Meetings & Events Australia’s newly re-named Future Leaders program has received a major boost with national AV company Scene Change re-committing as its National Sponsor.
Given the state of global politics in the past few years, the importance (and consequences) of voting (or not voting) should be clear as water by now. As the date draws closer for the ICCA elections to take place at the General Assembly of ICCA in Dubai (on 11 November 2018), members are encouraged to vote electronically even if they are not gracing the significant event.
The Center for Association Leadership, will host its fourth international conference, the Association Leadership Forum, Asia Pacific, from October 29-31 at the Grand Hyatt Singapore.
PCMA has announced the 20 in their Twenties class of 2019, as the next generation of business events leaders and twenty of the brightest and most talented young professionals.
Multi-award-winning millennial tech entrepreneur Charlotte Pearce has been revealed as the third keynote speaker for IBTM World 2018, which will take place in Barcelona from 27-29 November.
Young meetings industry professionals are invited to apply for the 12th ICCA Forum for Young Professionals, in partnership with ibtm world, a unique chance for free education and guidance from the meetings industry’s most influential trailblazers. Padraic Galligan, Managing Partner at SoolNua, is leading the faculty.
Jeannie Lim Takes Over as Chair to Lead Global Alliance
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Jeannie Lim, Executive Director of Conventions, Meetings and Incentive Travel at the Singapore Exhibition and Convention Bureau™ (SECB), has been elected to the role of board chair for the BestCities Global Alliance.
The countdown to the European Parliament elections in May 2019 is a good time for associations to take stock and audit their advocacy approach before a new wave of MEPs and Commissioners set the policy agenda for 2020 and beyond.
A chat with Michelle Crowley, PCMA’s senior director of global strategy
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Michelle Crowley, senior director of global strategy for Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA), shared her thoughts on the importance of education and words of advice for the youth in the industry during her participation as a panel member in Dubai Association Conference.
ICCA President, Nina Freysen-Pretorius, will be on the panel at 16.40, discussing with other female industry leaders whether women in the meetings industry are “on eye level with men”.
Oxford Economics recently published a report which credits the Meetings Industry in the US for creating 5.9 million jobs and 845 Billion USD in business sales in 2016.
At a ceremony last Friday, The Hague Convention Bureau was given a Silver Award by M&IT in London securing prestigious recognition as an excellent Overseas Convention Bureau.
There are lessons to be learned from one of the world's most influential drag queens, writes Enrique Velazquez, director general at Association for Consumer Credit Information Suppliers (ACCIS).
The strengths of executive leaders are key to associations’ successes, and the weaknesses of leaders, when these are significant, are reasons for failures and sometimes catastrophic ones. The ability of the CEO, and of his/her top managers, to help the Board define the right strategy and to federate the staff on the achievement of the goals and the plans to reach them, is of prime importance to the raison d’être of their organisation.
Associations play such a vital role in virtually every global issue that we need to get beyond the old-time thinking that associations are a separate part of our economies and our societies. In many cases, they are leading those societies and laying the foundations for those economies.
Associations play an essential role in today’s society, as they possess the collective power needed to tackle issues that matter to the communities with which they are involved. Organisations pay much attention to programmes and operations, but the importance of human capital cannot be underestimated. This is particularly true when it comes to leadership.
Ideas create communities, but they don’t necessarily create cohesion or engagement – while ideas are critical to membership organisations, it is conversations that create communities of change. Research at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has found that individuals may be more connected to a cause or an idea than to an organisation and its leader. Yet, it is up to leaders to transform ideas into a conversation, if they want a community of inclusion, solidarity, and engagement.
Medellin, one of Colombia’s liveliest cities, has become one of the fastest-growing destinations on a global scale, going up 146 places since making its first appearance in the ICCA destination ranking reports in 2007.
Since its founding in 1992, Meeting Media Group, publisher of Headquarters Magazine (HQ), has been a trusted guide and voice for associations and the global MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) industry.