The annual awards that celebrate and champion everyone involved in the events industry: conference & trade-show organisers; in-house events teams in not-for-profits / corporates; events, PR & marketing agencies and venues.
If you love to organise people and logistics, have good planning skills, excel at problem solving and love variety and creativity in your work, then a career in event management may be ideal for you.
Practical event training will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to plan and deliver an event from start to finish.
Considering a career that combines your love of sports with your ability to plan and organise?
The C&IT Festival of Forums is returning for its second year, this time taking place in London between the 5 - 7 July. The event was an action-packed three days of content, meetings and site visits showing our attendees the very best the city had to offer. Our agenda will be crammed full of industry professionals and round table sessions discussing the hottest industry topics ensuring that all attendees leave with how they can improve on the amazing work they already do. Get involved and register your interest to ensure you don't miss any announcements.
Now in its eighth year, Backup's annual Kart-Fest brings together company's and freelancers from across the technical side of the industry for a fantastic social day. Initially started as a Karting event, it has grown to incorporate a range of activities and networking... a must in the social calendar!
‘Industry 4.0 – Collaborations, Connections & Community’
Enjoy one-to-one appointments with 20 inspirational venues, experience amazing hospitality from our host venue (including complimentary accommodation), network with event profs from across the industry and leave armed with new connections and all the venue knowledge you’ll need for your next event!
We're heading to The NEC, Birmingham for the next edition of Ops Foundation. Care to join us? Four days of high-octane ops training. We'll be exploring the venue, getting hands on with rigging and electrics, experiencing AV like never before with PSP Exhibitions, navigating forklifts and customs with DSV - Global Transport and Logistics, understanding the strength of a good graphics brief with Bang On Graphics, building system with beMatrix , learning scheduling, budgeting, our place in the industry and much more! We also have some very special guests dropping in to impart their wisdom including Adam Parry of Event Industry News, Marisa Beckman of Inovent and Michelle Adderley of NEC Birmingham.
Event venues require professional organisational skills and an ability to manage a wide range of events including conferences, exhibitions, product launches, congresses, conventions, weddings, sports, concerts, competitions, community and special events.
Whether you’re at an early stage of your career and aiming for promotion or entering a supervisory or team leader role for the first time - a professional development course in leadership and management can improve your skills and prospects.
DO YOU ORGANISE UNIQUE EVENTS OR EVENTS THAT REQUIRE UNIQUE VENUES AND SUPPLIERS? DO YOU HIRE EVENT VENUES AND SUPPLIERS? Save yourself 30 days travelling around the UK by attending this one event! Your strength as an event organiser is simply measured by your contacts book and your ability to achieve results and deliver an event each time, no matter how big or small. Your level of results are dependent on the level of seniority of your contacts within the event industry's newest and most charismatic venues and suppliers? Has the covid lockdown annihilated your contacts book? Is it lost and outdated? Do suppliers not know 'who you are'? Do you need the top contacts to make the difference between your next unique event being a Stand Out Event or a Go Home Event?
A career in Wedding Planning offers the opportunity to create memorable moments for your wedding couple and their family and friends.
This online Mental Health First Aider Course is particularly pertinent right now where we might be concerned about ourselves or our colleagues in this challenging time. This course is the mental health equivalent of physical first aid. The training provides participants with the skills and confidence to recognise the signs and symptoms of common mental health issues and effectively guide a person towards the right support.
Raising money for a fantastic charity. The Sticky Wicket Steering Group is a collective of event and exhibition industry people passionate about events and sports and want to raise money for a fantastic charity, Lord’s Taverners, for whom we have raised just shy of £500,000 over the last 15 years!
Join us July 24-27 at the leading event industry conference for event, marketing, and hospitality professionals. A leading event industry conference for event, marketing, and hospitality professionals. Get fresh perspectives. Learn and share best practices. Build your network. Leave inspired.
The flagship event for entertainment technology showcases technological advancements from the worlds of audio, AV, lighting, rigging and staging.
Guides for Brides invite you to meet and connect with like-minded wedding professionals at the stunning Horwood House, Buckinghamshire. Level up in your sales and marketing efforts with an insightful talk from wedding industry expert Becca Pountney You will also get the chance to explore one of Buckinghamshire's top wedding venues.
Over the past few years, sustainability has become a critical global priority due to our increasing awareness of the risks our planet faces without immediate action. Embracing the concept of sustainability is vital, but it's essential to first comprehend its meaning and implications. Successfully launched in 2022, the CN Sustainability Summit is an ideal opportunity to examine what the events sector is doing well and identify areas for improvement. This event provides a platform to evaluate the industry’s sustainable impact, discuss best practices and generate ideas on how to address the key issues hindering efforts to create a sustainable future for 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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