Conference & Meetings World Issue 144 | Page 5

Features
Regulars

Contents

Features

17 >> Budapest and Balaton ready to do the business
24 >> Interview with Newbury Racecourse CEO Shaun Hinds who champions a venue leaping forward
42 >> IMEX America: Designing to meet confidence levels at a 5-year high
45 >> A case study of Nebius Inflection’ s AI Expert Forum produced by Nteractive
47 >> Sledge agency’ s Future Snapshot of quarterly trends
54 >> Radisson Hotel Group’ s senior director, Muriel Poulenc’ s thoughts on designing the future of healthcare meetings

Regulars

03 >> Editor’ s letter 06 >> Global Snapshot
09 >> ICCA’ s CEO highlights the industry’ s power of bringing different worlds together
11 >> CityDNA president Barbara Jamison-Woods says it’ s time to view businesss events as instruments of place development
13 >> AIPC CEO views convention centres as strategic assets and partners in urban resilience
53 >> SITE’ s Padraic Gilligan finds a Gen Z surprise package among the research data

49 Hotel review

Crowne Plaza Porto presses the reset: Simon George reports

26 North America focus

A closer look at a select group of cities and their events USPs

56 Agency MD interview

New model agency army assembling internationally
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