AIME 2020 pre-empted the pandemic. AIME 2025 pre-empted the unfolding of a global trade and intellectual engagement crisis. As a case study in fortunate timing, the Asia-Pacific’s annual meetings and business events trade show illustrated the harmony of globalisation when in full flow. It’s hard to imagine how the AUS$400m of trade reported from this…
True to form, the BestCities Global Alliance continued to use its annual Forum to pursue association impact by gathering members of its association community for shared learning. The methodology for developing greater impact strategies came in the form of the 2nd edition of the ICCA Association Impact Masterclass following its inauguration by Founding Funders and…
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From Association Meetings International: Yuliia Katynska, deputy director of the Lviv Convention Bureau, explains how Lviv’s business events community has transformed challenges into solutions as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to wreak havoc…
From Skift Meetings: Meetings industry associations stand at the precipice of what many perceive as long overdue change. Some remain on shaky financial footing as they try to recover from the Covid pandemic. Others have fallen short in at least one of the key areas most important to a thriving association — innovation, advocacy, and…
A European medical association has found that its pre-pandemic siteselection strategy, which prioritized a legacy engagement project, has not proven to be viable in the current environment. By Michelle Russell: The pandemic has upended destinations’ view of business events as some kind of “subsidiary of tourism,” UK-based global urbanist Greg Clark, who spoke at the…
Matty Rubenstein has been advising senior association executives for 15 years Over the last 15 years I’ve had the most fantastic opportunity to work with senior executives across almost every division of IEEE, the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, in New Jersey. It’s one of the biggest associations in the US, generating revenue of almost $½…
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