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.
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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.”
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