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AHUA Conference Success for Conference Aston Event Management Launch

AHUA Conference Success for Conference Aston Event Management Launch | July 2010

A leading Midlands conference centre has launched its complete event management service with a flagship conference for senior university managers. Conference Aston hosted its first fully managed conference, for the Association of Heads of University Administration (AHUA) in April. The team at Conference Aston handled every aspect of the event, from creating the web pages for the conference...

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New Enterprise Centre Opens at the University of Derby

New Enterprise Centre Opens at the University of Derby | July 2010

The University of Derby Enterprise Centre has now opened. Located on the edge of Derby city centre, close to the popular Cathedral Quarter of the city, the brand new facility has various sized meeting rooms, an IT training suite and an Executive Boardroom available for conferences, meetings, and training events. Rooms can cater for meetings from 10 people to 190 with competitive rates...

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Sir Bob Geldof Delivers Keynote Speech in Bristol

Sir Bob Geldof Delivers Keynote Speech in Bristol | July 2010

Sir Bob Geldof spoke passionately at the annual ICT conference held at the UWE Exhibition and Conference Centre on the subject of government funding for technology in UK schools. He also explained his personal interest in parental communications, and why schools should embrace new technology to improve the welfare and safety of their children. Although best known for the 1985 Live Aid...

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Budding Designers See Their Ideas Transformed

Budding Designers See Their Ideas Transformed | July 2010

Five children from Whitegate School in Clifton visited Absolute Design in West Bridgford on Wednesday 7th July to see their design of a logo to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the East Midlands Conference Centre transformed. ‘Keiths Team' from Whitegate Primary School were the winners of a competition launched by Nottingham Conferences in February of this year. They had already...

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Olympic Displacement Effect Drives Business for Birmingham in 2012 and Beyond

Olympic Displacement Effect Drives Business for Birmingham in 2012 and Beyond | July 2010

Companies pushed out of South East and London venues by the ‘Olympic displacement' effect are flocking to the Midlands to hold their events. But Southern conferences centres and hotels forced to turn down long term clients in favour of Olympic business risk losing out longer term warned a Birmingham conference centre. Companies who have had 2012 bookings turned down are now taking...

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