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The Visceral Medicine Congress at CCH–Hamburg

From Boardroom: The official opening of the new Congress Center Hamburg in April 2022 has definitely put the city back on the national and international market of business events. CCH’s soft opening began already in fall 2021 with the ITS World Congress, with many events following, including the successful Visceral Medicine Congress in September. In…

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Associations and the SDGs: A Framework for Legacy

Iceberg partner European Cities Marketing has just staged its International Conference and General Assembly in Hamburg, rebranding during the event as the City Destinations Alliance. Visit Flanders and #Meet4impact presented a legacy collaboration there, and the latter’s Geneviève Leclerc now explains how the SDGs make a great framework around which to anchor the legacy of association meetings….

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Hamburg’s CCH Fully Reopens for Business

Following a comprehensive remodelling and modernisation which began in 2017, the Congress Center Hamburg has fully reopened for business. Thee new CCH is now one of Europe’s largest convention centres with 36,000 square metres of available space, which includes fifty multifunctional halls spread across four levels for conventions and events. From Association Meetings International…

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City Destinations Alliance: Standing with Ukraine

Iceberg partner European Cities Marketing has just staged its International Conference and General Assembly in Hamburg, rebranding during the event as the City Destinations Alliance. The meeting formulated policy on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, also making a video of solidarity, and held a remarkable session hearing from two industry colleagues based in Lviv, Ukraine. Russia’s…

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AC Forum President Carola van der Hoeff: Adapt and Diversify

Carola van der Hoeff is the new President of AC Forum (Associations and Conference Forum). In a broad interview on the Deep Dive podcast she discusses restarting association events, changing business models, building back better and organising her first webinar. As well as that, she looks forward to face-to-face IMEX meetings. From Associations Meetings International…

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30 March 2022

ECM International Conference & General Assembly 2022, Hamburg

Digitalisation is here to stay, but, in this increasing virtual world, we need to meet physically to work together and get inspiration. “Face-to-face meetings are extremely important. This has been impressively confirmed by the pandemic. ECM is one of the most inspiring networks in this industry to exchange trends, leadership, inspiration and knowledge transfer. We…

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30 March 2022

ECM International Conference & General Assembly 2022, Hamburg

Digitalisation is here to stay, but, in this increasing virtual world, we need to meet physically to work together and get inspiration. “Face-to-face meetings are extremely important. This has been impressively confirmed by the pandemic. ECM is one of the most inspiring networks in this industry to exchange trends, leadership, inspiration and knowledge transfer. We…

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26 January 2022

UFI | Global CEO Summit 2022, Hamburg, Germany

(By invitation only) The Global CEO Summit, the GCS, is one of UFI’s most prestigious events and takes place each year the last week of January or the first week of February. It serves as the exhibition industry’s annual curtain raiser event for the most senior executives worldwide. It offers top-level content, dialogues, and excellent…

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1 February 2021

UFI Digital CEO Summit (GCS) 2021, Online

(By invitation only.) The Global CEO Summit, is one of UFI’s most prestigious events. It serves as the exhibition industry’s annual curtain raiser event for the most senior executives worldwide, offering top-level content, dialogues, and excellent networking. The event is for CEOs and equivalents from international exhibition organisers and venue operators. A series of GCS…

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The DMMO COVID-19 Continuity Checklist

In 2017 Iceberg partner European Cities Marketing, in partnership with Toposophy, published eight bold statements in The Future of DMOs: The ECM Manifest that set out a vision for what DMOs (destination marketing organisations) could and should become. The final of these statements warned of ‘‘The New Normal’’, a world in which ‘‘crises of every kind have…

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Hamburg: Port to the World Plays the Music of Meetings

Germany’s second city, Hamburg, is “Port to the World”, and attracts maritime events as well as the renewable energies sector. Venue CCH (Congress Center Hamburg) reopens in 2020 to become the country’s largest conference facility. But the UK Institute of Acoustics drew on musical heritage for its own event. From Meetings & Incentive Travel…

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