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How sustainable was COP 25 Madrid

Gallus Events

The UN Climate Conference took place in Madrid in Dec 2019. The UN Conference on Climate Change was a massive event, by anyone’s standards. Some 20,000 delegates and observers attended the Ministerial Conference. So the organisers also looked to: organise a paper light conference. stream some of the sessions.

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The Madrid Marriott Auditorium Joins The RendezVerse Revolution

Exhibitor Magazine

Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel and Conference Centre enters the RendezVerse, as a development partner enhancing their commitment to the flexible futur.

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EventsCase gears up for 2020 with Dubai and Madrid expansion

Event Industry News

EventsCase, the all-in-one event management software, has announced the opening of two new offices in Dubai and Madrid as part of its rapid plans for expansion.

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What is Stopping International Attendees from Returning to U.S. Conferences?

Smart Meetings

As that eases, it could not only help increase the ability to bring attendees to conferences from China, but other countries as well as Chinese visitors have been rerouting through neighboring destinations to get to their California events. Europe Madrid, Spain European residents are aligned with U.S. Conferences?

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Adjusting Strategies to Changing Business Models

PCMA Convene

ESTRO met in Madrid in 2021 with the goal of raising awareness in the overall destination of the use of radiotherapy as a way to treat cancer. So if they have a challenge with cancer, they want to host oncology conferences. If they have a challenge with young people being homeless, they want to host conferences about housing.

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Flight shaming in the events industry

Gallus Events

In December 2019 I travelled to Madrid to attend the Sustainable Innovation Summit, an official side event at the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference. COP 25, the UN Climate Change Conference, which has the objective to move the United Nations Paris Agreement into practical action, really couldn’t have got off to a worse start.

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COP 26 Glasgow fails to punch above its weight

Gallus Events

The conurbation of the old “second city of the empire” is home to over one and a half million people but it has been swamped by the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP 26). At the last COP in Madrid, I snapped a security guard idly standing next to a lamp heating himself and the air, plastic water bottle in his pocket. .