Changes in management, developments in convention cities and sites, and trends in organizing professional industry meetings.
Safarti Leaving ASAE & The Center 05/19/2008
Susan Safarti, founding president and CEO of The Center for Assn. Leadership and executive vice president of American Society of Assn. Executives, will resign from both posts effective Aug. 31. More
ICCA Ranks U.S., Vienna on Top Staff - 05/12/2008
For the third year in a row, the Intl. Congress & Convention Assn. named the United States the most popular country to hold an international meeting in and Vienna, Austria, as the most popular city. In 2007, 467 of what the ICCA defines as an international meeting were held in the U.S., and 154 in Vienna alone.
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Schuldenfrei Out, Weisgal In at TSEA By Gary Tufel - 05/12/2008
Stephen Schuldenfrei's sudden announcement that May 15 would be his last day as president of the Trade Show Exhibitors Assn. and the appointment of longtime member Margit B. Weisgal as executive director pose a number of challenges for the exhibitors association.
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ALA Back to New Orleans in '11, '18 Staff - 05/05/2008
In 2006, the American Library Assn. Annual Conference & Exhibition was the first citywide convention to go to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Now, the librarians are returning in 2011 and 2018. "When ALA went to New Orleans in 2006, people thought we were crazy," said ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels.
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Few Shifts At the Top Of TSW 200 By Stephanie Corbin - 05/05/2008
Year to year, the top rungs of the Tradeshow Week 200 see many of the same players. This year was no different. As usual, Intl. CES is No. 1, as it is two out of every three years — the exception being when it has the triennial CONEXPO-CON/AGG as competition, which will be the case with next year's TSW 200.
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Four Associations: One Show 04/28/2008
Four manufacturing trade groups are joining forces to produce a single tradeshow for their industry. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Fabricators and Manufacturers Assn. Intl., American Welding Society and Precision Metalforming Assn. have formed an alliance that will stage the Fabtech Intl. & AWS Welding Show and Metalform.
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Association New Business Contracts 04/28/2008
AMT – The Assn. for Manufacturing Technology has signed Ethnometrics to measure exhibitor and attendee satisfaction at the Intl. Manufacturing Technology Show Sept. 8-13 at Chicago's McCormick Place.
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TSEA Staff Cutbacks Appear to Be Anomaly By Michael Hart - 04/28/2008
Industry association executives said the severe budget cutbacks that forced the Trade Show Exhibitors Assn. to lay off three of its five staff members is an anomaly, and that most of them have not experienced any problems because of the generalized economic downturn – so far.
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Behind The Story Michael Hart, Editor-in-Chief, Tradeshow Week May 14, 2008 What’s Going on in Las Vegas?
At the end of last week, I attended the annual Las Vegas meeting of the Southwest cha... More
Event Tech Blog Stephen Nold, President, Advon Technologies May 13, 2008 Hi, I am NOT a Mac…
When you watch a Mac commercial, you can see very quickly that I resemble the PC gu... More
Event Tech Blog Stephen Nold, President, Advon Technologies May 8, 2008 Introductions
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Please don't romp or roam
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