“Sharing experiences and meeting new people is incredibly valuable and it’s a great way to learn. I hope to implement much of what I’ve discovered at Association Day into my own organisation.” Vadim Garbarchuk, The Business Travel Association of Ukraine explains why Association Day at IMEX in Frankfurt remains a must-do, for association event professionals.
On 27 November 2013, Dubai, the city that over the last 40 years or so has probably best incarnated the progressive spirit of Expos, overtook Yekaterinburg (Russia), İzmir (Turkey) and São Paulo (Brazil) to win the right to host the 2020 World Expo – the first-ever to be organized and staged in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENA & SA) region.
One of today’s myths that is shared by many policymakers across the globe is that Expo’s are a waste of public money. Their mission was to educate citizens to new discoveries when Internet was not invented so they have become obsolete. There is nothing falser that this, as was proven by last World Expo in Milan in 2015.
Aleš Šinkovec, Practice Director, Energy and Environment, LOGOS Public Affairs, discusses how Expo-2017 Astana is an opportunity for the European Union and its Member States.
In this second article of our World Expo series, Matteo Pederzoli puts Astana on the map and wonders how associations, like the ones you, our dear readers, represent, are planning to get involved in the 2017 Expo. There seems to be a lot of ways to do so.
To celebrate the launch of the brand new Headquarters, we have tried to give you, our readers, some food for thought. Designed as a series of articles, it will focus, this year, on World Expos. As you will read, the connections between associations and Expos are numerous and varied. But what’s in it exactly for associations?
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