EGA PRESS RELEASE - FORUM DELLA COMMUNICAZIONE
June 2008: The first ‘Forum della Comunicazione’ took place in Rome last May 2008. EGA Professional Congress Organisers was one of the main technical sponsors and they worked as Organising Secretariat for the event. The first edition of this meeting had the big aim to gather in Rome, for the first time, all the Communication players coming from: companies, public institutions, universities and associations. Click here for full press release.

Pictured below is the Ega desk at the Forum.





TOUR HOSTS WIN FOUR MEA AWARDS
May 2008: INCON's partner in Australia, Tour Hosts, scooped four awards at this year's Meeting & Events Australia (MEA) National Awards for Excellence. Tour Hosts founder and Managing Director, Roslyn McLeod OAM, accepted awards for the Meeting of the Year less than 500 Delegates, Meeting of the Year more than 500 Delegates, and Meetings Management - 8 or more Employees.
Roslyn was also awarded The Outstanding Contribution Award for an Individual.
For full press release Click here

Pictured below are Roslyn McLeod and staff with the four MEA awards





INCON AT IMEX 2008
The INCON stand, once again, was the single busiest stand at IMEX recording well in excess of 1250 distinct visitors. All INCON partners were on hand to present their new campaign “We put you in control” to organisers of association conferences and corporate meetings. Unprecedented visitor numbers were attracted to the stand by a clear and unambiguous message – operating your congress or event with an INCON partner puts you in control.

We also conducted a straw poll to determine which aspect of congress or meeting management poses the most challenge to planners. Of the 6 possible “challenges”, the majority of respondents stated that “Destination Selection” was the most difficult obstacle to overcome, followed by “Budget Management”.

The partners of INCON would again like to commend Ray Bloom and Paul Flackett for another wonderful IMEX. with lots of business taking place over the three days of the Exhibition. INCON would like to thank Abbitt Meeting Support and Dorier SA for their contribution to the success of the Internet Cafe at IMEX.

INCON HOLD THEIR BOD MEETING AND UNIVERSITY IN SYDNEY
February 2008: INCON held the first Board of Directors meeting of 2008 in Sydney. Sydney is the city of our Australian partner Tour Hosts and Roslyn McLeod planned a wonderful social itinerary for the partners which included a seaplane trip to Palm Beach where we had lunch at Jonah's restaurant. However, the highlight of our visit was our attendance at The Sydney Opera House where we were priviliged to see a production of Puccini's La Boheme.

Our thanks to the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre who hosted the INCON partners to a fabulous evening in their wonderful location in Darling Harbour.

The theme for the INCON University in Sydney was 'Project Managers' . The university was attended by project managers from many of our global offices.

Pictured below are some of the INCON partners at Palm Beach. Please click here to see further photos.

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EGA GLOBE2008 AND PRESENCE AT IMEX
Ega Professional Conference Organisers have been involved for years in different educational activities in the MICE and tourism markets. Click here to read more about Ega's involvement in GLOBE2008 and here to see an Claudia Golinelli as speaker.

Ega were actively involved in IMEX 2008 and issued this in the run up to the show. Pictured below are the Ega staff in their offices in Rome:

EGA ORGANISE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PROTOCOL
November 2007: INCON partner Studio Ega, have issued a press release following the success of the 8th Congress of Protocol held in Rome.The image below show the speakers' table at the conference


CHANGES IN ICS B.V. NETHERLANDS
Press Release November 2007: ICS – New appointments: Jorge Castex and Magdalena Fraga, owners of International Conference Services BV (ICS) and well-known within IAPCO and the congress industry, have decided to step down.
In the future they will act as consultants to ICS. Jerry Gaspersz, 17 years in the congress industry, was appointed Managing director. Huguette Andreoli, also not an unfamiliar person within the congress industry, deputy manager, and Babette Schmidt, previous head of the PAOG Course- and Congress Organization of the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, director of conferences.


INCON BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND UNIVERSITY IN DEAUVILLE
September 2007: The INCON Group met in Deauville for the last board of directors meeting of 2007 under the Chairmanship of Inge Hanser. We also held our annual INCON University there - a little later in the year than usual.. The theme this year was Human Resource Management with Roslyn McLeod as Dean.

Pictured below are the partners and university participants on the steps outside the Cote Royal Restaurant in Deauville. For more photos click here . Our thanks to Mathilde Rose and the Lucien Barriere Group who sponsored a drinks reception and dinner for the INCON Group in their beautiful hotel in Deauville. We were honoured that the Chairman of France Congres and Mayor of Deauville, Mr Philippe Augier, gave us an hour from his very busy schedule to outline to us the history and attractions of Deauville

Inge Hanser with Mr Augier, Mayor of Deauville

INCON WELCOME THREE NEW PARTNERS
May 2007: INCON EXPANDS AGAIN!
INCON, following their Board of Directors' Meeting at IMEX, are delighted to announce that they have welcomed three new partners into their group; AC&C, AIM S.p.A. and SERENAS.

Bob Guy & Inge Hanser, the Co-Chairs of INCON, comment: "We welcome our new partners and look forward to a future of working with them and their staff. This expansion strengthens our presence in the global market and we feel that the influx of new experience will open up opportunities for us all. " The following gives a brief description of each company:

- SERENAS Group: Mustafa Fethi Gurbuz is the Chairman of SERENAS and founded the company in 1999. Since that time he has built up his company from a staff number of 8 to 111. The SERENAS headquarters is based in Ankara in Turkey with branch offices in Istanbul and Antalya.

- Gianluca Buongiorno and Patrizia Semprebene Buongiorno are President and Managing Director respectively of AIM S.p.A. Their headquarters is in Italy. This company formed in 1997 and is now a vibrant entity which handles more than 2,000 events each year with a staff number of 200.

- Ms Anastasia Vatsika is the Managing Director of AC&C International S.A. She and Kyriakos Griveas formed the company in 2006 through the merger of C & C International and Amphitrion Congresses. AC&C have a multilingual staff of 65. Today this company is the leading conference organiser in Greece.