These are just some of the comments we have received from participants:

Congrats on a wonderful launch in Asia, you must be very pleased….we were absolutely delighted to win.
Greg Healy, CEO, The Eventful Group

I feel the conference awards were conducted with the highest professionalism –clear guidelines, user friendly and above all a very responsive super team that deserves its own award.
Ashok Nath, CEO, Exedra Events

IIR Exhibition Pte Ltd were extremely proud to be involved in such a great event, particularly one that recognizes the hard work of our teams and industry colleagues.
Susan Elson, Exhibitions Director, IIR Exhibition Pte Ltd

Many thanks for an excellent conference – it was a wonderful event and I certainly got some take-aways for how we might improve out events.
Andy Nicol, Director Business Development - Asia | Hobsons Asia Pacific

The team felt that it was an honor to win the Best Operations Team Award. It was definitely a great achievement for us, and a motivating force to push us to organize better conferences in the future.
Kerina Chau, IBC Asia

Loved it – well done! Sincerely hope we can come back every year.
Dominic Duncan, Sales Director. Conferenz

Really enjoyable. I was surprised by the honesty and sharing of best practices by the speakers. Well done to the organisers.
Leon Kantor, Managing Director, WBR

Chris Carrol’s session on it’s own was worth coming for
Matt Mitchell, Head of Marketing, Incisive Media

Great job on organizing the Asian Conference Summit and Awards! It was really informative and a great place to network! I look forward to the next cycle in Singapore
Jo Chan, Strategic Accounts Manager, Asia Pacific Active Network International

Congratulations once again to you and your team for staging a successful inaugural Asian Conference Summit & Awards 2012. The Awards evening was spectacular and more importantly recognizing the Best in the industry.
Rosalind Ng, President, SACEOS

The Asian Conference Awards 2012 was an impressive experience. Being on 'the other side' was a great adventure and the top-notch content was highly inspiring. The organisers have done a brilliant job on both conference and the glamorous awards dinner. Immaculate to the highly sensitive eyes of the audience.
Patrick Schulze,
Director, Strategic Engagement, Global Initiatives

A big thank you for a wonderful conference and awards ceremony. It was very professionally run.
Christine Dorner Managing Director ICE Australia

Once again, we would like to congratulate you on a wonderful event and thanks for all the hard work. We are certainly looking forward to the event next year. Ernest Tan,Event Business Director, ace:daytons direct

Great Launch. Some good ideas and conversations. A must attend for the industry.
Mohit Sagar, Managing Director, Alphabet Media

An incredibly useful experience. It was great to meet players that are new to me and to hear them speak so candidly. TedX and Chris Caroll were particularly good but overall the standard was high. Good job!
Philip Doyle, Director, Marketforce.

It's about time the industry had a voice and an opportunity to challenge ourselves and celebrate our success. Well done!
Sue Toomey, Director, Events and Conferences, The Economist Group , Asia Pacific

Rave reviews for the inaugural event!

The Asian Conference Awards and Summit were launched to celebrate and reward excellence and innovation. Building on the success of the European version the event brought together, for the first time, all the key players in the Asian conference industry to network, share ideas and recognise achievement. The event in Singapore attracted over 200 professionals in total and promises to be the foundation of an annual event to bring the Asian conference industry together.

The event was considered a tremendous success by all parties involved.

Attendees at the summit were full of praise for the speakers and the subject matter and departed from the event full of ideas to put into practice.
Sponsors and supporters of the event were left with a wallet full of new contacts with which to potentially do business.
Award winners were given a real morale boost and returned to the office with renewed purpose and enthusiasm.

Day one of the summit featured a mixture of presentations and CEO level panel discussions and tackled a range of pertinent issues including Conference Model Innovation, how to set up in Asia, creative production techniques, the question of branding and how to work effectively with sponsors.

On the evening of 27th March the first Asian Conference Awards were held featuring opera singing host Darryl Lovegrove. Click here to see this year's successful conferences and conference teams.

Day two of the summit featured insights from TEDxSingapore, debate over virtual events and social media, ideas on how to recruit and retain talent and case studies on the China market and how to monetize content.

This website features pictures from the event as well as interviews with speakers. To see who attended see the right hand panel of the agenda page .

The organisers would like to thank all the sponsors, speakers and judges who were all so instrumental in the launch of this event

For information on future event please complete this 2013 enquiry form.

We were delighted that the Awards and Summit were held in Singapore and supported by the Singapore Tourism Board.

“Singapore is proud to host the inaugural Asian Conference SUMMIT & AWARDS 2012. With Asia Pacific being the key growth market for many companies, the need to understand the latest challenges and opportunities in the region and build up key relationships with suppliers, buyers and partners have become critical for businesses. Conferences have therefore also become an integral part of doing business in the region. As such, the summit is timely in bringing together conference industry professionals from all over Asia to discuss best practices and trends in Asia’s burgeoning conference industry. We look forward to the invaluable opportunities for education, business development and networking that this event will bring. Together with the awards, we believe that this platform would spur the professionalism and raise industry standards in Singapore and across Asia’s conference industry.”
Melissa Ow, Assistant Chief Executive, Industry Development Group II, Singapore Tourism Board