Last week, Grant Thornton Stax published its annual Top 20 organiser rankings, and it looks like its number one is only getting bigger, as today Informa announced its agreed acquisition of Clarion. According to the report, the Top 20 organisers brought in $11.7bn between them last year, increasing around 14% from the year prior. Informa…

Bradley James Cole has spent the past decade building his career in B2B events and business intelligence, working his way from conference production through to his current role as Global Head of Business Development at Green Street where he leads commercial strategy across a global portfolio of real estate, infrastructure, and project finance events.  …

Private equity’s appetite for B2B events shows no sign of slowing, and this week it found its way to one of the fastest growing corners of the industry. On 17 August, it was announced that UK based private equity firm Bowmark Capital has acquired a majority shareholding in InfraXmedia from Opus Origin, a private investment…

Conference production has long been a career path that you will hear people say they “fell into.” With many producers coming from research-heavy, academic backgrounds, it is no surprise that they so naturally excel at desktop research and agenda writing, but a new path for producers is arising, and that is the one of personal…

Adam Plom, VP, Head of Content – Europe at Shoptalk has had a striking 13 year-long career in events, and not solely because of his success at Shoptalk. His path has run from starting out at a founder-led business, where he was handed a lot of responsibility from the jump, to a stretch of freelance…

Bradley James Cole has spent the past decade building his career in B2B events and business intelligence, most recently as Global Head of Business Development at Green Street, where he now leads a growing team across a global portfolio of real estate, infrastructure, and project finance events. Along the way, he’s hired, managed, and led…