Tim Cobbold at UBM sets forth its future strategy with its Events First project – designed to acquire small conference / events business (where the numbers meet their criteria).

Read more here.

Interesting point: “The B2B events market is large, it’s worth $23bn (£14.4bn) each year and is growing at about 5% per annum”, and this is true whichever slice of the business events market you’re in; commercial events companies, corporates running your own business development or client events. It’s busy, and it’s growing.