AEO News

This year’s AEO Forums delivered a holistic mix of intellectual stimulation, social networking, physical health and emotional wellbeing to over 310 industry professionals spanning marketing, operations and sales. Held at BDC London, the AEO Forums brought together 94 businesses from across the events industry.

The Association of Event Organisers (AEO) is pleased to announce the 2019 partnership renewal with leading AV supplier, Aztec Events.

The agreement will continue to deliver Aztec’s award-winning AV services at AEO Events, which includes the upcoming AEO Forums taking place on the 25 January 2019 at the Business Design Centre, the AEO Excellence Awards, taking place on the 14 June 2019 at Grosvenor House, the AEO Conference, taking place in Windsor on the 5th and 6th September and the FaceTime Exhibitor Masterclasses.

This year’s AEO Excellence Awards takes place on the 14th June 2019, at Grosvenor House, Park Lane London.

The event, which recognises and celebrates achievements from event organisers, venues and suppliers throughout the industry, is pleased to reveal four new categories, reflecting the growing number of organisers operating internationally.

AEO is delighted to announce award-winning event registration company, Circdata as the official registration partner for 2019. 

The partnership will include registration for the upcoming AEO Forums, taking place on the 25 January 2019 at the Business Design Centre, the AEO Excellence Awards, taking place on the 14 June 2019 at Grosvenor House, the AEO Conference, taking place in Windsor on the 5th and 6th September and the FaceTime Exhibitor Masterclasses.

Hiscox, leaders in specialist insurance, has renewed its partnership with the Association of Event Organisers (AEO) for the 12th consecutive year.

AEO Global Events Study results demonstrate a 36% increase in Overseas Turnover

The Association of Event Organisers has launched its annual Global Events Study, sponsored by GES, which tracks international market trends of UK organisers.

The results for the 2017/18 period show a staggering like-for-like increase in overseas turnover of 36% with £2.1bn generated by those UK businesses that took part in the research project. According to the latest ONS figures*, this places the UK events industry in the top ten UK service exports.

The AEO Forums, which will take place at BDC London on Friday 25th January, has now launched.

The programme kicks off with a keynote from Business Leader, Karen Blackett, OBE. Karen is Chairwoman of MediaCom and appeared in the Woman's Hour Power List of Top 10 Influencers.

The AEO Talent Working Group is launching a free online training programme for sales, marketing and ops professionals within AEO membership. The series of webinars starts from the 5th October 2018 and will initially run until 15th February 2019.

The AEO Conference returned to Brighton on 6-7 September, covering the theme; ‘Technology – Artificial or Reality?’

The Grand Hotel in Brighton hosted 231 attendees, an overall increase in delegates of 13% and 31% more organisers than 2017.

The two-day conference was chaired by leading technology journalist and presenter, Georgie Barrat and delivered sessions that focussed on how technology can transform events for both events’ professionals and their customers.

The AEO Council has officially elected Austen Hawkins, managing director of f2f events, as the next Chair of the Association of Event Organisers. The election, which took place at the AEO Council meeting held on 5th September in Brighton, also sees Darren Johnson, chief executive officer of Reed Exhibitions UK, become Vice Chair. Former Chair Damion Angus will now assume the role of Past Chair for the forthcoming year.

 

Three new members, Ruth Carter from Telegraph Events, Ed Tranter from MA Exhibitions and Sarah Beall from Forum Events, have been elected to join the AEO Council. The election took place at this year’s AGM which was held in Brighton on Wednesday 5th September.

"World's Greenest Venue" continues to gather support and ECAAG calls on Mayor Khan to intervene in the Earl's Court West Kensington opportunity area.