Everything required to put on a conference including destination selection, food and beverage, speakers, audio visual technology and space requirements for meetings and discussions. en-us http://www.tradeshowweek.com/community/Conferences/47380.html?nid=3640 2008 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use. Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:14 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6552184.html?nid=3640 The tradeshow industry may be evolving in an environmentally responsible direction, but at this stage, when anyone can claim their show is green, one question persists: What really is green anyway? For anyone interested in sustainability, the concept of what constitutes a green show, product or service, and how this can be measured is a confusing one – until now. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6542143.html?nid=3640 The exhibition-industry conference season gets underway shortly with the annual SISO CEO Summit scheduled to begin April 6 at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg, Fla. The theme of this year's Summit is Strategies, Trends & Fundamentals. Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6536224.html?nid=3640 CMP and O'Reilly Media, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco and Web 2.0 Summit, will launch Web 2.0 Expo New York Sept. 16-19 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York. The organizers introduced the Web 2.0 Expo brand last April in San Francisco as an annual gathering of technical, design, marketing and business professionals working in the world of Web 2. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6518257.html?nid=3640 Associations listen more and more to membership demands to find new markets for their products and services. In response, many based in North America are stretching overseas with conferences, conventions and tradeshows. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6518273.html?nid=3640 A typical conference session looks something like this: A speaker stands behind a podium at the front of a room, faces the audience and uses a power point presentation for visual demonstrations. After 45 minutes to an hour, the speaker takes questions from the audience. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6514152.html?nid=3640 The Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Assn. will hold its annual HCEA Healthcare Convention Marketing Summit Jan. 24 at the Hartford Marriott Downtown in Hartford, Conn. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:53:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6509822.html?nid=3640 To keep their events in the front of attendees' minds, some organizers are putting their shows' educational content online. At first glance, that might seem not just counterintuitive, but self-destructive. Certainly, some show managers still fear that offering educational information on the Internet may steer audiences away from conferences at tradeshows. Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6488671.html?nid=3640 TriStar Publishing is trying to make tradeshows a little easier for its clients. The company focuses on event publications for professional associations and turns them into non-dues revenue. "We have positioned ourself in the marketplace as a medical publisher," said Robin Boss, COO at TriStar. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6482901.html?nid=3640 Reed Exhibitions and Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy have made a 25-year agreement to co-produce the Boston health care facility's extensive series of continuing medical education programs. According to the agreement, Reed Medical Education will handle audience development, marketing and logistics, while Mass General will identify the educational needs of the psychiatry commun... Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6484323.html?nid=3640 The second annual Intl. Medical Tourism Conference will be held in conjunction with Consumer Health World Dec. 3-5 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Washington, D.C. Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:17:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6483707.html?nid=3640 Meeting Professionals Intl. will organize the European Meetings & Events Conference April 18-20 at ExCel London. Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:36:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6474737.html?nid=3640 Canon Communications has acquired Engel Publishing Partners, a business-to-business firm that primarily serves the pharmaceutical sector, from Euromoney Institutional Investor. Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:07:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6464376.html?nid=3640 The Society of Independent Show Organizers has two main meetings: one in the spring for CEOs, and another in the summer for senior executives. It was thinking about the difference between the two meetings that gave Tradeshow Week editors the idea for this and the other stories that follow in our special section for SISO's Executive Conference at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6464379.html?nid=3640 As you know by now, since you've leafed through this issue of Tradeshow Week and finally gotten to the last page, we hoped to provoke a little discussion on the subject of leadership and who might be part of the next generation of chief executives to provide direction in the tradeshow industry. Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6462528.html?nid=3640 The Surface Mount Technology Assn. has agreed to endorse Electronics West, one of six tradeshows owned by Canon Communications that collocate at the Anaheim Convention Center Jan. 28-31. Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:51:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6461096.html?nid=3640 The Asia Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, scheduled Feb. 19-20 at the Melbourne (Australia) Exhibition Centre, will include a number of programs intended to set a new benchmark for exhibitions in Australia. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:02:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6459342.html?nid=3640 r. William "Bill" Frist, former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee and Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007, will speak at the Natl. Assn. of Chain Drug Stores Pharmacy & Technology Conference Aug. 11 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:41:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6458867.html?nid=3640 The American Bar Assn. Expo will be held at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston Aug. 7-14, 2014. Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:10:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6455936.html?nid=3640 The Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Assn. has inaugurated its HCEA 100, a list of health care events that it calls the most significant in the industry. "The impetus was to see what the leading conventions are telling us about our business," said Frank Skinner, HCEA market research analyst. Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6456590.html?nid=3640 A subsidiary of Tarsus Group, Medical Conferences Intl., will launch an as yet-unnamed exhibition and conference focusing on anti-aging Sept. 11-14, 2008, in Duesseldorf, Germany. Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:10:00 MST