Exhibition World Issue 6 — 2019 | Page 7

Global Snapshot South Korea - Coex Convention & Exhibition Center (CCEC) recently hosted the International Conference on Computer Vision 2019 - the world’s largest international conference in the field of visual and artificial intelligence. The event attracted over 7,500 professionals, academics, researchers, and students, including 5,000 international participants from 50 nations. Coex hosted the event and helped organise the conference through its in-house PCO. The effort led to the conference’s most successful and highly attended edition yet. w w w.exhibitionworld.co.uk Australia - Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Event (AIME) has announced a new initiative called the Associations Round Table. The invitation-only roundtable will connect event professionals in the association sector with discussions and workshops. It will take place over half a day during the event’s Knowledge Programme. AIME will take place from 17-19 February 2020 in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. New Zealand - New Zealand’s largest tradeshow organiser, XPO Exhibitions, has acquired nine national consumer exhibitions from North Port Events including: The Baby Shows, The Food Shows (Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch), Fine Food New Zealand, Facilities Integrate, Waikato Home & Garden Show and Autumn HomeXPO. XPO managing director Brent Spillane said: “The profile and stature of these events compliment those already organised by XPO and the acquisition injects significant new scale and talent.” Issue 6 2019 7