What’s coming up in 2020: Top 5 Conferencing Trends

It’s a new year and a new decade, so why not try a new strategy? January provides the perfect opportunity for reflection, and more importantly, forward thinking for the next 12 months that lay ahead. To beat the competition, conference and events organisers should take advantage of this fresh beginning by looking at upcoming trends and thinking about how they can implement them in their own work.

Dubai Cares to Host Education Summit in Pursuit of 2030 Global Goals

A ground-breaking global education summit to be held during Expo 2020 Dubai will reshape the global conversation on education, pushing the boundaries of current thinking to explore new approaches to global challenges...

Unveil the Beauty in Helsinki, "Daughter of the Baltic"

What do you know about Finland? The most common answers are Santa Claus and vodka. Fair enough: these two already represent the meaning of a good life in Finland. Vivian's idea of good life includes many aspects, especially: clear environment, food and drinks, good education, reliable medical care, and freedom.
In Helsinki, she found them all.

Taubie Motlhabane Appointed CEO of the CTICC

The Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) has appointed Taubie Motlhabane as the centre’s new CEO. Motlhabane will formally take over the position from the convention centre’s current CEO, Julie-May Ellingson, at the end of January 2020...

Cinema As The Main Concept Of The 4Th Edition Of The ‘Spanish Mama Congress’

The Mama Congress aimed to be a multidisciplinary forum integrating all the specialists who participate in breast pathology, and they achieved it on October 17-19 at IFEMA. With this goal, the Spanish Society of Diagnostic Breast Imaging (SEDIM) and the Spanish Society of Senology and Breast Pathology (SESPM) began to work. The first one is made up of specialists in diagnostic imaging, the second one is multidisciplinary...

The Potato and the Congress

That this planet is made of rice and potato is something on which we can all agree. However, we would have never imagined the existence of congresses for products such as the famous tuber - considered a food for the poor in bygone days. These days, instead, potatoes are a true food phenomenon and one of the world’s largest crops.
Marcel's edito on what is behind the upcoming World Potato Congress.