Olivia Powell
HUB SEOUL ready for interactivity at ICCA Congress 2020
Seoul Convention Bureau is organising an interactive hub, HUB SEOUL, as part of its participation in the 59th ICCA Congress 2020. The congress will be in hybrid format for the first time in the industry association’s history. ICCA will take on a hub-and-spoke system and Seoul will be one of six hubs, along with Cape Town, Kuching, Luxembourg, Malaga, and Riyadh. There will also be two virtua...
Te Pae Christchurch showcases inaugural menu
Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre has unveiled its inaugural menus, produced by its culinary team in collaboration with local suppliers. Executive chef Desmond Davies has spent months working with local suppliers to design a menu that he describes as “a true taste of New Zealand”, from kawakawa-rubbed Te Mana lamb rump from New Zealand’s high country, to oven-roasted Akaroa king sa...
Adelaide hosts largest business event since pre-Covid
Adelaide recently hosted Connect South Australia, the State’s largest business event since pre-Covid. With South Australia (SA) described as “one of the most Covid-Safe destinations in the world”, business events are again operating in Adelaide. With an advance Covid-Safe sign off from Health SA, the Adelaide Convention Bureau (ACB) organised and delivered Connect SA. The conference wa...
RAI Amsterdam adds to Supervisory Board
RAI Amsterdam has announced that CEO of VIA Outlets, Otto Ambagtsheer (pictured), and finance director for Uber, Michiel Boere, have joined its supervisory board. Ambagtsheer joined VIA Outlets in 2018, and previously worked as regional managing director Benelux at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. Boere has held various positions at Uber since 2016, where he is finance director for Uber Eats. Previously...
MCEC announces partnership with Guides Dogs Victoria
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) has entered into a partnership with Guide Dogs Victoria (GDV) to “ensure Victorians with low vision or blindness can continue to receive essential services during coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdowns.” The venue will be used as a space, free of charge, for the training of Guide Dogs Victoria clients and guide dogs-in-training. With Melbour...
AV24/7 launches Connected Event Group
Australia-based events industry staging and AV specialist, AV 24/7, has announced the formation of a new group of companies which, it says, aims to “service the changing needs of the events industry”. Co-owner and general manager, Libbie Ray said: “As soon as the events industry was shut down in March, we challenged ourselves to think differently about what our clients needed most and...
AIME partners with Delegate Connect to power online platform for show
The organisers of Melbourne-based MICE industry tradeshow, Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Event (AIME) have announced a new partnership with Delegate Connect, which will see Delegate Connect powering the hybrid event’s 2021 online platform, AIME Online. The new partnership will enable AIME to launch a meetings algorithm to match connections between buyers and exhibitors. Meetings will match ...
HSMAI Europe Curate puts issues of discrimination and diversity centre stage at online conference
Hospitality, events and travel professionals across the UK and Europe have been invited to take part in two research projects ahead of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International’s HSMAI Europe Curate online conference, which will be taking place 3-4 November this year. The research focuses on both discrimination and diversity in the industry as well as the future of events...
Glasgow partners with EarthCheck to benchmark city’s environmental and social performance
Glasgow has announced that it has partnered with EarthCheck, a business advisory group specialising in sustainability and destination management, to assist the city to “benchmark its environmental and social performance and to deliver higher standards of health and hygiene in a Covid-19 recovery environment”. The EarthCheck Sustainable Destinations programme helps communities to measur...
Melbourne’s scientific sector to put two new, big conferences under the microscope
Victoria’s scientific community will take centre stage at two international business events, following Melbourne’s selection as host city for the International Mass Spectrometry Conference 2024 and International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions 2023. The host city expects the two events to deliver a collective economic contribution to the state of AU$13.2m (US$9.3m), 6,650 room ni...
Zoom to launch ticketed events platform OnZoom across US
US-based video communications company Zoom has announced that it will be launching OnZoom, an events platform and marketplace able to hold ticketed online experiences. The new platform is launching in beta with live events for fitness, music and more. Events can host up to 1,000 attendees, and the number of attendees allowed at each event is dependent on the host’s Zoom subscription level. While t...
Scale up, not back: rethinking event technology in the Covid age
Eric Holmen, chief revenue officer at Splash, on how event technology can enhance online events. In a year when everything about how we connect with people has changed, conference organisers and marketers are being forced to rethink their approach to events. No, this isn’t one of those ‘events are dead’ or ‘Covid killed the conference’ articles. Events are too central...