Press Releases

Security and Counter Terror Expo (SCTX) is the UK’s leading national security event for professionals tasked with protecting nations, infrastructure, business and people against terrorism. SCTX is com ...

  The Cross Association Health and Safety working group will be meeting for its first meeting of the year tomorrow (Wednesday February 13th) at Alexandra Palace, London. Emma Dengate, operations manag ...

"33% of event professionals will experience a period of mental ill health" (EventWell 2017) Our first Cross Association working group of the year met at ExCeL London this week. HR professionals from a ...

  Our 5 Cross Association Association working groups are the power house of each sister Association. These groups enable cross pollination and the exploration of ideas relevant to the industry. Challe ...

Jamie Anderson, venue director, SEC Food and Amy Chong, venue retail manager, ExCeL London have been appointed as the new Chair and Vice-chair, respectively, of the AEV Catering Working Group. Anderso ...

Two Cross Association Working Group meetings took place during ESSA’s Annual Conference at Stadium MK on 29th November. Given their working group presence, representatives from across AEV and AEO were ...

We are thrilled to announce that we will be holding our 2019 conference at Manchester Central on the 4th July, followed by our 15th birthday party at a nearby venue. AEV Chair Dan Thurlow can also rev ...

The weather may be turning colder but the warm reception the Event Manager working group received from our hosts Farnborough International was most welcome. A large representation from across our memb ...

Representation from across 8 of our member venues were present at the Catering Working Group's final meeting of 2018. Wonderfully hosted by the International Centre, Telford and chaired by ExCeL Londo ...

  We are happy to announce that the AEV/AEO/ESSA Health & Safety Working Group has appointed Emma Dengate, operations manager at Reed Exhibitions, as its new chair. The cross association Health and Sa ...

Following our AEV Board Meeting in March, a new Steering Group was created to look at Education and ways we can share best practice and find solutions to the challenges surrounding talent management.  ...

With one more AEV working group to come in October (Catering) we have already enjoyed an active month of Working Group meetings. Event Industry HR Group meeting - 3rd October 2018   HR professionals f ...

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 ...