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ICCASkills is a fantastic way to increase your own brand value proposition as an ambitious – and committed – professional working in the international events and meetings industry. This course is designed for higher-level executives to learn about new strategies and business models to elevate the level of the industry for meeting suppliers.
Skift Meetings’ Executive Editor Andrea Doyle argues that as global associations expand into fast-growing destinations, inclusion and human rights are becoming as critical as infrastructure and airlift. ICCA’s choice of Kigali for its 2027 Congress spotlights Rwanda’s rising meetings profile but raises concerns about LGBTQ safety and stigma, prompting calls for proactive inclusion planning.
This post-conference report from the latest edition of AHAIC held earlier this year in Kigali, Rwanda illustrates how international meetings can not only identify critical vulnerabilities and shared challenges, but can craft and launch local-needs-led programmes aimed at building continent-wide resilience and innovation. AHAIC now has a decade-long track record of convening African thought leaders…
The International AIDS Society has used it’s recent global conference on HIV science not only to present the latest scientific progress and research initiatives in combatting HIV, but to shine a spotlight on the impact of recent dramatic cuts to overseas aid programmes on rising HIV infections, the scale of stalled treatments, and the overall…
The African Society of Association Executives has created a training legacy for African associations. Eighty-nine professionals and nonprofit managers in Rwanda, Kenya and Nigeria successfully completed its certificate course in association management. Gregg Talley of Iceberg partner Talley Management Group and AfSAE President Jeffers Miruka facilitated the training. From Boardroom…
A history of war or peace, or of injustice or justice, has made four cities ideal destinations for conferences with a conscience: The Hague, global home of conflict resolution, Bogotá, after half a century of Colombian conflict, Belfast, after the Northern Ireland peace process, and Kigali, after Rwanda’s genocide. From Association Meetings International…
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