London-based event marketing specialistevvnt has announced a partnership with BusyConfto utilize evvnt API to automate the event submission process. BusyConf is a complete conference-planning platform that delivers the tools organizers need to collect comprehensive speaker proposals, add and effectively manage unlimited event collaborators, streamline the event ticket registration and sponsor payment process, create a mobile-ready schedule, and attract attendees […]

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AMERICAS – Toronto’s Exhibition Place has strengthened its team with the appointment of Francesca Colussi to the position of director of security and parking.

  Sheffield Business School has teamed up with Events Industry News to explore the nuances of leadership in the events sector and in the final part of his series of three blogs, we speak to Simon Graveling, who produces some of the biggest events in the world, including a number of both Winter and Summer […]

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AMERICAS – Boston and Cambridge are reporting another year of continued strength, as the number one United States destination in the ICCA 2013 Top 20 Rankings for countries and cities.

Global Experience Specialists (GES) is launching a new education and professional development facility for its entire UK staff. GES Academy is a training and education initiative, offering a varied and modular curriculum of skills, knowledge and creative training, all accessible through the company’s intranet service, workshops and one-to-one training. The GES Academy was created to […]

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Live event production company Liquid Media have been awarded the ISO20121 Sustainability in Events management system. Doug Jones, founder and owner of the company has been extremely happy with the achievement, and supportive of the work from the time it was a British Standard. “We live in a global community and it is vital that […]

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Internet World, the founding event of the first London Technology Week, has today announced that it has been successfully certified against ISO 20121, the International Standard for Sustainable Event Management. As one of the first global event organisers to be certified by an independent third party to this International Standard, UBM Live has now gained […]

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DoubleDutch, a developer of mobile event technology, today announced a partnership with Eventbrite, the global self-service ticketing and event discovery platform, to integrate the company’s online ticketing technology within its comprehensive event management system. The integration allows event organisers to sync attendee lists from their Eventbrite to their DoubleDutch accounts for an easy onboarding experience. “Developing […]

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