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Filming at a conference

February 7, 2023How do you price a hybrid meeting?It’s one of the thorniest questions facing conference planners in 2023. James Lancaster goes in search of answers…Read More

ICCA to phase out head office positions as it seeks efficiences

August 4, 2020ICCA to phase out head office positions as it seeks efficiencesThe International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) will begin 'phasing out' a number of positions at its head office in Amsterdam.

Cancellations put 55 per cent of associations into ‘financial hardship’

July 3, 2020Cancellations put 55 per cent of associations into ‘financial hardship’More than 80 per cent of associations have been forced to cancel one of their flagship meetings due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey by Association Meetings International.

How going virtual can multiply sponsorship opportunities

June 23, 2020How going virtual can multiply sponsorship opportunitiesby Gaia Santoro, Head of the Sponsorship Unit, AIM Group International

Virtual reality: how to give sponsors what they want

May 28, 2020Virtual reality: how to give sponsors what they wantAngela Guillemet, executive director of INCON, the international network of congress organisers and association management companies, asks how to make online events work for sponsors…

Association Insight: why optics society is focusing on print

April 14, 2020Association Insight: why optics society is focusing on printHeard the one about the death of print? SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is having none of it. In fact, it’s increasing the frequency of its members’ magazine. Gwen Weerts, managing editor of Photonics Focus, explains why...

Northern Territory doubles subvention fund for meetings

February 25, 2020Northern Territory doubles subvention fund for meetingsAssociations pondering a trip Down Under might be tempted by a new financial incentive.

Conference business boosts a universitys income by £2m

January 13, 2020Conference business boosts a universitys income by £2mUniversities that host conferences can expect to boost their annual sales by around £2m, according to a recent survey of its members by CUBO – a UK-based association of university business officers.

INFOGRAPHIC: what’s a medical congress actually worth

November 22, 2018INFOGRAPHIC: what’s a medical congress actually worthHow much work goes into producing a scientific programme for a medical congress and what do participants really get out of it? That was the subject of a groundbreaking survey of delegates and speakers at this year’s European Congress of Radiology, by Dr Martina Stoff-Hochreiner, commissioned by the...

How to make friends with influencers

July 18, 2018How to make friends with influencersCorbin Ball explains how planners can use social media ‘influencers’ to create a buzz around their meetings….

Disrupted - how associations innovate

July 18, 2018Disrupted - how associations innovateIn the first of a two-part feature, association strategist Genevieve Leclerc explores how the traditionally risk-averse association sector is reinventing itself…Show More