Events industry news
The Food Service Industry Expo moves from Excel to Olympia London in 2027
The Food Service Industry Expo will leave Excel London after 16 years and run in Olympia's Grand and National Halls on 28–29 September 2027, the first of three editions there.
Analysis for event organisers
What an ISO 14001 certificate tells an event buyer
ICC Wales now holds ISO 14001 through its parent group. The certificate is good evidence of an environmental management system, but it is not a carbon figure for your event.
Association congresses are won by host teams, not venues alone
Glasgow, Liverpool, Aberdeen and Newport have each credited recent wins to partnerships that reach well beyond the venue.
Choose the venue around the event, not the headline capacity
A room that fits the audience on paper can still fail the programme.
The questions that make agency proposals comparable
Before choosing a creative concept, establish what the agency is responsible for, who delivers it, how it is paid and how success will be judged.
Venue assessments
Liverpool Experience Campus for a conference that needs the whole site
The Labour Party Conference shows the waterfront campus can run as one connected event. Most organisers will book part of it, which raises different questions.
ICC Wales Main Hall for a conference with an exhibition
The published hall specification and a recent world congress support a serious shortlist, but layout, acoustics and whole-event flow still need testing.
The QEII Centre for a Westminster business event
A central location, a self-contained large-event floor and a wide range of room sizes are useful starting points, not a complete conference plan.
Venues and event agencies
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Recently added venues
Hope Street Hotel
You can hold a meeting for up to 130 theatre style, feed delegates from two in-house restaurants and put them up in 149 bedrooms, in nine rooms on Liverpool's Hope Street.
Royal Institution
You can run a conference for up to 400 in the Royal Institution's tiered Theatre and use nine more Mayfair rooms for dining and breakouts, five minutes' walk from Green Park.
Òran Mór
You can seat 360 theatre style or 276 for dinner in a converted West End church, with day delegate packages from £35 a head and Hillhead subway a few minutes' walk away.
Royal Lancaster London
You can hold up to 1,500 standing guests in either of two pillar-free ballrooms beside Hyde Park, with Lancaster Gate Tube next door and 411 bedrooms upstairs.
Recently added agencies
Indigo Splash
You get one Brighton supplier for staging, sound, lighting, LED screens and live streaming, with its own engineers delivering, running and de-rigging the kit across Brighton, London and the South East.
Maximillion
You can hand one Edinburgh and London team your venue search, delegate registration, AV and on-the-day running, from conferences of twenty to a thousand delegates to awards nights and team building.
Sterling Event Group
You get sound, lighting, screens, staging, rigging and power from one Manchester team with more than 130 in-house specialists, or you can dry hire its own equipment.
Vision Events Glasgow
You get sound, lighting, screens, power and on-the-day crew from one Glasgow team with a 24-hour on-call service, for conferences, award dinners, exhibitions and hybrid events across Scotland and the UK.
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News
The latest reporting on venues, agencies, suppliers and the leaders making decisions across the sector. Each story sets out the practical consequence for event professionals, clients and attendees.
Analysis
Analysis looks beyond a launch headline or an attendance total: event management, audience needs, accessibility, environmental and sustainable-event claims, and what the evidence changes about your next meeting, conference or exhibition.
Assessments
Each assessment tests one venue against one kind of event, such as a conference with an exhibition, using its room layouts, access and published facilities, and says whether it rests on a visit, an interview or desk research.
Directory
Profiles of UK conference venues and event agencies, searchable by name, city and service, linked to the reporting that mentions them.