Press Releases

Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is holding its 6th Connect Conference at the Radisson Blu Edwardian, Manchester, Friday 26th October with support from the Association of Event Venues (AEV) an ...

ICC Birmingham welcomed the AEV Security Working Group on 19th September, chaired for the first time by NEC’s Steve Neal. Thanks to Steve’s direction the group were able to gain an audience with two g ...

We are proud to announce that Martin Cottrell, managing director of A1 Event & Exhibition Cleaners, has been appointed to the chair of the cross-association Sustainability Working Group, and Lucille R ...

Jeremy Rees, chief executive of ExCeL London, is to step down as chair of the AEV Board. Dan Thurlow, director of exhibition sales, SEC and the current vice-chair, will take his place. Max Bull, execu ...

We are proud to announce the publication of the Size And Scale index of Events (SASiE) report which includes detailed quantitative analysis data generated by hundreds of events in 2017. The SASiE repo ...

We celebrate the decision of the Exhibition News 30 under 30 judges, who picked three young venue professionals for their illustrious list, published in this month's edition of the magazine. The accol ...

  Amir Vered, head of eForce and IT at Olympia London, has been appointed the new chair of the cross-association Technology Working Group. Emma Bogan, lead business relationship manager at NEC Group, ...

  Stadium MK rejoins the Association of Event Venues (AEV) to benefit from the working groups. Stadium MK's sales & marketing director, Andy Gibb said, “Having served on the board of the AEV I am a ve ...

We have published the 2018 edition of the eGuide, the document that conveys the best advice, guidance and regulations pertaining to working at UK venues, with the ambition of creating a clearly define ...

UK EVENTS INDUSTRY BOARD TALENT TASKFORCE LAUNCHES RESEARCH TO ASSESS HOW THE SECTOR ATTRACTS, DEVELOPS AND RETAINS ITS TALENT. The UK Events Industry Board Talent Taskforce has today launched a resea ...

46 individuals from across the industry (Venues, Organisers and Suppliers) met in tandem at CentrEd, ExCeL London on 27th June, the day before the AEV annual conference; splitting into Technology (cro ...

We welcome ICC Wales and its sister venue, The Celtic Manor Resort, as full members to the Association, in advance of ICC Wales opening in 2019. ICC Wales is a £83.7m joint venture between Celtic Mano ...

We are delighted to report that on June 28, 2018, at ExCeL London, we enjoyed a 62% increase in the number of delegates attending our annual conference, with 71% of all member venues represented. 2018 ...

We are happy to announce the appointment of Cheryl Busby (Clarion Events) and Rajeshree Pragji (QEII Centre) as the chair and vice-chair of the Event Industry HR Group. The cross-association group was ...

  With our 2018 annual conference fast approaching, we have just announced that Glisser has agreed to partner with AEV to support the event, at ExCeL London on June 28. Michael Piddock, CEO of Glisser ...

                      GES, the leading, full service provider for live events in EMEA, has announced it will partner with us at our 2018 conference at ExCeL London on Thursday! Blitz, a GES company, w ...

We are happy to announce that Sandown Park Racecourse has joined the association as our newest member. Since opening in Esher, Surrey, in 1875 as one of Britain's first purpose-built racecourses and l ...

ExCeL London hosted our 4th Cross Association Working Group meeting of the year in their CentrEd meeting facility, chaired by Olympia London's Chris Morrison. Association collaboration on competency r ...

                      We are happy to welcome another landmark venue to the association as a full member. The Science Museum, founded more than 160 years ago, is a globally recognised attraction recei ...