The Durban International Convention Centre’s (ICC) CEO, Julie-May Ellingson, has been appointed as the Global Alliance’s first Chair.
Global Alliance is an international group of conference and exhibition centres that have joined forces to offer a joined-up conference and event experience to international associations and event organisers whose events rotate around the world.
Global Alliance members include: The Durban ICC (South ica); Adelaide Convention Centre (Australia); Centro Banamex (Mexico); Arena and Convention Centre Liverpool (UK); and Advantage Boston (USA).
“Providing a detailed handover of a major international conference is a huge benefit to conference organisers, saving time and making for an altogether more professional start to their event,” Ellingson says. “In addition to providing this seamless transition, Global Alliance members hold international venue accreditations and guarantee an international quality standard across their venues.”
Ellingson joined the Durban ICC in 2011 having spent 10 years heading up the Strategic Projects Unit of eThekwini Municipality, where she was responsible for all major infrastructural projects and all large-scale national and international events hosted in the city of Durban. She is a town and regional planner and development economist by profession.
Global Alliance will launch its new website and creative identity at an international breakfast event on 15 October 2013 at the IMEX America exhibition in Las Vegas.
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