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As IMEX America starts this week, MD and Owner of Absolute Corporate Events, Chris Parnham gives his thoughts on how to be a good delegate at a trade show…  

. . . but had one fatal flaw, reports Simon Clayton, Chief Ideas Officer, RefTechI recently attended a huge event run by Amazon at ExCeL for over 10,000 techies. It was a really useful and informative day, but one of the most interesting things for me was the event app. Amazon is a giant, a technologically advanced behemoth with huge teams of people at its disposal and the budget and means to create any type of event app they desire.

Within the team we know the pressures and the difficulties of juggling and spinning many plates and diaries. Especially understanding having 3 parties interested in the same date and various agencies pitching. But I have to say, we also have the same problems in an agency too.

According to the 2019 Global Travel Forecast report the business travel industry will be worth $1.6 trillion by 2020. In addition, Allied Market Research finds the global MICE industry generated $752 billion in 2016 and is expected to attain $1,245 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 7.5%.

. . . says Simon Clayton, Chief Ideas Officer, RefTechAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), around 1.5m people in England are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation. The ONS analysed the jobs of 20m people in 2017 and found 7.4% of these were at high risk of being replaced.

…..but nothing ever happens… says Simon Clayton, Chief Ideas Officer, RefTech2018 saw a number of large companies suffer from huge data breaches, but it’s so commonplace these days that every announcement seems to follow a standard process: we read about it in the press, mutter to ourselves ‘oh that’s bad’ and then we move on to read the next news story.

John Fisher, MD of FMI, explains why Brexit is an opportunity not a threatFor those who do not live in Westminster, London, you can be forgiven for not knowing that the UK is planning to leave the EU on March 29th. There has been much handwringing and wailing from politicians and industry sectors about what a disaster this is for all concerned, including many companies on mainland Europe who want to sell stuff to 60m Brits with the minimum of paperwork.

Simon Clayton, Chief Ideas Officer, RefTech, illustrates his point More than 500 million hours of videos are watched on YouTube each day but only a fraction of these attract the millions of users that are needed for something to be classed as ‘going viral’.

Event spaces come in all shapes and sizes, with their own unique features that make them suitable for different types of events. An event space can make or break your event, choosing the correct space is the difference between a successful event and a lacklustre one.