The Conference News Agency Awards (CNAAs) celebrate the UK's most influential and prolific event agencies, recognising excellence over the past 12 months. One of the most highly anticipated events in the conference and meetings industry, over 450 event professionals from around the UK attend the ceremony every year.
CHS Leeds returns for 2025! This one-day exhibition is for anyone organising business events, from small meetings to large conferences and everything in-between. Meet over 100 venues, destinations, and event suppliers, develop professionally and personally through the education programme and enjoy a VIP experience like no other! If you organise meetings, events, dinners and conferences, whether full time or as part of a wider role within your business then CHS Leeds is for you. Are you a… Corporate Event Manager Event Agent Professional Conference Organiser Venue Finder PAs EA VA Office Manager Association Event Manager Public Sector Event Manager Luxury and Incentive Travel Agent Register now to learn, develop new skills, find great new venues and suppliers and #BeAPartOfIt at CHS Leeds!
Widely regarded as 'The Oscars' of the global exhibition industry, the EN Awards return in 2025! The EN Awards is a one-night celebration; highlighting and embodying the spirit and talent within our tightly knit organiser community.
Designed to unlock the potential and drive growth within the UK’s business events economy, the programme’s speakers and contributors include Shaun Davies MP Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events; Dame Caroline Dinenage DBE MP Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee; and columnist and politician Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE who will be giving delegates his view on the current political and economic landscape.
We are excited and honoured to announce the inaugural Fast Forward15 Mentoring Awards. This exclusive celebration aims to showcase exceptional mentors, mentees, corporates, agency and suppliers that have had a profound impact on the growth and development of talent within the events and hospitality sector. These awards are open to all genders, and all organisations across the sector, including in-house corporate event teams. Scheduled for 24th April 2025, this first-of-its-kind awards ceremony will honour outstanding contributions to mentoring. The Fast Forward15 Mentoring Awards will feature a three-course dinner, a prestigious awards ceremony, and ample networking opportunities.
The Festival of Learning is ABPCO’s educational flagship event providing a key moment for the association events community to come together to network, share and most importantly to learn. Now in its fourth year, the festival will be taking place in person on Tuesday 29 April 2025 at the Eastside Rooms in Birmingham. As well as a full day of learning, the event includes a networking supper and the new event innovation hub the evening prior (see the schedule page for more details). We’re expecting over 150 event professionals and will be exploring the theme – Connect, Collaborate and Challenge.
Production Futures creates opportunities for young people to learn, train, network and develop careers in production across all aspects of live events, film, music, festivals, touring, brand activation, theatre, TV, broadcast and AV installation.
IMEX Frankfurt is where the global meetings, events and incentive travel industry comes together annually for the largest trade show of its kind in Europe. Where 3,800-plus global meeting planners connect with 2,900 suppliers from across the world, building powerful working relationships—to create better events, meetings and experiences. This is where you can walk through the world in a day, immerse yourself in the latest industry developments and ideas, and find yourself at the heart of the global business events community.
The EPA 2025 Awards Night will again be held at the beautiful central London art deco headquarters of RIBA at 66 Portland Place, on Thursday 29th May 2025. Drinks and delicious canapes and bowl food will accompany a display of all the short-listed images, amounting to well over 100 prints. Short-listed photographers enjoy a 50% discount on tickets for their guests. A fun and fast-paced awards ceremony is held RIBA’s 280-seater Jarvis Hall. Every category winner is invited on stage to receive a handsome personalised engraved trophy, while the overall winner also receives a cheque for £1,000.
Backup Tech’s annual summertime day of fun and frivolity, this year renamed The Fabulous Village Fete in celebration of Adam Taylor, aka Adam Fabulous, DJ and long-time supporter of the event, will once again take place at Surrey’s Daytona Sandown Park on Thursday July 10th. With shooting brakes, feather boas, picnic blankets, cake creations and voluminous veg to the fore, the industry is invited to enjoy the event’s perennial favourites, including Best Dresses Fete’r, the hugely popular ‘Bake Off’ and ‘Veg Off’, The Straw Stage for live entertainment and workshops, ‘Peasant’ laser clay Shooting, the Food and Craft Fest stalls and some new additions, to be announced later in the build-up to the day.
IMEX America 2025 is a powerhouse show. It’s the most productive, creative, lovingly designed, inclusive, high-value and enjoyable business and learning experience you can give yourself this year. And the payback on three days of targeted, intentional business conversations? Priceless.
The original and most comprehensive exhibition of products and services for the outdoor, festival and special event world. The 2025 edition of the Show will return to Newbury Showground from 22nd – 23rd October. The Show will see hundreds of suppliers and manufacturers exhibiting the latest products and services available to the event industry. It is an unrivalled market place to discover, learn, and try the latest innovations, meet a diverse range of new suppliers and network with colleagues all in one place, in a fun and relaxed environment. The Show is FREE to attend and open to ALL that supply the event industry or organise outdoor and special events.
The event industry’s reliance on data to help it plan for the future, increase its resilience, manage risk and justify investment decisions, is growing year on year.
The engagement and access that The Power of Events (UK) has across all 7 sectors of the industry, enables data gathering and in-depth research projects to be delivered confidently and consistently. This will be primarily facilitated through the new insight app to be launched on 28th Sep 2023.
By bringing the industry and university partners together, research projects will be designed to deliver real benefits to the industry in terms of trend analysis, insights and performance improvements.
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