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The Power of Events has held its inaugural advisory board meeting, bringing together the 'most unique' range of event leaders from across the sector.
The group of senior leaders invited to join the advisory board represents the broadest ever collaborative from across the UK events industry, according to The Power of Events founder Rick Stainton.
“We’ve quite deliberately invited the most unique range of event leaders as possible from across the seven sectors, the venues and supplier services base, in an attempt to achieve the most inclusive representation of our industry as possible around the table,” said Rick Stainton, founder of The Power of Events.
“In developing a showcase for everyone working in or aspiring to learn more about the UK event industry, the mission has always been driven by listening to what people from the industry have suggested. The new Advisory Board brings together a huge amount of experience and expertise to deploy the shaping of long-term strategic plans.”
The inaugural advisory board meeting on Thursday 28 November comes ahead of The Power of Events' two year anniversary and at the end of its first full year of operation. At launch, The Power of Events relied on action groups and a taskforce to gather suggestions for projects and initiatives. The Event Industry Insight App, careers hub, and schools engagement programme were all developed from suggestions shared by these groups.
“Our aim is to now evolve this input and industry feedback from the advisory board to develop our mission and continue to focus on the best way of showcasing the UK events industry - always designed by the industry for the industry,” said The Power of Events director Simon Hughes. “We now have online Open Taskforce meetings too, which anyone working in the industry can join and contribute to. The whole team have been really delighted by the depth of support that we've received, both in the open taskforce meetings and with the new advisory board. We'll be posting details of the advisory board onto the main platform early in 2025 and it will continue to grow with new members to keep it dynamic and relevant to our ever changing work.”
Business leaders from the following companies and organisations are members of The Power of Events advisory board:
80Six; ACC Liverpool; Adlib; Arena Group; Association of Black Event Professionals; AEV/EIA; ASM Global; Better Green Group; BlackDeer Festival; Bournemouth 7s Festival; British Cycling Events; Celtic Collection/ICC Wales; d&b Solutions; DRPG; EICC; EIF; Ethix Management & Live Event Freelancers Forum; Excel London; Gallowglass; GL Events; Global Infusion Group; Goodwood Festival; The Human Network/Identity; IMEX; LIVE; London Marathon Events; Losberger Deboer; Meetings Industry Association; NAWP; NOEA; Newbury Racecourse; Notting Hill Carnival; NTIA; PLASA; UKCMA; Vision 2025; VISIT Belfast; Wasserman.
