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We are delighted to announce the winners of the International & European Associations Awards 2020. View the winners here.  

Register to attend the Association Awards UK ceremony online on Wednesday, 16th December, at 16:30hrs GMT. Invite your colleagues to join you and ensure you all register with your work email address, so that you are all 'seated' together. You could bring along a drink, for a virtual toast to the winners.  Register here.

Just 5 sponsored guest places remaining for the Association Leaders Summit next week!  Taking place online on Wednesday 16 December, we are delighted to be hosting 6 outstanding CEOs to talk about leading associations in the pandemic, financial and business sustainability, lessons learnt and more. See here for the full agenda >>   If you would like to take up a sponsored guest place to attend the event, don't delay! Email cecilia.spoor@associationexecutives.org today!

On 26 November we held a Venues & Destinations Showcase day where convention bureaus and venues presented their update offering, demonstrating how they are providing the best tech support for hybrid events services and how they have overcome challenges in the COVID-19 era.  The full presentations can be viewed below.  

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Winners of the International & European Association Awards 2020
Finalists for the Association Awards UK 2020
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Summits & Congresses
16 DECEMBER 2020
Association Leaders Summit

Online
  13 – 15 JUNE 2021
Associations World Congress

Cascais, Portugal
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Online Masterclasses
10 DECEMBER 2020
Adopting a Data Culture to Support your CRM Strategy

Online | 3hrs + 3hrs
  5 JANUARY 2021
Transforming your Conferences & Events

Online | 3hrs + 3hrs
 
28 JANUARY 2021
Eight Engagement Elephants: identify yours and what to do about them

Online | 1hr 30mins
  2 FEBRUARY 2021
Social Media Strategy for Associations

Online | 3hrs + 3hrs
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Showcases
27 JANUARY 2021
Online Conference Systems Showcase

  10 FEBRUARY 2021
Venues & Destinations Showcase 2021

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 Venues & Destinations Showcase Presentations

 

 
Melbourne, Australia Presentation

The Melbourne Convention Bureau will be taking you through the new Delegate Destination Site that will help you evaluate Melbourne as a future host city for your meeting or event, as well as it being a tool to optimise delegate engagement and drive attendance face to face and virtually.

 

 

The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre will be presenting on the following areas –

Their Venue Safe Plan to ensure all your delegates remain safe during their time at the Centre; discuss how they are working with customers on tailored terms and conditions in the face of so much uncertainty. Their virtual events offering and predictions for the hybrid event future to come

View here >>

 

 
Singapore Presentation

The presentation will give an overview of Singapore’s events infrastructure in general and of the measures put in place to ensure your health and safety in the city-state (SG Clean certification, Safe Management Measures). You will learn about the pilot scheme for the safe resumption of business events and about the new facilities for hybrid events, such as broadcasting studios with live-streaming capabilities and hologram functionalities, and about the various ways that the Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau can support you for your next conference.

 

Marina Bay Sands®  is Asia’s leading destination for business, leisure and entertainment delivering once-in-a- lifetime experiences. Hear from us on our new hybrid broadcast studio and virtual conferencing options and how we have introduced a comprehensive slew of measures using the three principles: Prevent, Protect and Pursue.

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Hofburg, Vienna Presentation

Hear from us on our hybrid technologies, new hybrid event packages and our prevention plan and bespoke solutions for safe meetings and conferences. 

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Flanders, Belgium Presentation

Hear from Visit Flanders on why our sector will survive the crisis; how a government can help; why innovation is the most successful vaccine; which trends will dominate the sector in the future and why physical conferences will continue to be important.

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Hear from Flanders Meeting & Convention Center Antwerp on how our latest techniques and new building offer many advantages to easily turn your conference into a COVID-proof event. Why choosing for ‘A Room with a ZOO’ means contributing to nature conservation; how we pay attention to human ecology and a minimal ecological footprint; how ‘A Room with a ZOO’ can deliver engaging content for your on-line audience during hybrid meetings.

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Gothenburg, Sweden Presentation

Hear from Gothenburg Convention Bureau on: Rapid innovation and work for events: Digital meetings, live broadcasts and videoing hybrid meetings; Local supplier collaboration, new partnerships, new knowledge – venues and congress organisers; City collaboration to adjust to covid-19 disruption and the national “Safe to meet, Safe to visit” standards; Destination support for meetings planned for 2021.

 

 

Hear from The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre on: Meeting packages with advanced options for digital and hybrid association events; Meeting solutions that be scaled up or down in the form of hybrid or physical meetings; The Gothia Studio supporting hybrid videoing and presenting; Safety measures, standards, procedures and preparedness in place.

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ICC, Birmingham, UK Presentation

Hear from the ICC Birmingham on how they have enhanced their existing bespoke hybrid offering to meet the growing needs of events with both live and virtual requirements. The in-house team will, as always, work collaboratively with you to transition from a physical to virtual event seamlessly, or create a hybrid or virtual event from the early planning stages.  With all of this in mind, their venues have adapted fluidly and, with new safety procedures in place under their Venue Protect scheme, they are ready to head confidently into 2021 and beyond. 

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Job Vacancies

Policy Director

Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry

  • Brussels, Belgium
  • Permanent

Membership Engagement Lead

The Law Society of England & Wales

  • London, United Kingdom
  • Permanent
  • GBP 50,189–59,046

Policy & Project Officer

Association of European Cancer Leagues

  • Brussels, Belgium
  • Permanent

Head of Membership Communications & Content

The Law Society of England & Wales

  • London, United Kingdom
  • Permanent
  • GBP 59,793–70,345

Policy & Public Affairs Officer

British Beer & Pub Association

  • London, United Kingdom
  • Permanent
  • GBP 27,000–30,000
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Benchmarking Tool - UK Salaries & Benefits

The AAE's UK Association Salary and Benefits Benchmarking Tool enables you to benchmark your staff salaries, their benefits and your own using the online interactive AAE Benchmark tool. No more endless static reports! You draw up your own criteria and select your own filters. You can select by job role and multiple criteria so that you can make meaningful comparisons against other organisations similar to yours or different.  View sample data and more here >>