Independent, Scottish-owned professional conference organiser (PCO) with teams in Edinburgh and Glasgow, working mainly for academic, scientific and medical associations and public sector bodies.
What the organiser publishes
In Conference says it takes on the logistical and day-to-day management of a conference so that the client society can concentrate on the scientific or academic programme. It lists conference marketing, sponsorship and exhibition sales and delegate registration among its work, and offers a separate association management service for administering and growing memberships.
It says it has organised hundreds of events of between 100 and 5,000 delegates in the UK, Europe, North America and Asia. Its homepage gives 1989 as the year it started. Offices are at Q Court, Quality Street, Edinburgh, and Queen Street, Glasgow.
Questions for your brief
- Who holds the venue and hotel contracts, the society or the PCO, and who carries the financial risk if registrations fall short?
- How is the PCO paid: fixed fee, per-delegate fee, commission or a share of sponsorship income?
- Which registration and abstract-management systems are used, and who owns the delegate data afterwards?