Additionally, this year’s ECA Legislative Action Day will be held in conjunction with the Lippman Connects Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF), a one-day information-sharing and networking event for leaders at associations and independent organizers taking place May 31 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. In recognition of this partnership, ECA announced Lippman Connects as one of its 2023 Legislative Action Day platinum sponsors.  

When Lippman Connects and Choose Chicago first partnered to host the Exhibit Sales Roundtable (ESR) and Attendee Acquisition Roundtable (AAT) in Chicago, executives, managers, sales professionals, and marketers supported both events with resounding enthusiasm. Not surprisingly, ESR and AAR are coming back to the McCormick Place complex in 2023.

ESR will be June 22 at the Marriott Marquis Chicago at McCormick Place. AAR will be July 27 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.

ESR is an information exchange and networking experience for exhibition and convention professionals who are responsible for selling and servicing exhibit space and sponsorships. AAR offers a similar experience for attendee marketing professionals.
 

US-based live events studio Connectiv Holdings CEO Jay Weintraub and Courtney Muller, chief corporate development officer, Connectiv, (and president of Manifest) have a different perspective on business events. Weintraub began: “Many of our events bring people together to change the status quo and facilitate innovation within their industries. I don’t know if I would call us disruptors. In some ways, we are the world’s best incrementalists.”

While speaking with Jay and Courtney, who will take the stage at the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) in Washington, DC, 31 May, their passion is clear: Make everyone at their events feel special, through the connections they make, exposure to industry innovations, educational offerings – right down to the types of food and drink they serve.

ARLINGTON, VA - The 22nd annual Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) will also be the 6th annual TechDemo, featuring event-ready technology demonstrations geared to non-tech executives. ECEF will be held at the Grand Hyatt in Washington D.C. on May 31, 2023.

On May 31 in Washington D.C., Fernando Fischer, President of Americas for RX, will explain this game-changing innovation when he delivers the Keynote Address at the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF).

Titled Return on Expectation: The Better Customer Satisfaction Metric, Fischer's presentation will share the strategy, vision, and evolution of value-based selling.

The ECA Legislative Action Day will be held in conjunction with the Lippman Connects Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF), which will take place on Wednesday, May 31. ECEF is an information-sharing and networking event for leaders at associations and independent organizers, and ECA is pleased to recognize Lippman Connects as one of its 2023 Legislative Action Day platinum sponsors.

“It is imperative for our industry to be heard on Capitol Hill, and ECEF pledges to do all it can to support ECA in this all-important initiative,” adds Sam Lippman, President of Lippman Connects and producer of ECEF.

Additionally, the 2023 ECA Legislative Action Day will be held in conjunction with the Lippman Connects Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF), a one-day information-sharing and networking event for leaders at associations and independent organizers taking place May 31 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. In recognition of this partnership, ECA announced Lippman Connects as one of its 2023 Legislative Action Day platinum sponsors.  

“It is imperative for our industry to be heard on Capitol Hill, and ECEF pledges to do all it can to support ECA in this all-important initiative,” said Sam Lippman, Lippman Connects president and producer of ECEF. 

Once again executives at independent and association event organisers will convene on the Wednesday after Memorial Day in the US for the Exhibition and Convention (ECEF). The annual one-day experience will be held on 31 May, 2023, at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC, although a networking reception will kick off the action on 30 May.

Once again executives at independent and association organizers will convene on the Wednesday after Memorial Day for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum. The annual one-day experience, better known as ECEF, will be held on May 31, 2023, at the Grand Hyatt in Washington D.C.

A networking reception on May 30 will kick off the action.

Lippman Connects has announced the launch of the Midsize Show Roundtable (MSR), to debut on 17 November at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

VisitPITTSBURGH and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, who will be the destination hosts, have stated that MSR will be an information-sharing and networking experience for event industry executives, directors, and managers. Their target audience makes decisions for shows with less than 125,000 net square feet of exhibit space.

Before the event, MSR participants will be able to network at the Welcome Reception and Dinner on the evening of 16 November. On the morning of the event, MSR clients can attend a breakfast and an expert keynote address.

 Lippman Connects announced today the launch of Midsize Show Roundtable (MSR) to debut on November 17 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. VisitPITTSBURGH and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center will be the destination hosts.

MSR will be an information-sharing and networking experience for executives, directors, show managers, marketing managers, sales managers, and department managers making decisions for shows with less than 125,000 net square feet of exhibit space. Participants will get to know each other at a Welcome Reception and Dinner on the evening of November 16.

As the trade show industry returns to face-to-face interactions, the question remains, how will the pandemic permanently change the course of live events and trade shows? This year’s Exhibition & Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., held June 1 on Global Exhibitions Day, focused on sharing insights into the challenges facing the business events industry, as well as what the future holds for trade shows and exhibitions.

There was also even more emphasis at ECEF 2022 on networking than in years past, as 200 event attendees mingled at receptions and between sessions.

Sam Lippman, of Lippman Connects, producers of the annual ECEF Conference said a few weeks before the 2022 edition, taking place in Washington, DC 1 June, that it was on target to match the sold out 2017-2019 editions.

ECEF attracts C-level exhibition organisers from the For-Profit and Association worlds, along with top executive suppliers to the industry. 

The day-long conference begins with 5 Points in 5 Minutes, where Lippman delivers a data-driven update/trend identification on the US exhibition industry. Freeman has partnered with ECEF for a sixth time to provide the data. 

Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) visited the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington DC, to deliver a full day of networking opportunities, accentuated by provocative C-level presentations, for executives from independent and association organisers of B2B exhibitions and conventions. All participants celebrated GED in a video.

The biggest Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) since before the Covid era rallied 200 executives on 1 June, 2022, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC. The event is traditional an opportunity for independent and association event leaders to network and exchange insights.

Sam Lippman, president of organisers Lippman Connects, set the tone and pace for the day with his annual ‘Five data points in five minutes’. Sourced from research by Freeman, Lippman revealed the top challenges facing the industry. Coming in at the top of the list was Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) concerns.

The exuberance of the exhibition and convention industry was on full display as 200 executives came together on June 1, 2022, for the biggest Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) since before the Covid era. Held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. for the first time since 2008, ECEF is renowned as the premier annual opportunity for independent and association event leaders to network and exchange insights.

Sam Lippman, President, Lippman Connects, set the tone and pace for the day with his annual “5 Data Points in 5 Minutes”. Sourced from groundbreaking research by Freeman, Lippman revealed the top challenges facing the industry. Coming in at the top of the list was Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) concerns.

With the exhibition and convention business in recovery mode, many executives are mindful of the need to be better prepared for an extended crisis. Preparedness and optimism are watchwords dominating the programme for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF), which arrives at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC on 1 June. 

Sam Lippman, president, Lippman Connects, which organises the ECEF, said: “It’s not too early to take account of the most practical success strategies.” He stressed that ECEF’s emphasis was on top-to-top networking. Sessions, he said, would be shorter, highly focused, and more interactive. “This is C-level content that will get executives talking and sharing,” Lippman added. 

The June programme features insights from 13 exhibition and convention industry notables, including a keynote, Business of Belonging: Transformative Events in Extraordinary Times, by Erin Uritis, CEO of Out & Equal. She promises to reveal how the organisation grew membership and sponsorships during the pandemic. 

With the exhibition and convention business in recovery mode, executives are mindful of the need to be better prepared for an extended crisis. Preparedness and optimism dominate the program for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF), coming to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. on June 1.

In announcing the program, Sam Lippman, President, Lippman Connects, said, “It’s not too early to take account of the most practical success strategies.” Because the ECEF emphasis is on top-to-top networking, Lippman stressed that each session will be shorter, highly focused, and more interactive. “This is C-level content that will get executives talking and sharing,” Lippman added.

 

For more than half a decade, Lippman Connects has been benchmarking event industry performance criteria in conjunction with its Roundtable series: Attendee Acquisition Roundtable (AAR), Exhibit Sales Roundtable (ESR), and Large Show Roundtable (LSR). Pledging to continue this important initiative on behalf of Roundtable clients and the exhibition and convention industry, Lippman Connects and EVOLIO Marketing have announced they will jointly conduct specialized research in conjunction with the eight Roundtables planned for 2022.

• ESR, February 17, Arlington, VA (DC Metro)
• AAR, March 10, Arlington, VA
• LSR, April 7, Las Vegas, NV
• ESR, June 30, Chicago, IL
• AAR, July 28, Chicago, IL
• LSR, Summer (To Be Announced)
• ESR, September 29, Arlington, VA
• AAR, October 27, Arlington, VA

ECEF attendees tried out a contact-tracing wearable that helps event organizers measure and communicate COVID-19 exposure risk to participants.

The Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) met in person for the first time in two and a half years on Nov. 3 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va. In addition to celebrating the event’s 20th anniversary, the 182 independent and association trade show executives at the show celebrated the opportunity to be face to face again with animated discussions and avid listening to the four-one-hour educational sessions. Another 19 tuned in remotely for the livestreamed broadcast on Freeman’s OnlineEvent platform, which also hosted an online ECEF experience that ran from Nov. 1–5.

Here are five top takeaways from this year’s event:

1) Renew your focus on networking.
2) How to recover when your biggest asset becomes your biggest liability risk — and how to rebalance revenue sources moving forward. 
3) Create FOMO for forward momentum. 
4) Don’t be afraid of change.
5) Understanding digital event data is imperative. 

Although the pandemic continues, signs of structural change and growth offer optimism for executives at association and independent organizers. Several points of light will illuminate the stage of the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF).

For its 20th anniversary on Wednesday, November 3, 2021, ECEF moves just across the Potomac to the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. Totally reconfigured to prioritize both safety and top-to-top networking, ECEF 2021 requires clients to be vaccinated and wear a mask.

The trade-only event for qualified bar and beverage industry professionals only will be requiring proof of vaccination for entry.

As well as being able to prove they are 21 or over to gain admittance to Bar Convent Brooklyn, visitors must provide documentation demonstrating trade affiliation and evidence of being vaccinated against coronavirus.

Sam Lippman of Lippman Connects and producer of the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) in the USA shared his take on the development with EW: “Communities/industries/professions that require proof of vaccination (such as bars and restaurants in NYC) continue this requirement to participate in their events. So medical events such as HIMSS and HLTH are requiring proof of vaccination while a construction show, World of Concrete, and a gift show, NY NOW do not.”

Lippman Connects, a US-based exclusive event organiser, has announced the Large Show Roundtable (LSR), its networking and information sharing event, will take place 19 August, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The organiser confirmed that all four of its remaining Lippman Connects events for 2021 will be in-person or hybrid experiences.

Lippman Connects also announced that EVOLIO Marketing will be its exclusive provider of research for LSR, ESR, and AAR in 2021.

 

Starting with Large Show Roundtable (LSR) on August 19 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The Breakfast Keynote spotlight will be shared by Michelle Edmonson, AMT Senior Director – Events and Content, and Bob Ryley, Senior Vice President Exhibition Sales, GES. 

The remaining four Lippman Connects events for 2021 will be in-person or hybrid experiences.

At the same time, Lippman Connects announced that EVOLIO Marketing will be the exclusive provider of research for LSR, ESR, and AAR in 2021.