Letter from the CEO
Dear EIC Board, Council and Volunteer Leaders, Our Year in Review was created to provide you with a celebratory look back at 2024, highlighting the achievements and milestones of our 75 th Anniversary Year. While it was an extraordinary year of growth and impact, enabled by our shared commitment to the global business events industry, we know that there is important work to be done. This note and resource is being delivered to you as we grapple with another climate-related natural disaster — the on-going fires in Los Angeles. We are all heartbroken by the devastation, while also finding comfort in witnessing the outpouring of support from across our industry. As we have become adept at living with a backdrop of humanitarian crises, events have remained relevant demonstrating our sector’s resilience. We continue to consider how best given this reality to honour our values and our commitment to supporting personal and professional well-being during heavy times. .
We recognize that while we cannot solve for all these realities, we can have an impact through our commitment to our industry and our work to find ways to unify for maximum benefit and impact. This commitment led our Council through the year-long collaborative work on the Futures Landscape Study, which examined the issues and trends likely to shape the business events industry in the years to come. The resulting Futures Landscape Report — released in the coming weeks and created with the support of the SITE Foundation, Gaining Edge and IPSOS, a global leader in market research — will serve as an actionable guide to support future readiness. We are also nearing the final stages of the multi-year update to the CMP International Standards, a far-reaching project that has leveraged the expertise of more 1,000 CMP SMEs. The updates to the competencies and domains will help ensure CMPs are set for success in the modern events landscape. We will soon begin the same rigorous review of the EIC Sustainable Event Standards. In the year ahead, I look forward to the launch of a capital campaign in support of the important work of the EIC Foundation, the year-long rollout of the Futures Landscape Report, development of the next iteration of the Economic Significance Study, creation of an Equity and Inclusion Acceleration Guide for even professionals, growth of our CMP Scholarship programme, planning for the 2026 CMP Advance and much more.
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