Fostering meaningful connections and opening doors to exciting new collaborations. Barry Neame, CEM, PCOA President, and Maxine Tod, Director Business Partnerships, were proud to represent PCOA at the highly successful Meetings 2023 held at Tākina – Wellington Convention & Exhibition Centre last week.
Mark your calendars for the 15th Annual PCOA Conference and Exhibition, taking place from 10 -12 December 2023 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. PCOA23 promises to be a one-of-a-kind opportunity for business event professionals to network, learn, and grow together.
Business Events Adelaide has added to its bid team after securing increased funding from the Malinauskas government. “The State Government’s investment in the organisation has been much welcomed, and is a clear signal that the Government sees business events as a sensible no-risk high-return investment in the State’s economic future,” said Business Events Adelaide CEO Damien Kitto.
The Federal Government has today confirmed a $2 million allocation to measure the impact and benefit of business events.
ICMS Australasia (ICMSA) has expanded its geographic footprint and opened an office in Christchurch, New Zealand. Karen Hamilton, who has been working in the New Zealand business events sector for the past 16 years, has assumed the new role of Director New Zealand.
Two organisations are looking for leadership replacements after Mark Day announced this week via social media that he was leaving the business events industry. Day, who has been with Business Events Geelong for 10 years as its Business Events Manager, will leave for a career change in the real estate industry in a few weeks.
It’s time to celebrate – the 100th issue of Spice magazine is out now! That’s right – our autumn edition of Spice magazine is our 100th issue and our highly popular annual Hot Seat feature!
Business Events Tasmania are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Visionary Program
Out now! The inaugural Business Events Tasmania Magazine. Tasmania’s new magazine highlights what’s new on the island! Despite the immense challenges delivered by the pandemic, Tasmanian tourism and hospitality operators have been working hard, with a lot of new product offered to market under the most difficult of trading conditions.
The NSW Government and Business Events Sydney have released details of a new funding program open for applications from today to stimulate the return of business events across Greater Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong.