2018

ALM – Private Client Global Series by Legal Week

The Private Client Global Series by Legal Week has its roots in the long-running, hugely successful International Private Client Forum, an annual gathering of international private client lawyers, now in its 16th year. The International Private Client Forum, along with the other flagship conference, Trust & Estates Litigation Forum, serve private client planners and litigators respectively, and are unique in the sector in that delegate applications are only accepted from law firms. Any non-law firm delegates wishing to attend (accountancies, consultants) are required to attend in a sponsorship capacity.

These two events in Europe are supplemented by the Private Client Forum Americas (Mexico) and the Private Client Forum Asia (Singapore), extending the global reach of the series to The Americas and Asia. Both of these events are open to delegates that have client interests in, or are based in, the respective regions.

The Private Client Global Series includes:

– Private Client Global Elite Dinner, United Kingdom
– International Private Client Forum, Italy
– Private Client Forum Asia, Singapore
– Private Client Forum Americas, Mexico
– Trust & Estates Litigation Forum, France

Criticaleye – Criticaleye Leadership Retreats

Criticaleye’s Retreat series offers a fresh and unique approach to attendees. Designed for senior business executives in leadership roles, many of whom have very little time so need to maximise the value they get out of events, Criticaleye Retreats are entirely tailored to each individual’s needs – from the content of the keynote speeches down to the one-to-one interactions and conversations amongst delegates.

A Membership Community for CEOs and their leadership teams, Criticaleye inspires leaders to succeed via the content of our Retreats around an in-depth understanding of the challenges organisations and leadership teams are facing. Partners and speakers were selected on the basis of their contribution and value to delegates, and attendees were all leaders and academics from leading businesses and institutions.

Based on the level of attendees and highly confidential subject matter discussed, the outcomes of Criticaleye’s Retreats are likely to play a crucial role in shaping business strategy for organisations and their leaders.

Infopro Digital – OpRisk North America & OpRisk Europe

Infopro Digital’s conference series, OpRisk North America and OpRisk Europe, continues to grow consistently year on year both in terms of content, attendees, revenue and profit. The challenge in 2017 was to continue adding growth to sponsorship and deliver an outstanding delegate experience to ensure following repeat bookings. We were able to do this by careful mapping and understanding of our client universe, the creation of a senior level industry advisory board, implementation of new speaker and session format innovations, and by ensuring delegates could leave with the practical take-aways they sought.

ICIS – Base Oils & Lubricants Conference

Today’s ICIS Base Oils Conference series consists of 6 events. Initiating from the original, World Base Oils conference, which launched in 1997:

– World Base Oils & Lubricants Conference
– Middle Eastern Base Oils & Lubricants Conference
– Pan American Base Oils & Lubricants Conference
– Asian Base Oils & Lubricants Conference
– African Base Oils & Lubricants Conference
– Indian Base Oils & Lubricants Conference

Base oils are one of the outputs from the crude oil refining process – representing only 1% of the barrel. To create and maintain a portfolio of events for this niche industry, which at the same time is commercially very successful and growing year on year, shows real dedication and commitment from the team to deliver valuable, unique and insightful events each time.

Since 2012 the revenue of the portfolio has increased six fold, not only through the addition of new geo-clones to the event but also through more extensive marketing and impressive growth on each individual edition.
Our goal is simple – to deliver the best-known, highest quality conference in each sphere of operation. Providing a ‘one-stop-shop’ to meet the industry and gain essential knowledge to face future challenges within each of the regions.

we.CONECT Global Leaders – Smart Mobility Series

The we.CONECT automotive event series encompasses 7 unique, leading knowledge-exchange platforms for automotive professionals, innovative technical pioneers and the top decision-makers, for them to learn about the most innovative technologies, how OEMs, Tier-1s, tech start-ups, research institutes and suppliers (the major stakeholders in the automotive industry) pave their way into our vehicles and also to create a connected international automotive we.CONECT community.

We listen to our automotive community’s needs, core challenges and offer them an intimate space to resolve them. We grow with them as a key industry partner and ensure we address the issues that they entrust us with. We hand-pick all speakers, delegates and business partners to ensure high quality and 100% meaningful connections and networks are both made and strengthened.

Ultimately, with the automotive series – Tech.AD Europe, Tech.AD USA, Auto.AI Europe, Auto.AI USA, Car HMI Europe, Car HMI USA, Auto Agile PEP Europe – we provide an opportunity for our international automotive community to shape the agenda in their fields of expertise and the future of the automotive industry.

Whitehall Media – Big Data Analytics

Whitehall Media’s Big Data Analytics series are enterprise-level events where hundreds of leading innovators, thought-leaders and executive professionals discuss and impart insights on how to integrate, understand, manage and govern Big Data. This practical business forum provides bold vision from leading data evangelists to help delegates gain fresh insights and momentum to galvanise and leverage their data for competitive advantage.

C21Media – Content London

You know you’re doing something right when an award-winning conference venue cites you as “the best event we’ve worked on in recent years”.

Kings Place’s business development director was quoted in January saying: “[Content London 2017] embraced all that the venue had to offer and their event impacted every department within the venue… The whole venue was transformed with branding, production and furniture. It was an absolute joy to work with such open-minded and creative clients”.

Content London has grown from a 200-person gathering to a market-leading £1m+ conference and networking event for the entertainment industry. Attracting more than 1,500 key players from the global content business and increasing revenue by 823% in the five years since launch.

Its success demonstrates how to extend a market-leading publishing brand into a market-leading conference business, exploiting the converged offering to deliver an ‘unfair advantage’ that standalone events struggle to compete with.

Content London 2017 was a hit, selling out six weeks before the event and showing year-on-year growth of 135% in delegate revenue and 43% in sponsorship revenue, going 18% over target.

It transformed parent company C21Media’s business, showing how conferences can be integrated into publishing businesses with dramatic effect.

ClinkClink / TMH – Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week Opening Ceremony & Zayed Future Energy Prize 2018

ClinkClink and TMH were privileged to work in partnership with Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company to conceptualise and implement a memorable opening ceremony for Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week which seamlessly incorporated the 10th anniversary celebration of the Zayed Future Energy Prize. The event took place on January 15th 2018 at ADNEC in Abu Dhabi with over 4,000 delegates attending including the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of Masdar. Taking inspiration from the ’Butterfly Effect’ theory, we developed a core theme that illustrated how the smallest actions, when taken together, can have a massive impact. We created a memorable event for all who attended, from the pre-show awareness campaign to the opening ceremony’s grand finale, the state-of-art kinetic lighting, impact movies, motion graphics branding elements through to the live performances. All successfully managed and produced by ClinkClink and TMH from initial concept planning through to on site event delivery and production.

Contentive – HRD Summit

HRD Summit 2018 sought to create an environment in which a community of HR leaders could create an organisation that is fit for the future. This meant engineering higher level learning and collaboration and connecting them with innovative suppliers who could help deliver in this new world. This was achieved through innovative session such as “Co-Labs” and Escape Rooms.
For sponsors this meant further enhancing the methods of connecting to our community, providing trusted forms of engagement that would provide measurable ROI.

The result was the delivery of 963 delegates, against target of 800 delegates. And over achievement on our financial targets, ending at 15.2% over budget with a dramatic 51.1% increase in revenue YOY.

Euromoney Trading – Investing in African Mining Indaba

Putting our audience and sector’s needs front and centre for 2018, the Mining Indaba team completely overhauled a tired looking brand to breathe new life into the event for its 24th edition.

The team’s aim was to take Mining Indaba back to a fully focused mining investment event, thus driving investment into the African continent. By introducing areas for emerging mining companies, alongside increasing investor attendance by 22% and mining company attendance by 47% year on year, then the team can definitively say that they achieved this goal.

Overcoming the external challenge Cape Town’s water crisis the team delivered an event that changed industry perceptions for the better, with NPS scores increasing from -25 to +29 in the year. This coupled with a 14% increase in overall attendance and 18% increase in revenue shows the extent of the 2018 edition’s success.

Haymarket Media Group – CIPD Annual Conference & Exhibition 2017 – Embracing the New World of Work

The CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE) is the CIPD’s flagship event and largest gathering of HR and learning professionals in the UK It brings together more than 4000 people professionals to share insights and solutions on issues facing the profession and the wider world of work. The 70th anniversary of the event was held on 8-9 November 2017 in Manchester, and was delivered by Haymarket Media Group following a strategic partnership between CIPD and Haymarket.

The event theme was ‘Embracing the New World of Work’, focusing on the major shifts affecting organisations, the people profession, and the world of work at large. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the event, Baroness Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of Lastminute com, delivered an inspiring opening keynote on technology and digital inclusion – and Conductor Gernot Schulz, together with a 40-strong Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra, delivered a spectacular orchestral experience as a closing keynote, demonstrating the parallels between leading teams and conducting musicians.

With 32 conference sessions and +60 conference speakers, +200 exhibitors, 60 free showcases, +1600 conference delegates and +2500 exhibition visitors – the 70th edition of ACE was the most successful event to date.

Health Service Journal (HSJ) part of Wilmington Healthcare – HSJ Patient Safety Congress 2017

Patient Safety Congress the UK’s best regarded and best-known safety event. It is produced by Health Service Journal (HSJ), part of Wilmington Healthcare. The Congress has built up this reputation over a decade by showcasing content that is evidence based, challenging and inspirational. The high-quality programme is developed in partnership with patient safety experts, and draws together real-life patient stories, innovative international perspectives and practical, applicable case studies from front-line practitioners who are doing it themselves. Congress attracts an average of 1000 attendees every year. Here’s why so many people prioritize their attendance at the event:

– To take away tangible solutions they can adopt in their organization: In 2017, 84% of people came away with an actionable idea they could implement from the event
– To hear national updates from senior NHS leaders and understand how the national picture is affecting their work on the frontline
– For genuine patient involvement: Every session has input from a patient speaker with unique insight to share. This ensures the patient voice is at the heart of the event
– To be inspired by a fabulous range of relevant international case studies and examples from other industries

Find out more at https://patientsafetycongress.co.uk

Ocean Media Group – HOMES 2017

HOMES is the premier event experience for those working at a high level in strategic asset management, residential development and procurement solutions in the affordable housing sector.

For over 6 years, our mission has been to help housing providers build and manage quality homes, more efficiently and more effectively. This is through a combination of an innovative learning programme, exhibition and invaluable networking experiences that inform, innovate and bring the perfect mix of housing providers and suppliers together to shape business strategy.

Led by a vibrant mix of trail-blazing peers, inspirational thought leaders and out of sector innovators, HOMES offers housing professionals the most comprehensive and engaging free learning programme of any event, focusing on real-world, practical solutions you can implement straight away.

Plus with over 20 hours of networking opportunities on offer and 150+ leading housing suppliers in attendance, HOMES is a fantastic opportunity to catch up with your contacts, meet suppliers and build new business relationships.

Taking place in London and attracting 451 housing providers at a senior level, the event is free to attend, so there is no better way to spend two days out of the office in order to move your organisation forward.

WONDER London – Google Cloud Next 2017

Google Cloud NEXT 17 was a six-stage Europe-wide event series and the largest Google Cloud event in Europe to date. It kicked off at ExCel London on 3-4 May 2017 across five halls (20,000 m²). WONDER London brought the Google brand to life for 4,500+ delegates comprised of tech and IT developers and decision-makers, plus wider tech leaders. The interactive conference enabled delegates to choose from 50+ hours of content and 85+ speakers. Keynote speeches in the main plenary session were followed by delegates moving freely between 60 breakout sessions featuring live demos of cutting-edge tech. The floor plan itself and all related design focused on taking the delegates on a journey, ensuring they were able to make the most of everything the event had to offer. An interactive playground “Partner Pavilion” featured demo pods from 26 key brand partners; while business owners who already use Google Cloud Platform were present to advise delegates and show the tech in action. WONDER developed a design language to be used as creative wallpaper across the entire series that could be easily realised in both physical and graphical form, ensuring the identity remained consistent across all locations.

Clarion Events Limited – Sports Betting USA

What makes our conference so unique is the team behind it. The passion the team have for the events we launch and run is immeasurable. They strive to make the experience of each and every delegate, personal, memorable and unforgettable. Our Sport Betting USA event was no different, which lead to it’s huge success.

Criticaleye – Criticaleye CFO Retreat

In 2017, Criticaleye held its first Retreat for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and finance leaders. Following huge demand from this section of our Membership Community for a conference dedicated to the challenges and topics impacting on their roles, we decided to add the CFO Retreat to our annual Retreat series which includes our HR Director Retreat, our Private Equity Retreat, our CEO Retreat, our Asia Leadership Retreat and our Non-executive Director Retreat.

We are a Membership Community for C-suite executives and leadership teams. Criticaleye inspires leaders to succeed via the content of our Retreats around an in-depth understanding of the challenges organisations and leadership teams are facing. Partners and speakers were selected on the basis of their contribution and value to delegates, and attendees were all leaders and academics from leading businesses and institutions.

Energy Live News – Energy Live Future

Delegates were in for an out of this world experience at the Energy Live Future (https://www.energylivenews.com/eln_event/energy-live-future/) event, which attracted more than 250 people with £2 billion worth of energy spend.

The part expo, part laboratory and part conference event covered everything from solar panels in space, internet of things, disruptive technologies, blockchains, virtual reality and electric vehicles. Other sessions included Energy Tech Tinder, Disrupt the Energy Market and Far Out Energy, which were also fully subscribed.

The futuristic event at the National Space Centre in Leicester attracted large energy users, with around £2 billion of energy spend. Delegates said the event was inspirational, exciting and excellent, with some planning to trial products showcased to help reduce energy costs.
One of the delegates said: “I love the Energy Live News ethos. I love the sense of humour that’s there and understanding that we don’t have to be totally serious even when we are serious about business.”

Another added: “I’ve seen lots of wonderful products that I’m hoping to trial that will save us lots of energy.” Other delegates said it was “excellent”, “inspirational” and enjoyed finding out about new technologies.

Forgather with CognitionX – CogX 2017

It has been predicted that AI will add an additional $814bn to the UK economy by 2035, and increase labour productivity by up to 40% Our client, CognitionX – a market intelligence platform for all things AI – had a vision to create a ground-breaking AI conference and awards ceremony The founders needed an event partner they could trust to pull it off in record time The inaugural CogX was a two-day innovation exchange for 1200, held at The Brewery, London, featuring three content tracks, 18 sessions, 44 exhibitors, 100+ speakers and an awards dinner to celebrate the most innovative contributors to AI “With just 3 months to go before our event we knew we needed an event production partner who could match our passion and ambition Whilst we concentrated on the content and sales, Forgather provided all the key event delivery services It was the first event we’d produced of this scale, and with limited in-house resource we needed a partner who was not only an expert in event planning but a mind reader, tech specialist and experienced sounding board Forgather stood with us shoulder to shoulder and it was a pleasure working with them on CogX” Tabitha Goldstaub

Global Business Club (GBC) – Downstream Tatarstan

The aim of the inaugural Downstream Tatarstan conference was to showcase high potential of the downstream sector in the region and to offer great business matchmaking opportunities between regional project owners and leading international technology suppliers.

Bringing together more than 290 delegates from all over the world, the conference has put regional trends into international context and brought the latest worldwide expertise to this rapidly developing region.

Despite economic instability and the sanctions imposed on Russia, GBC Ltd managed organise a top-level event which is now recognised by the industry, has the full support of the local government and most importantly, has a great future.

KnowNow – Keeping Crime Out of Gambling and Social Responsibility for Gambling Operators

KnowNow Ltd ‘s first event was a two day smash hit for senior managers and those working in compliance and player protection in the gambling industry. Gambling is a sector going through fundamental change and tightening of regulation. The KnowNow event succeeded in bringing together operators, regulators, charities helping with gambling related harm and leading researchers. They explored all of the key issues and made sure there were plenty of practical takeaways.

This was not just a launch event, it was the very first event for this organisation who believe in promoting ethics in the gambling industry. It really established KnowNow as a player in the gambling community.

Keeping Crime out of Gambling and Social Responsibility for Gambling Operators was two days of interesting content designed to help the sector continue to boom commercially whilst taking player protection to the next level. Feedback from delegates was that this is exactly what they need at exactly the right time.

Oliver Kinross – AI Congress

The AI Congress was a highly innovative and extremely successful event launch that made use of an iconic venue, top-level content, multiple feature areas, plentiful networking sessions, powerful décor and an abundance of entertainment.

Qubist – WAVE 2017: The Influence 2.0 Marketing Summit

Employee and customer advocacy was the focus of the inaugural WAVE 2017: Influence 2.0 Marketing Summit bringing together 150 expert digital practitioners and decision makers in Central London to debate the latest thinking on social influence, advocacy and engagement.

QUBIST is the UK’s leading employee advocacy solution. For brands looking to grow authentic brand awareness and generate high value leads Qubist enables you to quickly scale measurable employee word-of-mouth.

Qubist is trusted by brands including George at Asda, Suzuki, Iceland Foods, Air Mauritius and Institute of Chartered Accountants.

The new employee and customer advocacy summit was held at King’s Place with standing room only for the opening keynote speech from Brian Solis, Principal Analyst, Altimeter and best-selling author from San Francisco. Brands and agencies giving delegates authoritative insight included: General Electric, Lenovo, COPA 90, Pitney Bowes, We Are Social and Bazaarvoice.

On the day, quotes, images and video were published on Qubist’s own tool giving the audience relevant, quality content to share to their own networks. This supported 150 delegates to engage on social media, leading to 1,366 Twitter endorsements and a 6-hour trending hashtag. A diverse delegate list, structured networking, live illustrator and interactive environment delivered overwhelmingly positive feedback.

ALM – Legal Week Connect

Legal Week Connect London was launched in reaction to the numerous calls from the legal industry to CONNECT those in charge of their legal business, from Managing and Senior Partners through to Project Managers, Heads of Innovation as well as functional Department Heads and General Counsel.

Our goal was to assist legal departments with developing into cross-functional, collaborative machines as the feedback from the market had been that they are tired of working in silos and not making the most of one another’s knowledge.
We had speakers from every walk of life, who were tasked with making each audience member step outside of the legal stratosphere and look at how they could implement connection from other industries to their own.

Our connection with our editorial teams and ambassador groups allowed for us to create and disseminate a welcome programme into the market. It was also recognised that the firms themselves need to go a long way in relation to their cross function connectivity and our programme began this process for many.

Business Reporter – The European Information Security Summit (TEISS)

TEISS 2018 – The European Information Security Summit – is produced in association with Business Reporter/TEISS: Cracking Cyber Security publications. The conference tackles the most pressing issues of cyber security and risk across all business sectors, focusing on practical approaches and lessons that can be learned from different markets. The publication produces articles throughout the year which keep awareness of the event high, and the event contributes interviews and reports to the publication throughout its production cycle.

Fully CPD-certified, TEISS runs three parallel conference tracks addressing the challenges of awareness and cultural change, data and technology management, and securing the internet of things. This approach – focusing on skills within the broader industry, rather than problems specific to limited vertical markets – has helped to make it the largest event of its kind in Europe.

C21Media – Content London

You know you’re doing something right when an award-winning conference venue cites you as “the best event we’ve worked on in recent years”.

Kings Place’s business development director was quoted in January saying: “[Content London 2017] embraced all that the venue had to offer and their event impacted every department within the venue… The whole venue was transformed with branding, production and furniture. It was an absolute joy to work with such open-minded and creative clients”.

Content London has grown from a 200-person gathering to a market-leading £1m+ conference and networking event for the entertainment industry. Attracting more than 1,500 key players from the global content business and increasing revenue by 823% in the five years since launch.

Its success demonstrates how to extend a market-leading publishing brand into a market-leading conference business, exploiting the converged offering to deliver an ‘unfair advantage’ that standalone events struggle to compete with.

Content London 2017 was a hit, selling out six weeks before the event and showing year-on-year growth of 135% in delegate revenue and 43% in sponsorship revenue, going 18% over target.

It transformed parent company C21Media’s business, showing how conferences can be integrated into publishing businesses with dramatic effect.

Energy Live News – Energy Live Expo

Energy Live Expo (http://www.energylivenews.com/eln_event/expo/) was established by Energy Live News (ELN) in November 2012. It has now become the go-to-event for both end users and suppliers in the energy world. With more than 650 delegates and accounting for 25% of our turnover. It is a huge event. But when it started it nearly bankrupted the company, to say it has been a roller coaster is an understatement.

Success for Energy Live Expo is very easy to quantify. From 2012 to 2017 we have had the following growth:

– Delegates from 420 to 650
– Delegates’ energy spend at the event from £1bn to more than £3bn
– Revenue increase of 277%
– Major partners from one to four
– Six content sessions to 30
– One content area to seven

We just wanted to put on a show that highlighted energy and would be the number one conference for energy end users. Energy Live Expo has become that show.

Don’t take our word for it, here are what the delegates say http://www.energylivenews.com/2017/11/03/energy-live-expo-delegates-say-it-was-a-hit/.

And if you want a flavour of what we do, here are the highlights http://www.energylivenews.com/2017/11/14/inaugural-energy-live-expo-tops-all-expectations/.

FinTech Futures – Banking Technology Awards 2017

Now in its 19th year, the Banking Technology Awards recognise excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services worldwide, and the people who make it happen.

The awards are well-established and reputable in the tech industry, and have been around long before all the tech stuff was cool and trendy! In 2017, the Awards were the largest for us to date – in terms of the number of attendees and nominations.

We have completely revamped and re-launched Banking Technology Awards in 2017, including the awards categories, logo/branding, website, social media and marketing materials.

Our efforts and the outcome have been welcomed by the global fintech community and have surpassed our expectations – with the entries to take part in our awards more than doubled compared to 2016 and the number of guests attending the ceremony also doubled.

A great example of a successful combination of the long history and innovation!

Global Trade Review (GTR) – GTR Mena Trade & Export Finance Week 2018

First held in 2003, GTR’s MENA Trade & Export Finance Week has been running for 15 years, completing its most recent instalment on February 19-22, 2018. The event brings together companies of all sizes (multinationals, SMEs, mid-caps) to meet with the financial services community, including trade experts, fintech innovators, bankers, insurers, lawyers and government bodies to discuss recent global developments, focusing on key issues and profiling regional trade hotspots. 2018 saw record attendance with over 670 delegates participating on a range of topics, from new trade flows and patterns, successful examples of infrastructure projects, geopolitical trends, funding obstacles and the contrasting priorities of different-sized companies.

Infopro Digital – OpRisk North America

OpRisk North America is the largest and longest running conference for Operational Risk professionals in the financial services industry. It has grown consistently year on year both in terms of content, attendees, revenue and profit. 2017 exceeded all expectations thanks to collaboration between producer, editors and a senior level practitioner advisory board, the execution of a carefully crafted sponsorship strategy and enhancement of the delegate conference experience.

Russell Publishing – Food Fraud

Food fraud is causing the food and beverage industry to lose up to £12bn annually, it’s therefore paramount that the industry connects, collaborates and eradicates fraud across the supply chain

Food Fraud 2018 reunited Food Manufacturers, Supermarkets, Processors, Suppliers, Technology Companies, and Academia from around the globe for an unmissable day of sharing best practice, lessons learned, detection & prevention methods.

Food Fraud was the first event New Food had ever launched, to achieve all targets and objectives in year 1 and year 2 is an amazing accomplishment. We attained this through working closely with the industry, significantly evolving the programmes content, strong-team work and cross company collaboration. In a short-period of time, the team have created an annual conference that is now a must attend in the Food & Beverage industry calendar.

Campden Wealth – Events Team

In June 2017, the event operations team at Campden Wealth embarked upon one the most logistically complex event projects in its history. Having secured a palace belonging to the Czech nobility to host their annual European Families in Business and Awards event, the team had to navigate a number of logistical complexities as a result of the high security surrounding the venue whilst ensuring seamless execution of event operations that its audience enjoys as standard at Campden events. With strategic preparation and planning, negotiation, communication and teamwork, the project ran successfully in the face of a number of challenges. The team also worked to showcase the family and history of the venue itself, providing an unforgettable and unique experience for its guests.

Festival of Media – Operations Team

There are some jobs in this world that sometimes seem like an impossible task, like being Donald Trump’s Press Secretary for example. Thankfully, the two people who make up our Operations Team are seasoned pro’s at making the impossible possible.

The Festival of Media LatAm 2017 in Miami is a fantastic example of how they ripped up the format of our previous traditional events to create a multi-zone show that was not only experiential, engaging, educational and inspirational, our delegates were able to immerse themselves in the content from each zone.

HGA – Live Events

Live Experience experts HGA, put together a showstopping celebration for the 50th anniversary and staff conference of social housing group Hyde.

One of the major strengths of this agency is having all its experts – from live events and AV tech, to design, digital and video – working together under one roof. As a result, the team could deliver a spectacle that returned on the client’s objectives – creating a celebration of the past and launching a new brand and new strategy for the future through innovative experiences. From the decadent seaside theming to interactive market stalls for each department, HGA designed and built sets using the in-house resources, captured moving video that brought home the power of the brand and delivered engaging content through diverse and creative formats. The powerful collaboration and dedication of the team delivered Hyde’s best event yet!

Incisive Business Media – Event Operations Team

At Incisive Media our operations team may be small but what we create is mighty. Eight individuals combine to make two teams who work across 11 brands to deliver 160+ events including awards, breakfast briefings, conferences, webinars, bespoke retreats, roundtables and an exhibition, this year achieving a 15% increase on 2016.

The team are always looking to learn and working across several brands facilitates ways of sharing best practice tips to capitalise on the wealth of knowledge amongst us. Training is also paramount, external training courses have been tailored and rolled out internally, to ensure the team is well practised in contract negotiation and health and safety regulations.

Incisive Media’s operations team works on a diverse portfolio of events and this year we have expanded this with the launch of two new awards; Women in Investment and Women in IT Excellence Awards. We are always striving to be at the forefront of the industries we operate in so these launches were extremely important to us and we were thrilled they were so successful.

Pure Events – Operations Team

Our team are truly inspirational, they support and mentor each other and constantly show Pure We are truly proud of our Operations Team and especially the team who worked on the annual Baringa Partners September Event Series, due to the wealth of expertise that the team have individually and when brought together they combine an extraordinary mix of creativity with unparalleled logistics expertise. This is imperative for this particular event which involved intense data management for 650 adults and 100 children. Out of the team, 3 members of the team have been awarded the C&IT A List accreditation; Charlotte Wilson, Genine Norman and Janine Hart and Nicola Roodt has been nominated for this year. Our team constantly show total commitment to the company as well as to their careers. We are extremely proud that they are representatives of who we are as a company and they live and breathe our values of Integrity, excellence, commitment, elegance, innovation and attention to detail. We are proud to say as a full team we were awarded ‘Challenger Agency Of The Year’ at the EVCOM Live Awards in November 2017 due to our impressive growth curve and the skill set of our team.

Reed Business Information – Event Operations Team

RBI Event Operations & Registrations are a professional, passionate, hard-working and commercially focussed team, who blend tactical and strategic activity to ensure that our delegates receive the best possible service before, during and after each event.

With year-on-year growth within the department and 55 international events in 2017, we understand what it is like to work under pressure, with all the demands of a big business, the unpredictability of live events and the expectation of a very high level of execution. That we consistently improve on cost saving while tracking higher year-on-year documented levels of customer satisfaction is testament to the dedication of the team, their passion for winning and their focus.
Our goal is simple – deliver the best event experience for our customers whilst enhancing our company’s brands, enabling them to deepen their customer and stakeholder relationships and be seen as the thought leaders in that area.

Wellcome – Conference & Events Team

Welcome to the Wellcome Conference & Events team, we adopt the slogan, ‘alone we are good, together we are brilliant!’ We want to be the leaders in the provision of our service, being open to the widest of ideas and thinking, bringing respect and the sharing of knowledge for our people. We are approachable, flexible and have the expertise to deliver the highest standards. We provide an innovative, quality and sustainable service, independent, profitable and passionate, respecting safety, environment and our people.

Our team of Conference Organisers provide a fully dedicated support for any type of event, whether taking place at Wellcome, an external venue in the UK, or overseas. The team make our events a reality, helping you from the first planning meeting through to the event delivery, to ensure the smooth running of each and every event we host. With our team of five dynamic Conference and Event Organisers we have a wealth of experience and know-how. With a combined experience of over 80+ years, our knowledgeable team ensures our events exceed all our hosts highest expectations.

Business Design Centre – BDC Conference Centre

The Business Design Centre in Islington plays host to over 200 meetings and conferences every year. Formerly the Royal Agricultural Hall, the stunning building was rescued from demolition and reopened in 1986 as a trade, exhibition and conference complex. The venue attracts over 500,000 annually.

The BDC Conference Centre is run by Max, Kate, Emma, Charlotte, Lowri and Eveyln, along with amazing service partners. The venue hosts clients from a variety of sectors including, charities, finance and technology.

We do our utmost to understand the content and different requirements of each event. We work with the organiser to try and come up with creative ways to make their events unique and ensure that we do everything to give them every facility they need.

Cavendish Conference Centre

For 10 years we have strived remorselessly for excellence in customer service. Most importantly we have tried to build the best team in the business. We are proud of our record when it comes to staff retention. Through continuity of personnel, we can offer continuity and excellence of service. Combine this with the best people attracted through the best working conditions and we believe we can truly offer industry bearing customer service. Our history of customer retention bears witnesses to this.

Center Parcs Conferences & Events – The Venue

Center Parcs offers a refreshing and unique alternative to the conference, meetings and events market. The group boasts four stunning locations across the UK with beautiful accommodation in woodland settings, venues that host up to 600 delegates and an extensive range of onsite teambuilding activities. The success of Center Parcs has been built upon excellent customer service, and this premise is at the very heart of the business. Our conference and events department have been fortunate enough to learn from the wider leisure business – which excels in serving over 2m visitors annually. ‘No’ is not a word you hear often from the events team and we have assisted clients with all manner of requests over and above providing a meeting space. Our employees all have one thing in common: we come together to work hard and with a sense of purpose, bringing the best of ourselves to create memorable experiences for our guests in the great outdoors.

Green & Fortune – Kings Place

Kings Place is a modern and purpose built venue in the heart of Kings Cross featuring a diverse and versatile selection of spaces, including two auditoriums, a canal-side banqueting room with private terrace, two private dining rooms, art galleries, a restaurant and a handful of smaller meeting rooms that can be used as breakout spaces or individually.

Since opening in 2008, Kings Place has established itself as a leading conference and events space providing all catering, AV and production services in-house for a variety of events from a large scale conference with exhibition stands to drinks receptions, boardroom meetings and private dinners.

State-of-the-art-technology is included as standard as the venue boasts extensive in-house IT, production and broadcast teams on-site, at the organisers disposal. Plus satellite connectivity installed on the roof, a dedicated 1GB internet line and with a location five minutes from the transport hub of Kings Cross and St Pancras International, Kings Place is one of London’s best connected venues.

Customer service is embodied in the day to day operations of the venue, as customer service is at the heart of everything the venue does, from training and staff inductions to the sales and events management.

One Great George Street

One Great George Street lives up to its name by successfully juggling its historic beauty with technical innovation and exceptional service. With its enviable location a stone’s throw away from the Houses of Parliament, it attracts an array of diverse customers, but it never rests on its laurels. Its dedication to customer service reaches every corner of its organisation, and its innovative website, blog and extensive social media platforms ensure its online influence follows suit; with its in-house experts easily accessible to all. It continually receives outstanding feedback from customers, earning it a high percentage of repeat business, and an excellent reputation as an outstanding conference venue. It is particularly attractive to conference organisers because it is a prestigious yet affordable one-stop-conference-shop. Organisers can sleep easy knowing that all the components for their event are in one place and are managed from concept to completion by one great team.

QEII Centre

For 30 years, the QEII Centre has provided a stage for game changers and innovators, hosting world-famous politicians, inventors, actors, philanthropists and royalty. No matter what the event or who the guests are, customer service is the number one priority and the driving force behind all the centre’s renovations, refurbishments and upgrades.

£12 million has been invested in improvements to meet client needs, resulting in QEII’s highest-ever occupancy levels, increasing numbers of new clients across multiple sectors, high levels of repeat business and exceptionally high levels of customer satisfaction.

QEII has increased customer touchpoints to create more opportunities for feedback, informing decisions on physical changes to the building, services offered and in-house processes.
QEII is committed to offering excellence in catering, going above and beyond what’s expected of a conference venue and being highly flexible to client needs.

People are at the heart of the QEII Centre, and internally recognition is given for the contribution staff make to the business. Successes are celebrated and every team member is given the opportunity to offer input into how the business is run and make a real difference.

Kempton Park Racecourse

Kempton Park is a unique and versatile venue, whose dedicated team consistently proves to be Best in Show when it comes to customer service. No matter the demands and challenges in place, Kempton’s attentive and experienced staff do all they can to make every single conference a success.

Tobacco Dock

At Tobacco Dock, outstanding customer service is a crucial part of our offering. Our dedicated and passionate team works closely with clients from the first moment of enquiry right until the thorough de-brief upon completion of the event. Providing practical help and support at every stage of the planning process, we enjoy getting to know our clients and their events. Each event has its own sales and operations managers which it will retain on subsequent bookings to ensure continuity and to nurture fruitful and trusting working relationships.

From comprehensive DDRs to Full Event Management or Dry Hire and more, we offer a wide range of flexible packages to make sure clients get the most out their event. Our operations team is always on hand during the event to ensure the smooth running of the event, offer advice and forestall any challenges.

We’re proud of our high levels of client retention and feel that the key to providing the best level of customer service lies in our team’s collaborative and dynamic approach.

Warwick Conferences

Warwick Conferences is continually striving to offer added value to clients. In a crowded marketplace clients are no longer just looking for a space for their events, but the delivery of an experience. Their belief is “Anything is possible” based on careful research and considerable expertise.

The company’s people and the service it offers, alongside its willingness to develop spaces that take learning and collaboration to the next level, is what brings clients back year on year. Warwick Conferences’ 73% retention rate is proof that clients receive the experiential experience they desire. In addition to this customers are overwhelmingly positive about their experience at Warwick Conferences, with 48% giving the maximum score when asked “how likely are you to recommend Warwick Conferences to other people on a scale of 0 to 10?”. Overall, 64% of customers gave a score of 9-10.

Warwick Conferences is frequently commended for the first-class service it provides to clients and delegates, as well as the team’s ability to calmly and quickly respond to any last minute changes to events. The dedicated team are committed to going above and beyond in the service they offer, something which is recognised and appreciated by clients.

Ascential – Bett MEA

The Bett Leadership Summit is part of the Bett MEA event and brings together policy-makers, education leaders and industry innovators to discuss the strategic issues and big picture thinking set to transform the education landscape.

At the 2017 event we increased the number of senior leaders at our Leadership Summit, attracting more than 650 delegates. Not only was this a 20% increase YOY, but our ability to attract such quality decision makers is in stark contrast to the nearest competitor who only achieves attendance of around 50 delegates. Other highlights were: achieving the highly prestigious royal patronage, and increasing exhibitors and sponsors by 57% including big names such as Apple who exhibited for the first time.

Clarion Events – Japan Gaming Congress

What makes this event unique is the team behind it. Our energy and passion for what we do is reflected in the high calibre event we were able to produce. The energy onsite was infectious. It was buzzing with conversations and excitement, something not many conferences are able to provide as they have a reputation to be boring, but not the Japan Gaming Congress.

EDANA – OUTLOOK™ 2017

OUTLOOK™ 2017 the Nonwovens Personal Care & Hygiene Products Conference, is a 3-day conference held in Cascais, Portugal 27 – 29 September 2017. It is the must-attend event for all decision-makers in this industry. To achieve a successful edition the team set the following 3 targets; match the conference content with the industry’s reality; grow attendance while keeping the promised quality of interaction and maximize satisfaction of participants.

Empowering the team with new communication techniques, to act consequently and consistently on previous feedback, and be willing to take risks by adopting new features, were the main drivers in boosting satisfaction and resulted in a record attendance and social media engagement of the nonwovens community.

Get an overview of the conference by looking at this video: https://goo.gl/iuyx2L

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Euromoney Trading – Investing in African Mining Indaba

Putting our audience and sector’s needs front and centre for 2018, the Mining Indaba team completely overhauled a tired looking brand to breathe new life into the event for its 24th edition.

The team’s aim was to take Mining Indaba back to a fully focused mining investment event, thus driving investment into the African continent. By introducing areas for emerging mining companies, alongside increasing investor attendance by 22% and mining company attendance by 47% year on year, then the team can definitively say that they achieved this goal.

Overcoming the external challenge Cape Town’s water crisis the team delivered an event that changed industry perceptions for the better, with NPS scores increasing from -25 to +29 in the year. This coupled with a 14% increase in overall attendance shows the extent of the 2018 edition’s success.

Festival of Media – Festival of Media LatAm 2017

In 2016, the nightmare situation for any event organiser became a reality when we had to cancel the Festival of Media LatAm at very short notice due to the path of Hurricane Mathew and the fact that the weather system was on course to hit Miami directly. In the interest of safety for everyone involved, we made the hard decision not to proceed with the event.

So in 2017, we knew we had a tough task ahead of us in winning back our attendees and sponsors. How do you bounce back from a natural disaster? This is the story of how we created something totally unique for our stakeholders and completely revolutionised the format of the event to make it more experiential, engaging, educational and inspirational to our delegates.

Global Trade Review (GTR) – GTR Asia Trade & Treasury Week 2017

GTR Asia Trade & Treasury Week was designed to be the world’s number one annual gathering for companies and individuals involved in the international trade and treasury space in Asia. This annual event in Singapore has taken place since 2009, bringing together members of the international trade community from all over the globe, including exporting and importing companies, domestic and international banks, insurers, lawyers, government bodies, industry associations, consultants and more. They attend to hear the latest trends and angles on trade finance markets, sectors and risks in Asia, as well as to experience unrivalled networking opportunities.

In just a few years, this event has grown from a small gathering of 140 people, to the largest trade finance conference anywhere in the world, through support from the industry’s leading institutions and market bodies. It is an annual highlight for the industry, with delegates flying into Singapore from all over the globe to attend.

Organised by Global Trade Review (GTR) – Established in 2002, GTR is the world’s leading news source, publisher and event organiser for the global trade, commodity and export finance markets, with offices in London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Green Power – MIREC Week 2017

It is rare to be able to build a product slowly, organically matching the growth of a nascent industry and to maintain that position, as the industry grows up the steep part of the S curve of adoption. I believe we have not only fully maximised the commercial opportunity at every stage but have also provided a vital function to a growing market. I and many other “MIREC Fans” believe the event has helped accelerate the uptake of renewables in Mexico, spread best practice, bring in greater foreign direct investment and ultimately benefit the country through lower prices.

MIREC WEEK has become Green Power’s flagship event, generating a significant proportion of revenue for a small business like ours. We have done this with a smart, small team of bright, young things speaking a different language and based 9,000km away.

Terrapinn Holdings – World Vaccine Congress Washington 2018

The 2018 World Vaccine Congress Washington has consolidated its standing as the go to vaccines meeting globally, in content, speakers, attendees and networking opportunities.

The successful new format has allowed for whole-sector topics to be discussed, giving an opportunity for people to find out more in their specific area of research and their job-function. By running parallel niche conferences over the congress, it increased the relevance of the whole event for everyone who attended.

The impact of this has been to increase the quality of the speaker line-up and those who signed up to attend, as the content truly moved forward, covering the important blue-sky keynotes whilst also providing personalised content for every attendee.

We added to the format with new pre-congress workshops and individual conferences in Vaccine Safety, Vaccine Supply & Logistics, Cancer Immunotherapy, Immune Profiling, Influenza & Respiratory Vaccines, Emerging & Re-emerging Diseases, Clinical Trials, Vaccine Partnerships, Bioprocess & Manufacturing and Veterinary Vaccines.

Overall we brought an event that included over 1000 senior industry executives, 250 speakers, 300+ companies, 70, exhibitors, 10 dedicated conferences, 4 workshops and an Awards Dinner, enabling the event to post record attendee numbers, revenue and commercial partners.

Association of MBAs (AMBA) – AMBA Global Conference 2017

In 2017 The Association of MBAs (AMBA) celebrated its 50th Anniversary and wanted its flagship event to have the strongest programme in its history, attract more delegates than ever before and meet with its most challenging commercial targets for both delegate revenue and sponsorship.

The theme of our anniversary was ‘views from the top’, so we brought top-class speakers – including Peter Thomson, President, UN General Assembly, and Indra Nooyi, CEO, PepsiCo – to present to the delegation in the JW Marriott Marquis, Dubai, the tallest hotel on the planet.

We entertained delegates in venues including the worlds tallest building the Burj Khalifa and the opulent dining room in Burj Al Arab – not to mention tents in the Arabian Desert.

With no outsourced support and with only an internal events team of three people and marketing team of two, we managed the event completely in-house. Through an innovative research, sales and communications strategy we attracting more delegates, sponsors, press and social media interest and high-profile speakers than ever before in our 50-year history.

Campden Wealth – Leading Ladies of Switzerland

A tri-collaboration between Campden Research, Campden Conferences and Julius Baer.
A topical and enlightening gathering of a very select audience focused on women of wealth in Switzerland. Aimed to bring to life a quantitative study of UHNW family matriarchs/female next gen multi-generational family members as well as female UHNW entrepreneurs and private investors. This event was designed with the target market in mind (predominantly, but not exclusively female wealth holders) – we are inclusive and we very much do ‘family’ gatherings. It was intended to be educational, informative, instructive and inspiring – within a timeframe to suit the audience. Based on the principal of ‘like attracting like’ we ensured our speaker panel reflected the many roles women of wealth play: entrepreneur, business executive, family member, investor, philanthropist. It was a very positive gathering of our community members, some well-known to us, others re-engaging via the theme and agenda of the event. The event met all key objectives and was a memorable occasion with many there requesting it bit an annual fixture.

Global Business Club (GBC) – Downstream Caspian and Central Asia 2017

Our flagship Downstream Caspian & Central Asia conference is the region’s number one event of such scale and geographical coverage with the high-level strategic agenda that includes all aspects of refining and petrochemical industry and provides in-depth analysis of market dynamics, overview of major mega-projects and latest technologies in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

The conference originated as a simple but powerful idea: connect a remarkably hospitable and yet somewhat secretive region together in one place. Every year we spend months of intense hard work in preparation, many late nights and sometimes a roller coaster of emotions – all to make sure that our attendees get business – and sometimes even life-changing experience at this conference.

Infopro Digital – OpRisk North America

OpRisk North America is the largest and longest running conference for Operational Risk professionals in the financial services industry. It has grown consistently year on year both in terms of content, attendees, revenue and profit. 2017 exceeded all expectations thanks to collaboration between producer, editors and a senior level practitioner advisory board, the execution of a carefully crafted sponsorship strategy and enhancement of the delegate conference experience.

IR Magazine – IR Magazine Global Forum

The IR Magazine Forum & Awards – Global is an international and independent event that brings together IR professionals from around the world to network with the investment community, learn best practice from successful heads of IR and promote excellence.

MA Exhibitions – Drug Delivery and Formulation Summit 2017

The growth of biopharma, patient compliance issues and ever increasing regulatory requirements encourage companies to adopt a drug delivery mindset from discovery through to production.

Every year we see innovation and breakthroughs at all levels of drug and formulation development. From big pharma, through the smaller biotechnology companies all the way to university research teams and spin outs.

The DDF Summit brings the most interesting studies and exciting technologies to you.

Oil & Gas Council, Clarion Events – MSGBC Basin Summit & Exhibition

In 2014 Offshore West Africa became one of the hottest exploration regions in the world. The excitement around the MSGBC basin led to a collaboration between the National Oil Company of Senegal, Petrosen, along with The Ministry of Energy and the Oil & Gas Council to host what became become the most successful regional show in our history. A runaway first year set high expectations for 2017 but these were surpassed on every level with the final number a whopping 42% increase against the prior year and the original 2017 budget. In order to achieve this result the team worked tirelessly to ensure NOC and Ministry presence from all relevant countries, delivered a local and international SPEX campaign, launched a Local Content workshop add on, trialled a successful whatsapp marketing campaign, formed winning partnerships with media and trade bodies and experimented with new onsite technologies. The show ran with a 33% increase in the number of sponsors, a 39% increase in the number of delegates and a final NPS score of 80.

The Science and Information (SAI) Organization Limited – Future Technologies Conference 2017

Future Technologies Conference 2017 brought together some of the most devoted minds from academia and industry to share their ideas and showcase achievements. This conference was a forum for technology researchers to promote and defend their work based on its merits. The conference was well attended by 200+ delegates coming from 51 countries.

The two days conference comprised of 6 keynote talks by esteemed speakers, 17 poster presentations, 5 project demonstrations and 138 paper presentations.

Keynote speakers were
– John Martinis – Google, California, United States
– Peter Mueller – IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
– James Hendler – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, United States
– Ann Cavoukian – Former Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada
– Kevin Leyton-Brown – The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

C21Media – Content London

You know you’re doing something right when an award-winning conference venue cites you as “the best event we’ve worked on in recent years”.

Kings Place’s business development director was quoted in January saying: “[Content London 2017] embraced all that the venue had to offer and their event impacted every department within the venue… The whole venue was transformed with branding, production and furniture. It was an absolute joy to work with such open-minded and creative clients”.

Content London has grown from a 200-person gathering to a market-leading £1m+ conference and networking event for the entertainment industry. Attracting more than 1,500 key players from the global content business and increasing revenue by 823% in the five years since launch.

Its success demonstrates how to extend a market-leading publishing brand into a market-leading conference business, exploiting the converged offering to deliver an ‘unfair advantage’ that standalone events struggle to compete with.

Content London 2017 was a hit, selling out six weeks before the event and showing year-on-year growth of 135% in delegate revenue and 43% in sponsorship revenue, going 18% over target.

It transformed parent company C21Media’s business, showing how conferences can be integrated into publishing businesses with dramatic effect.

Fitz All Media – VET Festival

VET Festival was launched 3 years ago in 2015 to truly break the mould of CPD veterinary conferences and is the UK’s only outdoor, festival style CPD conference for vets, nurses and veterinary specialists.

The idea was conceived and since developed by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, who wanted to launch a conference that would inspire, reinvigorate and enthuse vet practitioners and that was different to the conference offerings already in existence. VET Festival offers delegates the chance to celebrate, learn and have fun in a fresh, outdoor environment – think music festival with CPD lecture tents and that was VET Festival’s vision.

Since its launch in 2015, the two day event has grown in size, stature and excitement. VET Festival 2017 attracted a 102% increase in delegate revenues along with 20% in stand and sponsorship revenues, including a headline partner who actively worked with us to both market the event – 98% of delegates would attend VET Festival 2018 and 100% of delegates would recommend VET Festival to a colleague.

Haymarket Media Group – CIPD Annual Conference & Exhibition 2017 – Embracing the New World of Work

The CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE) is the CIPD’s flagship event and largest gathering of HR and learning professionals in the UK It brings together more than 4000 people professionals to share insights and solutions on issues facing the profession and the wider world of work. The 70th anniversary of the event was held on 8-9 November 2017 in Manchester, and was delivered by Haymarket Media Group following a strategic partnership between CIPD and Haymarket.

The event theme was ‘Embracing the New World of Work’, focusing on the major shifts affecting organisations, the people profession, and the world of work at large. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the event, Baroness Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of Lastminute com, delivered an inspiring opening keynote on technology and digital inclusion – and Conductor Gernot Schulz, together with a 40-strong Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra, delivered a spectacular orchestral experience as a closing keynote, demonstrating the parallels between leading teams and conducting musicians.

With 32 conference sessions and +60 conference speakers, +200 exhibitors, 60 free showcases, +1600 conference delegates and +2500 exhibition visitors – the 70th edition of ACE was the most successful event to date.v

KNect365, part of Informa plc – London Tech Week

London Tech Week is a mega city wide festival of tech events across the city of London taking place in June showcasing and celebrating the best of tech whilst providing networking business, social learning and business opportunities. KNect365 acquired the rights to London Tech Week for the 2017 edition revamping the brand identity, website and curated a number of key anchor events. As a result, the festival increased its number of attendees by 19% and delivered a substantial increase in revenue. The festival also achieved an NPS score of +22.4 – far higher than the norm. London Tech Week reaffirms London’s role as a leading global tech capital.

Ocean Media Group – HOMES 2017

HOMES is the premier event experience for those working at a high level in strategic asset management, residential development and procurement solutions in the affordable housing sector.

For over 6 years, our mission has been to help housing providers build and manage quality homes, more efficiently and more effectively. This is through a combination of an innovative learning programme, exhibition and invaluable networking experiences that inform, innovate and bring the perfect mix of housing providers and suppliers together to shape business strategy.

Led by a vibrant mix of trail-blazing peers, inspirational thought leaders and out of sector innovators, HOMES offers housing professionals the most comprehensive and engaging free learning programme of any event, focusing on real-world, practical solutions you can implement straight away.

Plus with over 20 hours of networking opportunities on offer and 150+ leading housing suppliers in attendance, HOMES is a fantastic opportunity to catch up with your contacts, meet suppliers and build new business relationships.

Taking place in London and attracting 451 housing providers at a senior level, the event is free to attend, so there is no better way to spend two days out of the office in order to move your organisation forward.

Redactive – RCM Annual Conference and Exhibition

The multi-award-winning RCM Annual Conference and Exhibition took place on 31 October to 1 November 2017 at Manchester Central. For the first time ever, the 2017 event was completely free to attend for delegates. The conference featured the usual high-quality conference programme designed to capture the imagination of midwives and the press. Speakers included Call the Midwife star Stephen McGann and Hana Pauls from One Born Every Minute, in addition to educational sessions from midwives on everything from trauma treatment to leadership. The event exceeded all expectations, with 3,300 delegate registrations within 72 hours of launching the event for registrations. We took a further 1,000 registration requests from individuals who were put on a waiting list.

WONDER London – Google Cloud Next 2017

Google Cloud NEXT 17 was a six-stage Europe-wide event series and the largest Google Cloud event in Europe to date. It kicked off at ExCel London on 3-4 May 2017 across five halls (20,000 m²). WONDER London brought the Google brand to life for 4,500+ delegates comprised of tech and IT developers and decision-makers, plus wider tech leaders. The interactive conference enabled delegates to choose from 50+ hours of content and 85+ speakers. Keynote speeches in the main plenary session were followed by delegates moving freely between 60 breakout sessions featuring live demos of cutting-edge tech. The floor plan itself and all related design focused on taking the delegates on a journey, ensuring they were able to make the most of everything the event had to offer. An interactive playground “Partner Pavilion” featured demo pods from 26 key brand partners; while business owners who already use Google Cloud Platform were present to advise delegates and show the tech in action. WONDER developed a design language to be used as creative wallpaper across the entire series that could be easily realised in both physical and graphical form, ensuring the identity remained consistent across all locations.

BRANDFUEL – Google Zeitgeist

For the last twelve years, BrandFuel have produced Zeitgeist, a Google event or ‘partner forum’ that celebrates the spirit of our times and the future of innovation. Held at The Grove, it welcomes a highly exclusive guestlist – 243 global leaders, royalty, Oscar-winners, human rights ambassadors, politicians, philosophers, scientists and musicians. The gathering are privy to talks from the likes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir David Attenborough, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Google’s co-founder and Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Eric Schmidt. With an absence of corporate commercialism, this two day, invitation-only annual conference is the scene of discussion across the fields of politics, economics, culture and technology, and is one of Google’s most prominent global events. Each year, Zeitgeist is held at The Grove hotel – part of our core objective is to bring the space to life in a way that will feel different to repeat delegates and make for an exhilarating conference experience. The relationship and trust that Google places in BrandFuel has allowed the conference to exceed client and delegate expectations year on year. BrandFuel stretch themselves to challenge, innovate and deliver new creative executions within the same venue whilst continuing to deliver a unique and personable experience.

Campden Wealth – 19th European Family Office Conference

The European Family Office Conference has been Campden Wealth’s flagship European conference for the last 19 years. Originally devised as a means of educating families and individuals of wealth as to the “next steps” after realising a liquidity event, over the last 19 years the conference has developed to address the most pressing and challenging issues faced by the family office and UHNW community today.

In keeping with the very essence of the conference – being a highly private, closed-door gathering of global wealth holders – the event has been shaped by the attendees and participants. In 2017 it was expanded from a 2 day conference to 4 days of activity featuring a highly tailored conference programme delivering innovative interactive session formats placing the audience at the very heart of the discussion shaping their own learnings and networking it provided.

The 2017 conference achieved a record increase in delegate revenue from 2016, as well as increased sponsorship and the best feedback scores ever achieved on this event and was the perfect way to set-up our the 20th anniversary year in 2018.

Contentive – HRD Summit

The HRD Summit 2018, sought to connect HR leaders with suppliers who can help them succeed in their roles. For delegates, this meant creating an environment in which a community of HR leaders could create an organisation that is fit for the future, by engineering higher level learning and collaboration experiences, and connecting them with innovative suppliers who could help deliver in this new world. This was achieved by delivering unique and innovative session such as our bespoke “Co-Labs” and Escape Rooms, generated through rigorous research methods.

For sponsors, this meant further enhancing the methods of connecting to our community, providing trusted forms of engagement that would provide measurable ROI. We did this by developing and enhancing inventory to facilitate transaction conversations and meaningful connections with our buyers.

The result was was one of our most successful to-date. Against a target of 800 delegates for 2018 the HRD Summit delivered 963 delegates, and 1351 total attendees. We also overachieved on our financial targets, ending at 15.2% over budget with a dramatic 51.1% increase in revenue YOY.

Faversham House – edie Sustainability Leaders Forum 2018

Throughout the Sustainability Leaders Forum campaign the marketing, sales and edie’s content teams worked hand in hand to transform a one-day event into a two-day interactive, immersive and vibrant conference, with a massive increase in both sales and delegate revenue, exceeding revenue targets. The event moved beyond a ‘talking shop’ that would inspire our audience to take action withiin and beyond their organisations.

We know our audience to be highly energised and keen to participate, share experiences and learn, so creating an event which delivered on this was key to our success. We received a 4.21 score out of 5 against a 4.0 target, representing a strong performance with a vocal and seasoned conference audience.

Global Trade Review (GTR) – UK Trade & Export Finance Conference 2017

GTR’s UK Trade & Export Finance Conference 2017 was first held in 2013, with the plan to bring British companies of all sizes (multinationals, mid-cap and SMEs) and a wide range of financial service providers together to discuss how best to increase UK export volumes in light of the various economic challenges faced, from stifling austerity measures to the ongoing problems in the Eurozone region. This event has quickly grown into the number one trade and export finance event in the UK, bringing together hundreds of leaders in international trade and providing the nation with a crucial forum to discuss UK trade – especially important in today’s climate With discussions ongoing as to the UK’s trade relationship with the EU, identifying new export markets is a key task for UK corporates seeking to broaden their export horizons. As such, this is an annual highlight for domestic exporters, financiers and trade specialists, a place where fresh perspectives are gained and new business relationships formed. Organised by Global Trade Review (GTR) – Established in 2002, GTR is the world’s leading news source, publisher and event organiser for the global trade, commodity and export finance markets, with offices in London & Singapore.

Hampton Medical – Intensive Care Society

Hampton Medical has worked in partnership with the Intensive Care Society since 2016 to modernise, innovate and drive forward the Society’s State of the Art (SOA) conference, delivering the UK’s foremost critical care meeting for emerging technologies and essential clinical updates.

Held at the ACC in Liverpool, SOA 2017 represented first time the event had been held outside of London and was the most successful event in the Society’s history, with record delegate numbers, representing 25 countries.
Consulting with industry partners was central to their engagement with the event, generating increased revenue to invest into the delegate experience.

Putting in place an effective marketing campaign was also crucial to driving awareness and delegate numbers. As well as a targeted email campaign and social media strategy, poster notifications were placed throughout intensive care units to raise awareness amongst the critical care community.

The enhanced delegate experience, rich scientific programme, innovations and technologies created an engaging and seamless delegate experience, resulting in overwhelmingly positive feedback. The exhibition target was almost doubled and over 50% of exhibitors re-booked for SOA2018 during the event.

Most importantly, the conference generated a surplus beyond expectations for the Society to invest in its education and charitable work.

Health Service Journal (HSJ) part of Wilmington Healthcare – HSJ Patient Safety Congress 2017

Patient Safety Congress the UK’s best regarded and best-known safety event. It is produced by Health Service Journal (HSJ), part of Wilmington Healthcare. The Congress has built up this reputation over a decade by showcasing content that is evidence based, challenging and inspirational. The high-quality programme is developed in partnership with patient safety experts, and draws together real-life patient stories, innovative international perspectives and practical, applicable case studies from front-line practitioners who are doing it themselves. Congress attracts an average of 1000 attendees every year. Here’s why so many people prioritize their attendance at the event:

To take away tangible solutions they can adopt in their organization: In 2017, 84% of people came away with an actionable idea they could implement from the event
To hear national updates from senior NHS leaders and understand how the national picture is affecting their work on the frontline
For genuine patient involvement: Every session has input from a patient speaker with unique insight to share. This ensures the patient voice is at the heart of the event
To be inspired by a fabulous range of relevant international case studies and examples from other industries
Find out more at https://patientsafetycongress.co.uk

Marketforce – Insurance Innovators: Future of General Insurance 2017

The Future of General Insurance conference had been running on an annual basis for 17 years. It was a successful event but hadn’t grown for a number of years and performed inconsistently both in sponsorship and delegate numbers. We undertook a bold relaunch, with plenty of risks, and set ourselves some very ambitious targets to refresh and renew the event.

We created a new brand for our insurance portfolio that built on our legacy but focused on the exciting new world of technology threatening to disrupt the industry. The new brand, ‘Insurance Innovators,’ was born. This supported a new website, dynamic event format, modern marketing campaign and more innovative partnering opportunities.

Our long-term aim is to make this the largest and best insurance event in Europe. It was crucial to make substantial progress in the relaunch year and start to transition the event from UK centric to European wide.

Results:

Growth target	Actual growth
Attendee number 80%	81%
European attendance 50%	63%
Total revenue 50%	71%
Delegate revenue 30%	43%
Sponsorship revenue 75%	108%
Brochure downloads 200%	297%
Website traffic 25%	69%
Website traffic from digital ads 100%	222%