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Exhibit 3Sixty Launches Grid Live
Exhibition main contractor, Exhibit 3Sixty, has introduced ‘Grid Live’, a new web-based stand electrics tracking tool.
Center Parcs Launches Activity Hubs
Center Parcs Conferences and Events has opened three new interactive activity centres for corporate bookings at Sherwood Forest and Woburn Forest, to meet rising demand for tech-enabled team building experiences.
What Event Planners Might Not Know About Venue Directory
How much do you know about Venue Directory? Jason Gutteridge, Director of Sales & Operations explains how the platform is helping thousands of event professionals with their sourcing needs.
ESSA Awards 2025 Opens For Entries With Two New Categories
The ESSA Awards are now open for 2025, with 16 individual categories, with new Best Member Collaboration and Best Collaboration with an Organiser awards.
How WhatsApp Tribes Created A Thriving Conference Community
Sina Bünte, Event Strategist at DigitalMind Events, created an engaged and thriving community for the ISPIM Innovation Conference in Bergen, by creating Whatsapp Tribes. She explains how it was done.
How Does Facebook Actually Work In 2025?
If you’re an event planner looking to bring Facebook into your marketing campaigns, you may have asked yourself, does anyone still use it?
What Event Planners Might Not Know About Venue Directory
How much do you know about Venue Directory? Jason Gutteridge, Director of Sales & Operations explains how the platform is helping thousands of event professionals with their sourcing needs.
ESSA Awards 2025 Opens For Entries With Two New Categories
The ESSA Awards are now open for 2025, with 16 individual categories, with new Best Member Collaboration and Best Collaboration with an Organiser awards.
This Week In Events: Event Apps, July’s Job Ads & The Bias In AI
This edition of This Week In Events, we discuss the low adoption rate of event apps, July’s increase in event manager job ads and how biased AI seems to be.
Serving Under Strain: The Growing Financial Toll on UK Hospitality
Morgan Keating, specialist relationship manager at Allica Bank, discusses the challenges hospitality is currently facing, such as rising costs and interest rates.
How Does Facebook Actually Work In 2025?
If you’re an event planner looking to bring Facebook into your marketing campaigns, you may have asked yourself, does anyone still use it?
beam and MIA unite for 2025 ESG Summit to champion responsible business in events
beam and the MIA (Meetings Industry Association) have announced the ESG Summit 2025, an unprecedented collaborative event between the two leading industry associations, on 15 September 2025 at Warwick Conferences.
CHS Birmingham 2025 Welcomes a Fresh Wave of UK Event Talent
CHS Birmingham returns to the ICC Birmingham this autumn, with organisers once again promising to showcase some of the most exciting and creative names in the UK events industry.
UKEVENTS welcomes Government’s Industrial Strategy and focus on Creative Sector
UKEVENTS welcomes the publication of the UK Government’s refreshed Industrial Strategy and accompanying Sector Plans, which place the creative industries at the heart of national growth ambitions. Recognising the creative industries as one of eight priority sectors, the Government’s plans set out a clear commitment to driving innovation, exports, and skills development across the UK’s dynamic creative economy.
Ampetronic names speakers for Expo event
Japan – Ampetronic, provider of hearing loop systems, has announced the speakers who will present at Audio Technology for the Future, a one-day event Ampetronic is hosting on 21 August 2025 in the Hospitality Suite in the UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka.
The Week in Light & Sound
Back Home – The world premiere of a musical about Anne Boleyn is being performed at her childhood home. Henry VIII’s second wife, who was beheaded in 1536, grew up at Hever Castle in Kent. Anne Boleyn: The Musical is being staged at a specially constructed 1,800-seat outdoor auditorium on the lawn outside the castle until 30 August. A production spokesperson said: “The castle itself forms a key part of the set, heightening the sense of authenticity and theatrical grandeur.”
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