IAEM: New Name, New Numbers

Last week we reported that the International Association for Exhibition Management had about doubled its membership in 2006, to more than 6,000 members. While attendance at last week’s Expo! Expo! annual meeting, held at the San Diego convention center, didn’t double, IAEM’s president, Steven Hacker, CAE, said at a press conference that approximately 2,300 people came to the event this year, up from last year’s 1,926. (Final attendance numbers for this year’s conference won’t be released