Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!
R&C Market Research Company has pleasure in inviting you to participate in the second Europe+Asia Event Forum (EFEA), which will take place, on 23 -25 January 2012 in St. Petersburg.
EFEA is a communication site for the events industry professionals from St. Petersburg, Russian regions and foreign countries, that provides an opportunity to establish international relations, attract investment and expand business networking in the Russian and global event-industry market.
The first Europe+Asia Event Forum show the high interest of the leading market players. All in all the EFEA 2012 gathered over 260 industry specialists from Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, as well as from the Baltic and Scandinavian countries, Great Britain and Germany, Spain, India and the USA and others. Representatives of the leading exhibition companies of the world, such as Messe Frankfurt, UBM, Messe Düsseldorf, Fiera Milano, Deutsche Messe, ITE Group, as well as the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI), the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (RUEF) took part in the Forum.
The Europe+Asia Event Forum is an innovative event comprising congress and business, exhibition, and entertainment sections.
The Forum program in 2013 will include the following items:
Plenary Session and Panel discussion, where participants will discuss changes that occur in every sector of the business meetings industry.
- Round tables and Panel sessions on following topics: Exhibition industry, Meeting industry, Business tourism, Territory marketing.
- Regional sessions: discussions of possibilities, peculiarities and challenges that event industry in these key territories face.
- Russian-German Session in cooperation with Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA): discussions of the urgent issues related the operating of German exhibition organisers in Russia; education in the exhibition industry (professional experience exchange between Russian and German managers).
- «Event technology village» exhibition, offering an opportunity to learn about new products and services of event industry on-line.
- On-line exhibition on the web-site of the Forum.
- Matchmaking Centre provides opportunities for individual meetings.
- Award of the leaders of the congress and exhibition business.
Participation in the Forum is a guarantee that you will learn all about the most recent trends of the exhibition and congress industry, gain a maximum of useful and topical information, and it will also provide you with a chance to present your own plans and ideas to the professional community and expand your business network!
R&C is a research-driven marketing consulting company specialising in the events industry, which has been operating in the Russian market for nearly 20 years now. We do detailed research into the events industry, including data collection and analysis and identification of industry trends, develop concepts for any type of professional congress event and help guide projects from the initial concept through to completion. 
