Widely regarded as 'The Oscars' of the global exhibition industry, the EN Awards return in 2025! The EN Awards is a one-night celebration; highlighting and embodying the spirit and talent within our tightly knit organiser community.
Designed to unlock the potential and drive growth within the UK’s business events economy, the programme’s speakers and contributors include Shaun Davies MP Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events; Dame Caroline Dinenage DBE MP Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee; and columnist and politician Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE who will be giving delegates his view on the current political and economic landscape.
We are excited and honoured to announce the inaugural Fast Forward15 Mentoring Awards. This exclusive celebration aims to showcase exceptional mentors, mentees, corporates, agency and suppliers that have had a profound impact on the growth and development of talent within the events and hospitality sector. These awards are open to all genders, and all organisations across the sector, including in-house corporate event teams. Scheduled for 24th April 2025, this first-of-its-kind awards ceremony will honour outstanding contributions to mentoring. The Fast Forward15 Mentoring Awards will feature a three-course dinner, a prestigious awards ceremony, and ample networking opportunities.
The Festival of Learning is ABPCO’s educational flagship event providing a key moment for the association events community to come together to network, share and most importantly to learn. Now in its fourth year, the festival will be taking place in person on Tuesday 29 April 2025 at the Eastside Rooms in Birmingham. As well as a full day of learning, the event includes a networking supper and the new event innovation hub the evening prior (see the schedule page for more details). We’re expecting over 150 event professionals and will be exploring the theme – Connect, Collaborate and Challenge.
Production Futures creates opportunities for young people to learn, train, network and develop careers in production across all aspects of live events, film, music, festivals, touring, brand activation, theatre, TV, broadcast and AV installation.
Thu 1st May – ‘Setting up Shop’- sole trader, ltd company, budgeting, tax to savings & investments
CELEBRATING ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY, AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT! PLASA Focus Leeds returns May 2025, bringing together the latest innovations, and the brightest minds in live events, installation, and entertainment technology.
Camera’s rolling in 3, 2, 1! Setting the stage for the titans of TV, film, and technological marvels, let your content creation visions flourish in a world of broadcasting innovation at MPTS. Reignite your creativity and curiosity with hundreds of renowned speakers delivering adrenaline-pumping behind-the-scenes tales and game-changing tips in pre-production, production, post, technology, audio and virtual production.
Thu 15th May – ‘Staying out of Trouble’ – what insurances should you have, to managing debt and money worries
The Event Technology Forum is a focused event that brings those working in the Event and Technology Industry together with leading solution providers, for focused one-to-one meetings.
IMEX Frankfurt is where the global meetings, events and incentive travel industry comes together annually for the largest trade show of its kind in Europe. Where 3,800-plus global meeting planners connect with 2,900 suppliers from across the world, building powerful working relationships—to create better events, meetings and experiences. This is where you can walk through the world in a day, immerse yourself in the latest industry developments and ideas, and find yourself at the heart of the global business events community.
Wed 28th May – ‘Financial Wellbeing – the new Rock n Roll’ – the legal stuff - protecting yourself and how to cultivate a better approach to money.
The EPA 2025 Awards Night will again be held at the beautiful central London art deco headquarters of RIBA at 66 Portland Place, on Thursday 29th May 2025. Drinks and delicious canapes and bowl food will accompany a display of all the short-listed images, amounting to well over 100 prints. Short-listed photographers enjoy a 50% discount on tickets for their guests. A fun and fast-paced awards ceremony is held RIBA’s 280-seater Jarvis Hall. Every category winner is invited on stage to receive a handsome personalised engraved trophy, while the overall winner also receives a cheque for £1,000.
The ABTT Theatre Show will once again taking place at the stunning Alexandra Palace on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th June. The ABTT Theatre Show 2025 is the exhibition where the broadest collection of specialist suppliers supporting live performance technology, production and education gather to connect with others in the world of theatre, performance, events, festivals, music and more.
The Meetings Show is the UK's leading exhibition for the events, meetings, and incentives community. Proudly brought to you by Northstar Meetings Group, a name synonymous with excellence in the MICE industry, we've been bringing together thousands of event professionals since our launch in 2013. It's an event all about connections - providing a platform for global event suppliers to meet face-to-face with up to 1500 pre-qualified meeting and event planners and showcase their products and services.
Have you delivered a standout conference or incentive in the past year? Or has your team smashed it and deserve to win a coveted agency or supplier of the year award? There’s no better way to reward your successes than with a micebook Award win. But you’ve got to be in it to win it! So, if you’ve not yet entered – get working on your submissions now and enter before 25 April. There are categories to suit everyone, from Best Corporate In-house Team and Best DMC to Best Event Tech, Best Industry Newcomer, Best Hotel Brand, Best Global Agency and many more. Check out the full list of categories and enter here.
Following the success of the first two editions in Maastricht and Milan, Women in Exhibitions is delighted to announce the third edition of the Women in Exhibitions World Summit set to take place on 8-9 July 2025 at London Excel. Under the theme “Elevate, Accelerate: Together We Rise,” this year’s summit promises to the most impactful so far, bringing together leaders, visionaries, and change makers.
Backup Tech’s annual summertime day of fun and frivolity, this year renamed The Fabulous Village Fete in celebration of Adam Taylor, aka Adam Fabulous, DJ and long-time supporter of the event, will once again take place at Surrey’s Daytona Sandown Park on Thursday July 10th. With shooting brakes, feather boas, picnic blankets, cake creations and voluminous veg to the fore, the industry is invited to enjoy the event’s perennial favourites, including Best Dresses Fete’r, the hugely popular ‘Bake Off’ and ‘Veg Off’, The Straw Stage for live entertainment and workshops, ‘Peasant’ laser clay Shooting, the Food and Craft Fest stalls and some new additions, to be announced later in the build-up to the day.
Found is an independent music festival with a carefully curated blend of the best Americana, folk, roots, blues and beyond. It’s got music at its heart but also a packed programme of comedy, dance, talks, workshops, wellness, family activities and more.
The Association of Event Organisers (AEO) is pleased to bring you the annual AEO Conference. This event brings together key players within the events industry, offering networking, insight and motivation. With an outstanding speaker line-up delivering inspirational, dynamic and thought-provoking content, the AEO Conference 2025 is fantastic platform from which to debate, learn and share ideas with your peers, which can help shape your organisation and the industry.
The event industry’s reliance on data to help it plan for the future, increase its resilience, manage risk and justify investment decisions, is growing year on year.
The engagement and access that The Power of Events (UK) has across all 7 sectors of the industry, enables data gathering and in-depth research projects to be delivered confidently and consistently. This will be primarily facilitated through the new insight app to be launched on 28th Sep 2023.
By bringing the industry and university partners together, research projects will be designed to deliver real benefits to the industry in terms of trend analysis, insights and performance improvements.
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