- Knowledge and Innovation
- Future Meeting Space
- 2025: Demographic Change Meets AI and Automation
- 2024: Business Events in a Transformative Era
- 2023: Creating Meaningful Events in Challenging Times
- 2022: Redefining Event Attendance
- 2021: Challenges of the Post-Corona Era
- 2019/20: The Future Role and Purpose of Events
- Research Phase 2017/18
- Research Phase 2015/16
Megatrends such as New Work, demographic change, and Artificial Intelligence are on their way to becoming firmly established in our daily lives. In the context of business events, these and other trends have already driven enormous developments in certain fields.
Research Results 2024: The Full Study
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Business Events in a Transformative Era
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Research Results 2024: Management Summary
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"New Potentials & Persisting Classics"
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In its 2024 research phase, the Future Meeting Space (FMS) innovation network evaluated which processes, products and services in the business events ecosystem will remain, disappear and newly emerge in the future. Together with experts, the FMS initiators – the GCB German Convention Bureau and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO – have today presented the key findings of their research in an online event titled “Emerging Opportunities, Persisting Classics, Fading Models: Business Events in a Transformative Era”.
A brief overview of the research program:
- What are the impacts of external influences on the ecosystem of events?
- What changes in customer and user needs can be identified?
- Which existing processes, services, structures, and business models are losing importance or becoming obsolete?
- What new market potentials, services, and products are emerging, and what novel business cases can be developed from them?