Conference Design

New Zealand gave The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) Conference 2019, ‘Decolonizing animals’, an original spin when it hosted the event in Christchurch, July 1-4, 2019.

Thanks to an attractive meetings infrastructure and one of the most innovative networks in ICT, Zurich continues to lure association events. The Swiss city is known as a global leader in many fields—especially information technology and sustainability—in addition to being one of the top in terms of life quality.

The rise of predatory conferences jeopardises the future of legitimate research events. But could conference IDs be the solution?

The 27th International Input-Output Association Conference (IIOA) draw to a close at the University of Strathclyde’s Technology and Innovation Centre last week in Glasgow.

Hosted by the Flanders Meeting and Convention Center, which played a key role in providing a wide range of diverse spaces, the AIPC Annual Conference kept delegates engaged in distinctively new ways.

It is its unique set of knowledge clusters, attention to local engagement, and the innovative ways it delivers ideas and learnings that makes Australia's Northern Territory stand out as a congress destination.

In his monthly contribution, Mohamed Mezghani, Secretary General of the International Organisation for Public Transport (UITP), reflects on the potential of social media for associations

In his very first contribution to Boardroom, Antonio A.F. De Salles, Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery and Radiation Therapy and President of the Ibero-Latin American Radiosurgery Society, explains all about the legacies of medical conventions and their challenges in the digital age.

Mohamed Mezghani has been appointed Secretary General of the UITP in January. Boardroom has asked him to contribute a monthly column in which he explains all about the challenges of holding such a position. This is Mohamed's very first insights.

Traditionally, hackathons are events that focus on entrepreneurship and engineering, culminating in the creation of inspiring prototypes and new ideas. Taking a note from the tech world, associations are realising the value in this dedicated type of group problem solving.

The delegates of the 2017 ICCA Congress may have noticed plenty of young smiling faces roaming the streets of Prague in November. These young volunteers were students of the Travel and Trade at the University of Economics in Prague.