Changing requirements

Changing requirements

by | 20.09.2021 | CIM 2021/3, Focus, Industry

CIM: Mr Nijenhuis, do we need to rethink event venues?Viktor Nijenhuis: Since the pandemic, there has been a huge transformation in the planning and organisation of events. Right from the outset, we saw that there was a necessity to run virtual events. The quality of...
Design, space, experience

Design, space, experience

by | 20.09.2021 | CIM 2021/3, Focus, Industry

Rethinking. Finally, there seems to be space again for meeting face to face and sharing knowledge at in-person events. Offered as alternatives, virtual and hybrid formats can never fully replace a culture of live experiences and encounters. But, on the pro side, their...
Things need to advance quickly now

Things need to advance quickly now

by | 25.05.2021 | CIM 2021/1, Focus

CIM: Ms Weizsäcker, what has been the strategy of the European trade fair industry in the face of the Covid 19 crisis?Barbara Weizsäcker: Right from the outset of the pandemic, the European trade fair industry has been supportive and played its part, providing Covid...
Stay safe and visible

Stay safe and visible

by | 19.05.2021 | #eventprofsunite, CIM 2021/1, Focus, Industry

Perspective. Responding to short-term developments with a plethora of tactics is not a strategy, commented political scientist Herfried Münkler on the TV show “Hart aber Fair” on 29 March 2021. Precaution is the central challenge, which cannot be mastered by a...
Systematic lobbying needed

Systematic lobbying needed

by | 08.02.2021 | CIM 2020/5, Focus

CIM: The #AlarmstufeRot initiative you launched organised its third major protest on 28 October 2020 with the aim of rescuing the event industry. How were you able to ensure that the hygiene requirements were met?Tom Koperek: The German event industry’s workforce is...
Light and shadow

Light and shadow

by | 20.01.2021 | CIM 2020/5, Focus

In this together. “No one is safe until we are all safe,” was the résumé of the 12th World Health Summit (WHS), which mobilised more than 6,000 participants from over 100 countries taking part online from 25 to 27 October 2020. “Only by working closely together, we...