Shanna Jacobsen | Nov 11, 2024
By Gheeta Payle, Vice Chairperson of SAACI As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, the business events space must adapt – not by offering bigger, more dazzling conferences, but by seriously rethinking the how and who of event planning....
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 20, 2024
An Industry Partnership Agreement was announced at Meetings Africa between the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry (SAACI) and the Event Greening Forum (EGF). This strategic alliance involves several representatives from the...
Shanna Jacobsen | Mar 12, 2024
The Event Greening Forum (EGF) proudly announces the appointment of new board leadership and committee chairs, signalling a significant stride in its dedication to sustainable event management. With a blend of seasoned expertise and fresh...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 14, 2024
Meetings explores what our industry is doing to support young talent struggling to find their place in the events industry. At face value, two South African challenges – youth unemployment and the event industry skills shortage – look like they...
Shanna Jacobsen | Oct 25, 2023
Following its recent acquisition of Meetings magazine, 4Mal Media Management has signed new media partnerships with nine well-known and respected leading event industry associations. They are: AIPC – the International Association of Convention...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 15, 2021
SAACI has issued a notice to its members and event industry colleagues that members of its team have engaged with Allan Ragavaloo, UIF Director: Provincial Support, to assist the events industry with UIF TERS queries. Join the webinar (details...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 16, 2021
SAACI has welcomed the government’s announcement made last week that a further extension has been made for TERS, the UIF’s financial support programme, with applications opening from 19 July 2021. The Southern African Association for...
Shanna Jacobsen | Jul 4, 2021
Glenton de Kock, CEO of SAACI, on what the association has achieved during lockdown and how it is working to ensure the business events industry is supported in order to recover. RELATED: SAACI signs MoU with the City of Johannesburg
Shanna Jacobsen | May 24, 2021
The Southern African Association for the Conference Industry (SAACI) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) around a number of activities. Delegates were abuzz upon arrival of the second day of the SAACI Annual...
Shanna Jacobsen | Apr 11, 2021
SAACI has announced that two new members will be joining its Johannesburg branch committee, welcoming both Mary Mahlangu and Neil Nagooroo to the committee. Mary is a senior project and sales accounts manager at Flock Eventing Platform. Having...
Shanna Jacobsen | Feb 21, 2021
SAACI, the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry, ran an Industry Pulse Survey in December 2020 which they have made publically available. At the time of the survey, when South Africa was in Enhanced Alert Level 1 which allowed...
Shanna Jacobsen | Oct 4, 2020
South Africa reopened its borders for international travel on 01 October 2020, as part of the relaxed rules in level 1 of lockdown. The decision has been widely welcomed by the tourism and business events sectors, both of which rely on...
