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Geoff Dickinson to lead UFI as President in 2023-24

Event Industry News

Dickinson has supported the association’s mission for many years, taking part in several UFI events as a speaker and being a sponsor of various UFI activities. In 2010 he returned to the corporate world by becoming the CEO of dmg events, a leading organiser of more than 80 events in 25 countries and a publisher of trade magazines.

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CreativeMornings: A Global Community Built on Connection

PCMA Convene

Fast forward to 2019: CreativeMornings now has more than 200 chapters that meet weekly in more than 65 countries — and ultimately working to reverse the trend of loneliness around the world. “I But the way that they interpret it through their speaker in their city, it can be very different.”. I eventually realized there was me.”.

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Face-to-Face Meetings: An Antidote for Loneliness

PCMA Convene

In Norway, which ranked third in the United Nations Sustainable Development 2019 World Happiness Report, 16 percent of the population reported that they are “haunted by loneliness every day,” according to Karen Dolva, CEO and co-founder of No Isolation, a Norwegian startup that makes connection a priority.

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Temporary Fix or Permanent Change? An AV Perspective on the Evolution of Trade Shows

PCMA Convene

Convene sat down with Wargo to hear how AVIXA has retooled its own trade shows — international versions of InfoComm, and Integrated Systems trade shows in Europe and Russia — and its organizational model in the wake of the pandemic. Oftentimes they also have an IT title associated with that.”.

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

“Everyone seemed excited to see us there, because the conference hadn’t been to the United States since 1967,” said Nathan Hermiston, director of destination sales for Meet Minneapolis, whose colorful booth at Apimondia 2015 was the culmination of an 18-month-long bid for Apimondia 2019. Turkey and Russia had the largest voting blocks.