BEST LONGSTANDING ASSOCIATION EVENT (over 800 attendees)
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – Accounting for the Future 2022
Accounting for the Future offers attendees valuable insights into the future of accounting. By focusing on cutting-edge issues, the conference equips ACCA members with the knowledge and tools to adapt and thrive in a rapidly evolving profession. The conference attracts renowned experts and thought leaders as speakers. These individuals, who bring unique perspectives, offer informative, engaging and thought-provoking insights, providing attendees with practical strategies and actionable insights AFF serves as a platform for showcasing thought leadership and innovation within the profession. By highlighting these advancements, the conference inspires attendees to embrace change, drive innovation in their organisations, and shape the future of the accountancy profession.
We go beyond theoretical discussions and focus on real-world applications, offering case studies and interactive sessions that allow participants to apply their learning in the workplace. The event also creates an environment conducive to networking – attendees have opportunities to connect with peers, share experiences and discuss challenges – and it engenders a sense of community across our diverse membership. Overall, AFF stands out as a premier event addressing critical issues facing the accounting profession. Its forward-thinking content, high-quality speakers, networking opportunities, practical applications, thought leadership and impact on the profession make it deserving candidate.
British Thoracic Society – BTS Winter Meeting – 1983 to 2022 and beyond
“This was a great meeting. The right balance of science to clinical; the diversity of speakers, chairs and delegates.”
British Thoracic Society is the foremost professional society for respiratory medicine. The Annual Winter Meeting started in 1983 with around 400 mostly male doctors. Today it has grown to over 2000 delegates representing all members of the multi-disciplinary respiratory team, including nurses, scientists and allied health professionals.
Delegates value networking between grades and disciplines, enjoying the opportunity to share their work and learn about innovations in respiratory care.
The Winter Meeting is the highlight of the UK respiratory calendar, rewarding and promoting opportunities for every career stage. Early career researchers can present posters, publish abstracts and participate as speakers and session chairs, while senior researchers can present Plenary Symposia. This year BTS has added a new award also recognising Mid-career researchers.
The Meeting attracts world-class speakers like Sir Jonathan Van Tam, who supported the UK response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Sir Michael Marmot, who champions awareness of health inequalities.
Diversity and inclusion remain key aims, and the Winter Meeting offers a multi-faith room, quiet rooms for nursing mothers and the opportunity for delegates to bring another person for support.
ENT UK – BACO International 2023
BACO International 2023 was ENT UK’s eighteenth conference of its kind. This long-awaited fully face-to-face conference took place at the ICC in Birmingham, and featured an all-embracing, innovative three-day programme including over 180 educational sessions. The programme consisted of topics across many ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialties including facial plastics; head and neck; laryngology; otology; paediatrics; and rhinology, as well as separate programmes for trainees, allied health professionals and audiologists. All educational sessions were recorded and made available to delegates and members after the event.
The conference featured a fantastic social programme, including the ‘Meet the Sponsors’ evening, and the infamous ‘BACO Networking Evening’. ENT UK’s community feel and consideration for inclusivity and diversity was obvious during BACO 2023, where medical professionals within ENT, as well as GPs and Audiologists, from all walks and life and levels of experience, came together to celebrate learning and advances within their field.
BACO 2023 was a huge success which surpassed all expectations. ENT UK were proud to respect the longstanding aims of the conference whilst also promoting their values of teamwork, ambition, respect, innovation and quality, in the context of their strategy of ‘inspiring excellence and shaping the future’.
Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management – IWFM Impact Awards 2022
The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM)’s Impact Awards recognise the sterling work done by those in the workplace and facilities sector to ensure buildings remain fit for purpose and serve the rapidly evolving needs of today’s workforce. IWFM represents a wide range of frontline personnel, including cleaners, caterers, security guards and hospital assistants, as well as those tasked with running such operations in either in-house or outsourced FM teams.
Having returned to an in-person event in 2021 following the pandemic, the challenge for the 2022 Impact Awards was to build on that foundation by going bigger and better. The event, held at London’s Grosvenor House on 17 October, certainly did that.
Beyond the fizz, the glitz and glamour – and the live band that had people dancing into the early hours – the evening really tapped into the need for people in the sector to come together and enjoy themselves, with post-event feedback demonstrating just what a good time guests had. As one attendee commented, it was: “A fantastic event celebrating all that is great about the FM industry!”
National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers – NACFB Commercial Finance Expo 2022
Launched in 2010, the annual NACFB Commercial Finance Expo (CFE) has established itself as the UK’s largest intermediary- led trade show for brokers, lenders, and service providers in the commercial finance industry. The first NACFB Commercial Finance expo, hosted 13 years ago at the end of the recession, with just 37 exhibitors, each with a three-by-two trestle table and attendees reaching just under 400, was the start of an ever-growing annual event.
The goal of the NACFB Commercial Finance Expo is, and will always be, to create an opportunity for networking with industry colleagues and peers, buildings relationships, and creating opportunities with commercial finance lenders. We stand between two cohorts and our aim is to facilitate positive engagements between brokers and lenders, and the Commercial Finance Expo is the perfect opportunity to do this.
The Aerosol Society & EICC – Drug Delivery to the Lungs Conference
The Aerosol Society’s Drug Delivery to the Lungs Conference (DDL) is in its 34th year. The conference started as a meeting with a small group of like-minded scientists working in the niche area of drug delivery to the lungs.
The conference moved to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) in 2005, and today it attracts in excess of 1,000 attendees worldwide, including scientists, academics, clinicians, regulators and industry experts.
The conference includes a large industry exhibition, supported by over 100 international companies, a scientific poster hall, expert lectures and excellent networking opportunities over a three-day period every December. The DDL Conference actively supports young scientists by offering free registration for students, Career Development Grants and a variety of awards to recognise their achievements.
Having hosted the conference for eighteen consecutive years, the EICC and the Aerosol Society enjoy an excellent working partnership. The EICC team has supported the development of the conference over the years, using their expertise to advise and guide the organising committee with regards to the logistics, delegate experience and growing the exhibition.
The Croatian Association of Communications Agencies – Dani komunikacija 2023
DK Festival is not just a festival; it’s an experience that transcends boundaries. It’s where ideas collide, relationships blossom, and the future of communication takes shape. We’ve pushed the boundaries of what a festival can be, and our members and participants have embraced this evolution with open arms. Starting as a local one-day event, the festival has outgrown the traditional notion of a “business conference” and become synonymous with terms like “out-of-the-box approach”, “unique program”, “provocative production”, and “top-notch organization.”
From 100+ star speakers like Edward Snowden and 5 glamorous awards shows with drag queens to 125 partners and sponsors, 6 different locations to follow the festival program and 3 parties, at DK2023 we created an environment that encourages serendipitous encounters and meaningful connections, where the boundaries between the stage and the audience blur – making DK Festival a once-in-a-lifetime experience that unites the whole region for 3 unforgettable days in Istria, Croatia.
The Manufacturing Technologies Association – MACH 2022
MACH is the national exhibition for inspiring, innovating and connecting engineering-based manufacturing. As organisers of the event, we try to live up to that standard by providing a platform for new technologies and solutions, by enabling visitors and exhibitors to create new connections and by offering guidance and support on the key issues interesting our audience.
We help our members to bring live working machinery to the exhibition so they can demonstrate their capabilities to a huge audience, our goal is to make sure that our exhibitors can show real return for investment and secure more business within the UK’s manufacturing and advanced engineering sector.
MACH has 110 years of history behind it but as organisers we are constantly looking to the future to make sure we evolve alongside the sector we are proud to serve.
