journey. As a producer of events, continuing our work against Action Area 2 will be our focus — to redesign events to be sustainable and waste free.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

Some 30 miles away, meeting professionals at the ubiquitous customer relationship software company Salesforce have taken a net-zero pledge and are brainstorming ways to keep business moving forward while prioritizing sustainability as a core value in everything from partnerships to customer data tracking and at its annual Dreamforce citywide event.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

three-storey extension to the historic recording and rehearsal venue in Manchester, won three gongs from RIBA (the Royal Institute of British Architects) in its 2021 awards: a RIBA National Award 2021, RIBA North West Award 2021, and RIBA North West Sustainability Award 2021. The Oglesby Centre, a £4.3M

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: RFPs Made Easy: Virtual Event RFP: What To Include (With Free Template!). 2020 Tech: Looking Back At 2020 In Events. ?? New virtual event tool alert! Check out our brand spanking new Virtual Event Request for Proposal Matrix! ??. Much to Discuss. Oh my goodness, dear reader!

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Editor’s note: We are dedicating the November-December edition of Convene fully — our first single-topic issue — to the climate crisis, and what the business events industry is doing to address this global challenge. The event also comes with a “built-in dilemma,” Lopez said — the toll the event itself takes on the environment.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After Huber shared a sobering presentation on global warming scenarios that also included research specific to how events contribute to climate change, events industry panelists discussed sustainability initiatives underway and explored what else needs to be done. This is an incredibly complex area when you start to dig into it.”

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Event Industry News

JUNE 23, 2022

The UK’s largest sustainability ecosystem and green investment event, Reset Connect London , has pledged to go net-zero by 2030 and signed up to the Net Zero Carbon Events [NZCE] pledge. We have been very careful to ensure low or no carbon decision making in all areas of the event’s organisation.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

Some 30 miles away, meeting professionals at the ubiquitous customer relationship software company Salesforce have taken a net-zero pledge and are brainstorming ways to keep business moving forward while prioritizing sustainability as a core value in everything from partnerships to customer data tracking and at its annual Dreamforce citywide event.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 20, 2023

With the in-person event business back to full strength, it’s more important than ever for host organizations to rethink how they conduct gatherings in order to minimize their carbon footprint. Lyft says it’s committed to 100-percent electric vehicles on its platform by the end of 2030. Every effort counts. Register here.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus (SEC) has announced the appointment of Jennifer Roddie as Senior Sales Manager and Lead Bid Strategist, and Louise Watson as Association Sales Manager, as the business continues to invest in its talent.

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Event Industry News

MAY 28, 2021

On 25 th January, EY announced its ambition to be carbon negative in 2021, setting targets to significantly reduce its absolute emissions, and removing and offsetting more carbon than it emits. (1). The past 14 months of pandemic-enforced lockdowns have caused particular turmoil and uncertainty in the events and hospitality sectors.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 12, 2022

In this newly created role, Helen will focus on RX’s commitment to the UFI Net Carbon Zero Event pledge. RX is a founding partner of the pledge, signed in November 2021, and commits the event industry to achieve net zero by 2050, at the latest, and halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 26, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus will plant a tree for every person who meets with its delegation at IMEX Frankfurt. The Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow has pledged to plant a tree for every person its team meets with during IMEX Frankfurt. A volunteer plants Scots pine seedlings.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 8, 2021

Actavo Events is a global events company specialising in the supply of Event Infrastructure including staging, grandstand seating, fencing, crowd control, drape and bespoke scaffolding structures, in addition to offering Project Management expertise for special projects. SPONSORED CONTENT.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BH Live, the registered charity, which operates leisure and event venues across Dorset, Hampshire and London, has appointed Paul Collins as its Chair. Cultural events and entertainment make a vital contribution to the local economy too. We are committed to being net zero carbon by 2030 and carbon neutral by 2035.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2019

In the UAE, Dubai is continuing to benefit from its long-established brand in the business events world and now is home to over 96,000 bedrooms across 501 hotels, as well as over 7million sq ft of convention space. The Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi has announced its goal to attract three million business visitors by 2021.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2024

Before retiring from independent auditing company BPA, he managed its iCompli Sustainability and Event Audit services, so his new company — a sustainability assurance practice focused on standards writing and carbon footprint calculating, certifying companies and events to industry and international standards — was a natural next step.

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The MICE

MARCH 1, 2022

The international community of bedload specialists met in Interlaken in late 2021 to address current and future issues regarding the implementation of restoration measures in Switzerland. I interviewed the event organiser, Dr. Carlos R. Wyss, Project Manager at Wasser-Agenda 21, who gave insights into the event design process.

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Management Events

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Machines have an unlimited repository of knowledge, and this will be clear by 2030. However, keep in mind that it’s not real-time as ChatGPT’s database stops in 2021. Think of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the same is true for jobs. The lowest level is data, information, and simple binary law knowledge. There are plenty of jobs there.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Net Zero Carbon Events will be launching its Roadmap for the events industry at COP27 at Sharm El- Sheikh in Egypt on 11 November – Decarbonisation Day. The number of supporting organisations has risen from 21 in September 2021 to 409 in September this year. That’s why the Net Zero Carbon Events initiative was set up. “It

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It will be the first in the history of the Games to include breakdancing (or “breaking”) as a competitive event, and the first to achieve gender parity (see “Level Playing Field” on p. Pictured is a rendering of
a temporary arena setup for equestrian events on the palace’s Etoile Royale esplanade. (©Paris million tons of CO2.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

Yuri van Geest gave an insightful presentation and then Catherine welcomed experts for a roundtable discussion to delve further into the topic of gamification in an attempt to answer the question, ‘What will your event of the future look like using gamification.’. Why use gamification? The first speaker, Farshida Zafar, L.L.M.,

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Last Minute Registration Shuffle Lancey Cowen A recent Maritz study showed that 45% of attendees from 30 trade shows register within four weeks of the event date. Cowan canceled her May 2020 event, allowing researchers to upload their abstract presentations to a library. I’m working on sourcing 2030, 2034 and 2035 right now,” she said.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? So I’ll be following AI this year, and how, as we become more familiar with its abilities and shortcomings, that will in turn shape how we choose to use it in the business events industry. Why I Have My Eye on AI.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? So I’ll be following AI this year, and how, as we become more familiar with its abilities and shortcomings, that will in turn shape how we choose to use it in the business events industry. Why I Have My Eye on AI.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Designed, refined and built in 30-days amid a chaos of instruction from Westminster, organisers worked with sponsors and suppliers to deliver a virtual Event Tech Live (vETL) in November. Collingwood Advisory founder Piers Bearne chairing reps from IMEX Exhibitions, the Eventful Group and the Emerging Payments Association.

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