Conference Design Archives

Looking Back & Ahead with the CTICC

25th March 2021

Running convention centres means creating unique experiences. To do so successfully, a culture of learning and exploration is a must have, as well as a commitment to agility and sustainability. This is precisely what Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) showcased over the last few months.

ICC Sydney Unveils The Virus Challenges

11th March 2021

ICC Sydney CEO, Geoff Donaghy, talks to Boardroom about the challenges, the opportunities and the future of the Centre.

An OASIS For Business Events

11th March 2021

No stranger to innovation, the Palais des congrès de Montréal manages to stay one step ahead of the game with imaginative projects such as the newly acquired OASIS immersion.

Your Health as a Priority

10th March 2021

Living up to the reputation of a city that offers top expertise and services for international business, Geneva has managed to stand high in everyone’s preference as a destination exactly because it can offer what our sector needs at the moment, safe personal contact.

Experience The Future Conference

4th March 2021

Is the world, and our industry in particular, looking in the right direction for these promising changes that everyone is talking about? Have conference destinations decrypted what delegates will be craving for once we are let out of our cages, what it takes to make travelling around the globe worthwhile again?

Meeting Postcards from Japan

17th February 2021

As you would expect, the Japan Convention Bureau, under the umbrella of the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), went all online for their yearly event targeted at meeting planners, Meet Japan. On this occasion, Boardroom notably learned all about the 18th World Congress on Lung Cancer (WCLC) which took place in October 2017 in Yokohama and took a virtual stroll in Osaka.

A Global Reset in Singapore

9th February 2021

As the business events industry prepares for gradual recovery, some destinations move faster than others. Singapore, which has been known for its forward-looking and strategic positioning for some years now, seems to be ahead of the game.

A TV Show Featuring Winds of Change

8th January 2021

Associations can't even start counting all the webinars they have had to follow in the past year. Several conferences tried keeping the same format moving hastily to an online equivalent in the face of a cancellation, but not always successfully. WindEurope decided to try their luck using an alternative model.

Digital vs Live Events: Basel Shares Its Findings

9th December 2020

Since the beginning of the crisis, Messe Basel has managed to hold quite a number of virtual and hybrid events and is now able to share the findings of this experience.

Punching Above its Weight… And Rightly So

3rd December 2020

In October, a very special invitation arrived in our email inbox: the Slovenian Convention Bureau, together with Ljubljana Convention Bureau – a part of Ljubljana Tourism – was hosting a famil designed to show that the city was open to meetings of all kinds and formats – a very special message that was written on the masks that we, of course, had to wear at all times…

An Event With A Purpose – MTL Reunion

19th November 2020

Is your association all caught up with everything technology has to offer for your next meeting? Are you perhaps the kind of association that pays more attention in what a destination itself has to offer, even at times of the pandemic?

Driving the Discussion on the Future of Health

18th November 2020

In October, the 16th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH2020)—initially planned to take place in Rome—went virtual for a five-day event focusing around a key theme crucial to tackling the current pandemic: collaborating in the global public health community.