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Industry Associations & Community Partners

The events industry is supported by a wide range of associations, networks and professional communities that help drive industry standards, career development, education and collaboration. Below are some of the organisations helping support event professionals and shape the future of the industry.

Associations & networks

Event community partners

Connect with the organisations championing the industry and its people.

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The Power of Events

An industry initiative showcasing the value, diversity and career opportunities within the UK events industry, improving awareness, accessibility and long-term growth.

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Meetings Industry Association

Supports and connects professionals across the meetings, events and conference sector through education, networking, standards and professional development.

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Network of Women in Events

NOWIE supports women working within events through mentorship, networking, education and career development initiatives.

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Women in Exhibitions

A networking and development community supporting women working across the exhibitions and events sector globally.

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Association of Event Venues

Represents major UK event venues - supporting best practice, operational standards, safety, sustainability and knowledge sharing across the venue community.

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ABPCO

The UK's leading association for professional conference organisers, promoting best practice, education and collaboration across business events and conferencing.

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Association of Event Organisers

Represents organisers of trade shows, consumer events and exhibitions in the UK - supporting standards, advocacy, networking and professional development.

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Events Industry Alliance

A collective body representing organisers, venues and suppliers - promoting the sector, influencing policy and providing data, research and advocacy.

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ESSA

The Event Supplier & Services Association represents suppliers of goods and services to the UK events industry - promoting best practice, standards and sustainability.

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beam

The UK trade association for business events, meetings and incentive travel - connecting agencies, venues and suppliers through networking, education and advocacy.

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Production Futures

Supporting the next generation of live event, production and technical talent through events, training and connections with employers across the industry.

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Insights

From the Live blog

Industry Insights
The progression paradox: why junior event talent is getting stuck

Ask junior event professionals what they want from their careers and two answers come back consistently: flexibility and progression. Both are completely reasonable. But there’s a tension between them that the industry isn’t talking honestly – and it’s leaving a generation of coordinators stuck and frustrated. Events is still learned around other people More than […]

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Industry Insights
Six years on from COVID, the events industry still has a technical talent crisis – and it’s about to get worse

Across most of the events industry, the story of 2026 is a candidate-short market. But nowhere is the shortage sharper – or more structural – than in technical production and scenic roles. Speak to anyone recruiting in this space and the pattern is stark: a handful of the same candidates moving between the same employers, […]

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Salary Guide
Is AI inflating salary expectations within the events industry?

Speak to anyone recruiting junior event talent right now and you’ll hear a version of the same story: a candidate with a year or two of experience asking for a salary that sits well above the market – and holding firm on it. It would be easy to dismiss this as unrealistic ambition, but that […]

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Hiring
What does a healthy recruitment process actually look like?

With insight from Jenny McCarthy, Senior Candidate Manager at Live Recruitment   The events industry talks endlessly about the talent shortage. It talks far less about the number of brilliant candidates lost not to competitors, but to the hiring process itself. Right now, we’re seeing strong candidates walk away from roles they were excited about […]

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Live Recruitment is one of the UK's leading specialist event recruitment agencies, supporting professionals across event management, production, experiential, exhibitions, conferences, technical production, venues, marketing and creative sectors. Our Candidate Resource Hub has been created to help event professionals access career advice, interview guidance, volunteering opportunities, training routes and industry insights to support long-term career growth within the events industry.