Branding expert Julie Cottineau provided ECEF attendees with ideas for thriving in disrupted times.

The Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum, originally scheduled for May 27, will be held Nov. 18 as a re-imagined, virtual experience. The transition from live to digital is never easy, and the annual information-sharing and networking event decided to partner with Freeman to bring it altogether. Among its many functions, Freeman will provide the ECEF with a virtual platform and will also serve as the show’s exclusive Gold sponsor.

Originally scheduled for May 27 and postponed due to the pandemic, Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) will now be held Nov. 18 as a retooled virtual experience. 

To aid in transitioning the annual information-sharing and networking event for independent organizers and leaders of associations, Sam Lippman, ECEF producer and president of Lippman Connects, has partnered with Freeman. As part of the partnership, Freeman will provide the virtual event platform and serve as the exclusive gold sponsor.

Following a nearly six month postponement due to the worldwide pandemic, Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) returns as a completely retooled virtual experience on 18 November, 2020.

ECEF selected Freeman to provide the virtual event platform for the event and also named Freeman as exclusive Gold Sponsor.

After a nearly six month postponement due to the worldwide pandemic, Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) returns as a completely retooled virtual experience on November 18, 2020. After a careful review of available options, ECEF selected Freeman to provide the virtual event platform. In addition, ECEF named Freeman as the exclusive Gold Sponsor.

After a nearly six month postponement due to the worldwide pandemic, Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) returns as a completely retooled virtual experience on November 18, 2020. After a careful review of available options, ECEF selected Freeman to provide the virtual event platform. In addition, ECEF named Freeman as the exclusive Gold Sponsor

The pandemic may have put the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum on hold last spring, but ECEF Producer Sam Lippman of Lippman Connects has spent the intervening six months completely revamping the show for a November 18 debut on Freeman’s OnlineEvent Pro platform. Freeman also will be the exclusive Gold Sponsor of the online event.

Trade Show Executive Chairman and President and CEO of United Service Companies, Rick Simon, served as the Subject Matter Expert for a recent digital summit on “Safety is Job One,” hosted by Lippman Connects and its new informational series, Digital Summit: 90 Minutes on the Most Urgent Issues.  

Lippman Connects announces that the Large Show Roundtable (LSR) scheduled for Thursday, August 20, 2020, will be held virtually via Zoom. 

What is within exhibition organizers’ power to produce safe face-to-face conventions in a COVID-19 world? That was the question explored in a recent Digital Summit, a weekly 90-minute live video chat information exchange series hosted by Sam Lippman, president and founder of Lippman Connects. 

Lippman Connects recently sold out the first of its new Digital Summits, which were created to facilitate the peer-to-peer exchange of information among event professionals in a virtual setting.

The 2020 Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF), taking place May 27 in Washington, D.C., includes six presentations featuring nine executives from associations and independent organizers.

The 2020 Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) program includes six presentations featuring nine executives from associations and independent organizers.

[In Russian] Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF) producer Sam Lippman has announced two keynote speakers for the 2020 forum. Both speakers have different practical knowledge, visions, ideas that they will share with ECEF guests.

“Two CEOs will bring two very different experiences, perspectives, and messages to ECEF in 2020,” said Sam Lippman, President, Lippman Connects, in announcing the keynote speakers for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum.
 

“Two CEOs will bring two very different experiences, perspectives, and messages to ECEF in 2020,” said ECEF organiser Sam Lippman, President, Lippman Connects.

The latest ECEF Pulse Survey paints an interesting picture of an expo industry that, while still growing in key metrics, is starting to lose some of the postrecessionary momentum it has been enjoying in recent years.

Exhibition executives themselves expressed cautious optimism when polled prior to this year's Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum. More than half (52 percent) of the 201 respondents said they expected to see an increase in exhibitions in the year ahead, while 38 percent expected no change.

Introducing Farrington to the audience, ECEF facilitator Sam Lippman said: “You can stay ahead of a tidal wave and ride it or you can get crushed by it. Not only did she ride the tidal wave, she did it so successfully that her competitors were left behind.”

In the recently released 2019 ECEF Pulse report, produced annually by the Exhibition & Convention Executives Forum and Freeman, 50 percent of respondents forecast growing sponsorship sales, but the trend line for this forecast has been downward each year since a high of 63 percent in 2013.

Sam Lippman kicked off the program with his fast-paced “5 Data Points in 5 Minutes” — his takeaways from the 2019 ECEF Pulse research, the annual study of 200 C-level exhibition executives, conducted jointly with Freeman.

For the 2019 event, which drew over 42,000 to the Moscone Center, the strategy included six elements—some new, some pre-existing—which she shared with attendees at the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum in Washington, D.C., in May.

After a full day of quotable insights and revelations, Shapiro’s epiphany was most often cited as the favorite take-away of ECEF. Don Pazour, President and CEO, Access Intelligence, expressed it this way, “Business leaders must speak out!”

With 100 years of history and 65,000 attendees, the largest gathering of foodservice professionals in the world was now in the hands of media and events company Winsight. What was the NRA thinking?

Available 24/7 worldwide to answer any ECEF-related questions via SMS text, Sciensio’s Artificial Intelligence-driven EventBot went live on May 21 and provided attendees and exhibitors with 260 hours of real-time support before and during the event.