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2022 dates for your diary

January

Monday 10th: AEV Events Reopen Group, virtual meeting
Monday 17th: AEV Security Working Group, virtual meeting
Monday 31st: AEV Events Reopen Group, virtual meeting

February

Wednesday 2nd: AEV Event Managers Working Group, virtual meeting
Monday 7th: AEV/AEO/ESSA H&S Working Group, virtual meeting
Wednesday 9th: AEV eGuide sub-committee, virtual meeting
Friday 11th: AEO Forums, Business Design Centre, London
Monday 14th: AEV/AEO/ESSA Sustainability Working Group, virtual meeting
Thursday 17th: AEV Security Working Group, virtual meeting
Tuesday 22nd: The Event Industry HR Group, virtual meeting
Wednesday 23rd: AEV Marketing & Comms Working Group, virtual meeting

March

Tuesday 8th: EIA Board Meeting, International Confex, ExCeL London
Tuesday 8th & Wednesday 9th: AEV exhibiting at International Confex, ExCeL London
Wednesday 16: AEV Board Meeting, venue tbc

April

May

June

24th: AEV Board meeting, venue tbc
24th: AEO Awards, Grosvenor House, London

July

August

September

Tuesday 20th: AEV Board & AGM, venue tbc

October

Wednesday 19th: EIA Board Meeting & AGM, venue tbc

November

December

Thursday 8th: AEV Board, venue tbc

"Great day hosting our first AEV working group event!..WOW did I learn a lot and some great insights into how other venues work and the challenges they are trying to overcome. If you are a venue looking to network with other like minded professionals I would recommend looking at joining the AEV".

Danielle Worker
Corporate Events Team Leader, Silverstone Circuits Ltd
"“Great catering...is essential for a successful venue. The AEV provides a platform to establish consistent best practice in this field"

Phil Wetz
Retail & Catering Manager, ExCeL London
“The AEV provides collective representation for its member venues, turning individual commitment into a group effort"

Paul Brough
Venue Health & Safety Manager, Olympia London
"Proud to be part of this Cross Association discussion. I am confident in our ability to improve and progress our working platform through conversation".

Amir Vered
Head of eForce and IT, Olympia London (Chair of Cross Association Technology WG)
“The AEV is essential to the venue sector’s ability to cooperate and collaborate"

Jazmin Beale
Head of Marketing & Communications, Olympia London
“The AEV undertakes crucial work on behalf of event venues up and down the country to ensure our voice is heard. They reinforce the important role our sector plays in delivering economic impact, increasing trade, providing jobs and driving the visitor economy.”

Lucy Merritt
Head of Marketing and Communications, ExCeL London
AEV Membership is a key part of our business strategy; it has and will continue to be a core elements of our plan to support knowledge sharing in the industry and to develop both our team and the venue.

Kate Simpson
Marketing Director - Business Design Centre
Our team at ACC Liverpool feel indebted to the substantial work that the AEV do for our amazing industry. As the pillar association for venues across the country it’s a real privilege for our teams to participate in many of the working groups, learning and contributing to new processes which helps drive our industry forward on a national scale.

Colm Graham
Senior Exhibition Account Manager, ACC Liverpool
We have benefited hugely from all of the insight, discussion, events and networking, but it has also meant that we have been able to give back to the industry by sharing our unique experiences and professional knowledge and allowing our employees to help lead and shape the Association from the inside.

Mathew James
Head of Brand, Telford International Centre
“The AEV has been an invaluable asset to us as a company and the wider industry, helping to lobby on the industries behalf, consolidating and distributing information and facilitating vital knowledge sharing.”

Charlie Hodgson
Managing Director at The Kia Oval