Lime Media Group announced key leadership appointments to support the company’s continued growth and operational scale. Bart McCollum, formerly Integrator of Lime Media, has been appointed President, and Spencer Rose has joined the leadership team as Chief People Officer and Head of Teams & Talent.
Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB) announces the promotion of Bruno Njiensi to accounts payable manager. Njiensi will now oversee and streamline ACVB’s accounts payable function. His responsibilities will also include managing vendor relations and compliance, maintaining financial schedules and the fixed asset register and tracking organizational commitments and concessions.
In step with the fast-moving momentum of the events industry, Aluvision is ramping up North American operations to streamline our growth and customer service support. Aluvision US welcomes Brice Shields as Director of Account Services.
The workforce that has filled convention centers for decades is changing in size and composition. And that has significant implications for the event industry & billions being invested in convention infrastructure.
One Rock Capital Partners, LLC (“One Rock”) announced that one of its affiliates has acquired a majority stake in American Furniture Rentals, Inc. (“AFR” or the “Company”).
Over the past three years, the cost of exhibiting at tradeshows has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. We’ve now reached a critical inflection point where these expenses have climbed so high that leadership teams are scrutinizing their exhibitions and events budgets more intensely than ever before.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA), the unified public policy voice of the U.S. business and professional events industry, today announced its 2026 Elected Officers and Board of Directors.
WASHINGTON— The ASAE Research Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2026 Future Leaders Professional Development Scholarship, which supports the career advancement of young association professionals.
It wasn’t Las Vegas that alienated our Canadian neighbors with silly talk about making Canada the 51st state and imposing 25 percent trade tariffs, but it cost the tourism destination an 8 percent decline in air passenger capacity in the second half of 2025.
Behind every bustling tradeshow and dazzling expo is a complex operation built on precision and increasingly, on sustainability. Convention centers are not only reducing their environmental impact but also saving money by lowering energy consumption and investing in technology that pays for itself over time.
Another early morning at the airport, another customs line, another venue for another project. For those of us who live life in crates and fluorescent lights, this is just Tuesday. This might sound exhausting to an outsider, but to us, stepping onto a tradeshow floor—be it in Frankfurt, Atlanta, or Dubai—feels profoundly, wonderfully familiar.
