Conference & Meetings World

3 days ago | c-mw.net | Paul Colston

Ottawa Tourism has launched its Responsible Events Guide, a resource designed to help event planners make more sustainable, inclusive, and community-minded choices when hosting meetings and events in Canada’s capital. The guide will be officially showcased during IMEX Frankfurt, 20–22 May. “This guide reflects Ottawa’s dedication to creating meaningful change within the meetings and events industry,” said Lesley Pincombe, vice-president, business and major events at Ottawa Tourism.

3 days ago | c-mw.net | Paul Colston

The Sustainability Sourcing Compass, developed by the Exhibitor Advocate in partnership with Reduce 2, is a new practical framework tailored to help exhibit and event professionals meet the growing demand for sustainability. This open-source tool provides ready-to-use, customisable language to include in exhibit and event RFPs for sustainability-related requirements. The tool also contains contract-ready verbiage to enforce sustainability criteria post-supplier selection.

6 days ago | c-mw.net | Paul Colston

MGM Resorts International has announced it has offered a new contract to its CEO and president Bill Hornbuckle (pictured). The new deal will be valid through 31 December, 2028 and includes an agreement for Hornbuckle to then take on an advisory role to assist with MGM Resorts’ integrated resort project in Osaka, Japan until its opening.

6 days ago | c-mw.net | Paul Colston

Robert Kenward, fitability® recruiter and founder at Jigsaw Talent Solutions in the UK, puts the case for the events industry working shorter hours:The way we work has changed, but the way we measure work hasn’t. The eight-hour day is still standard practice, even though very few of us are doing eight hours of focused, productive work. We’re not clocking in at a factory or manning the phones in a 1990s sales office anymore.

1 week ago | c-mw.net | Paul Colston

VOQIN’, a Lisbon-based experience design and live marketing company, has announced its expansion into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through a newly formed joint venture with Entertainment Gears, a local company specialising in event production and experiential solutions. The agreement was signed at the Ministry of Investment Saudi Arabia (MISA) by Diogo Assis, founder of VOQIN’, Miguel Assis, partner at VOQIN’, and Mohamed Ramadan, CEO of Entertainment Gears (EG).