Remove 2003 Remove Events Remove Food and Beverage Remove Sustainability
article thumbnail

How Austria’s Innovative ‘Fifteen Seconds Festival’ Challenges the Status Quo

PCMA Convene

“What we do,” Thiemo Gillissen, the event’s co-founder and partner, told Convene, “is a business conference done differently.”. First impressions can be everything, hence the name of the event, which is held every year in Graz, Austria. SUSTAINABILITY. “We FOOD AND BEVERAGE. HOST DESTINATION: GRAZ.

article thumbnail

Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine. Compared to most fields, Shure wrote, even in 2003, “the profession is still in its infancy.”. “We

2012 56