Press Releases

Our initial Cross Association Working Group of 2018 was The Event Industry HR Group who met at the QEII Centre, a first for the venue as attendee and as host. There was strong attendance by members fr ...

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has announced that Landsec, the UK's largest commercial property development and investment company, has the joined the association. Landsec manages over twenty-s ...

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has released a selection of key findings from the annual Size And Scale index of Events (SASiE) report for 2016, published this month by the AEV, Association of E ...

Tom Revell, sustainability manager at GES EMEA, has been appointed as Chair of the cross-association Sustainability Working Group, which meets twice a year to discuss and resolve sustainability issues ...

The Association of Event Venues has appointed Alden Arnold, formerly of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), to the newly created position of project manager as the association strengthens its membe ...

The AEV/ESSA/AEO Technology Working Group met at the QEII Centre on November 9, 2017 for the last meeting of 2017, with Emma Bogan of The NEC acting as chair. Opening the meeting, Bogan introduced her ...

The AEV Event Managers Working Group convened at the SEC, Glasgow on Thursday November 23, 2017 for its final meeting of the year. Chair Michelle Baldwin began proceedings with a welcome to all 20 att ...

The AEV/AEO/ESSA Technical Committee, Electrics convened at the QEII Centre on Thursday November 9, 2017 with Chris Morrison of Olympia London in the chair. Morrison opened with a welcome to all membe ...

The AEV Catering Working Group gathered for its last meeting of 2017 at ExCeL London on Wednesday November 29, with Phil Wetz in the chair. Wetz welcomed all to the meeting before formally accepting t ...

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has announced that its 2018 conference, built on the theme of ‘Tomorrow’s World’, will be held at ExCeL London on Thursday June 28. The ever popular conference ic ...

The Association of Event Venues has announced the appointment of Anna Clover, director of venue operations & customer experience at the QEII Centre, to the association’s board. Clover joins the board ...

The AEV Security Working Group met at Telford International Centre on Wednesday October 25, 2017 for its second meeting of the year, and with Andy Coulson of Farnborough International in the chair. Af ...

The AEV eGuide Working Group met for the second and final time this year at the NEC, convening in the Concourse Suite. Siân Richards assumed the chair for the first time, welcoming the attendees, intr ...

The AEV/AEO/ESSA Sustainability Working Group met for the second time this year on Thursday October 19th at the NEC, convening at Severn Trent’s anaerobic digestion plant at Coleshill, where all NEC G ...

The AEV/AEO/ESSA Health & Safety Working Group convened for its second meeting of the year at the NEC, Birmingham on Wednesday October 11 with Paul Brough of Olympia London in the chair and 27 attende ...

The second meeting of the new Event Industry HR Working Group took place at Diversified Communications, Brighton on September 13 2017, with Trevor Foley of tfconnect in the chair. Foley welcomed all a ...

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) board has welcomed its newest member, Manchester Central’s CEO Shaun Hinds. Hinds, who joined Manchester Central as CEO in June following his tenure as managing d ...

After graduating with a BSc.(Hons) in Product Management, Michelle joined Barclaycard Arena as a catering coordinator, before being offered a role as an event manager at NEC where she built her consid ...

The AEV/AEO/ESSA Technology Working Group gathered at the NEC Birmingham on June 28 2017 for its first meeting of the year with Murray Dickson of NEC in the chair and 15 members in attendance. Dickson ...

Built upon Trevor Foley's extensive network and long-standing relationships across the global events industry, tfconnect is a strategic partner for organisers, venues and suppliers. Trevor is a mine o ...