Conference & Meetings World Issue 100 | Page 6

News GLOBAL SNAPSHOT NORTH AMERICA ThinkOttawa launches in the Canadian capital Three of Ottawa’s pillar economic development organisations – Ottawa Tourism, Shaw Centre, and Invest Ottawa – are working together under a new programme. ThinkOttawa will bring more conferences and events to Canada’s capital by supporting local industry leaders in academia, government, charity and associations with their international conference bids. EUROPE UFI’s European Conference comes to Birmingham, UK UFI’s 2019 European Conference is taking place 15-17 May in Birmingham, UK. The theme of the event is ‘The Organisers’ Future’, and will focus on what’s in store for exhibition organisers in Europe and beyond. It will cover global opportunities from a European perspective, as well as focusing on the USA, China and Russia. MIDDLE EAST EUROPE ADNEC delivers US$929m for Abu Dhabi EU Presidency ‘trial run’ in Prague Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC) preparing for the EU Presidency in 2022 by holding a has announced the value of its direct and indirect ‘Presidency trial run’ at the Prague Congress impact on the Abu Dhabi economy in 2018 was Centre (PCC). The Government of the Czech Republic has been AED3.41bn (US$929m), taking the total value of its The event aimed to learn from the experience of contribution to the local economy since its inception the EU Presidency of Slovakia and Romania, and gave in 2005 to AED32bn. the venue an opportunity to present and test the ADNEC welcomed more than 2m visitors from audio-visual and communication technologies needed across the globe in 2018. 6 / CONFERENCE & MEETINGS WORLD for staging key EU meetings. / ISSUE 100