9th May 2018
business events news business events news Today’s issue of BEN Business Events News today has two pages of news plus a full page from Fairmont Resort.
MEA winners THE 2017 Meetings & Events Australia (MEA) awards were announced last night at the organisation’s national conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre. In total, 35 awards were presented, with industry stalwart and former chief executive of the Adelaide Convention Centre Alec Gilbert taking home the major award for ‘Outstanding Contribution’ for his work in the events industry both in Australia and overseas. Other big winners on the night were Crowne Plaza Terrigal, which took home the award for ‘Meeting, Exhibition or Event Venue – capacity less than 500’, Darwin Convention Centre, which was awarded the ‘Meeting, Exhibition or Event Venue – capacity more than 500’ title, and The Star Entertainment Centre, which nabbed the award for ‘Event Management Team – Corporate’. ‘Exhibition of the Year’ was won by Tourism Portfolio/ World Corporate Travel for Get Global, while Belle Laide Events was awarded the honour for ‘Corporate Event of the Year’.
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ICC SYDNEY DREAMS BIG FUTURE FRESH from successfully hosting the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Mar, ICC Sydney says it is now sizing up the prospect of hosting more prestigious, largescale events in the future. ICC Sydney chief executive Geoff Donaghy told BEN the venue had a busy year ahead when it came to catering for bigger conferences. “We will soon be hosting Sibos, the world’s largest fintech conference here in Oct, we also have the 2018 World Congress of Accountants coming up in Nov this year which will bring in about 4,000 delegates,” Donaghy said. ICC Sydney’s ability to lure larger events such as ASEAN could be attributed to both the unique features of the facility and the allure of Sydney itself, Donaghy believes. “First of all we have one of the most flexible venues that exists anywhere in the world... for ASEAN we had to construct special purpose-built rooms
for the event inside our own meeting rooms,” he said. “Secondly, Sydney is virtually unmatched anywhere in the world...ICC Sydney is so close to a vibrant business district and, of course, one of the world’s most beautiful harbours.” Technology also forms an important pillar of the venue’s success according to its chief. “We are starting to attract a number of major Asia Pacific technology conferences that have traditionally been held in South East Asia - Salesforce and Amazon are just a couple of examples. Now, each of these 97x60_Layout 8/05/2018 12:03 brands are for1the very first timePM
More wine please THE Australian Tourism Export Council has announced a $35,000 grant has been approved to deliver a Wine Tourism Conference in mid-2019. The event will allow wine businesses to take advantage of growing int’l interest in local wine.
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entrusting our team with all of their IT needs,” Donaghy said. “That’s why we recently committed $1 million more in AV equipment, it’s such a rapidly changing area and is so critical to keep up to date with the enhancements.” Despite ICC Sydney’s recent success in the large-scale space, Donaghy was quick to qualify that these were just the “tip of the pyramid”. “Our ability to run three simultaneous events…is equally important to our business model than just the large mega events,” he said. Page 1 Pictured: ASEAN Summit 2018.
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