Advertisement 4 August 2015 Upcoming International Congresses Europe 4th World Congress of Clinical Safety of the International Association of Risk Management in Medicine, 28-30/09/15, Vienna +++ 3rd Conference of the European Society of Pharmacogenomics and Personalised Therapy, 07-09/10/15, Budapest +++ 19th Annual Conference of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, 21-25/10/15, Geneva Asia 13th Biennial Congress of the Urological Association of Asia, 03-06/09/15, Shanghai +++ 17th Congress of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology, 06-09/09/15, Chennai +++ 9th Congress of the International Society for Hemodialysis, 13-16/09/15, Kuala Lumpur America 16th World Conference on Lung Cancer of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 06-09/09/15, Denver CO +++ 14th World Congress of the Human Proteome Organization, 27-30/09/15, Vancouver +++ 33rd Congress of the Confederation of Latin American Societies of Anesthesiology, 21-24/09/15, Lima Africa 19th Biennial Congress of the World Veterinary Poultry Association, 09-11/09/15, Cape Town +++ 21st Triennial Congress of the International Public Relations Association, 27-29/09/15, Johannesburg +++ 5th Annual Conference of the African Accounting and Finance Association, 02-04/09/15, Balaclava Pacific 17th Triennial Congress of the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association, 13-18/09/15, Wellington +++ 8th Pacific Water Conference of the Pacific Water and Wastes Association, 14-17/09/15, Port Moresby +++ 26th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, 09-12/09/15, Adelaide Manage your association like a football club by Isabel Bardinet, CEO of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Association management. 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Read more! Advertisement Please tell us your news! Feel free to get in touch. We would like to hear about you. UIA Round Table Asia-Pacific 2015 Bangkok. The 3rd UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific will take place at Bangkok at the Centara Grand at CentralWorld on 29/30 September 2015. learn through networking and through practice. Read more! ibtm world invites you to Barcelona My Association | My Club. ibtm world (formerly EIBTM) will deliver an international Hosted Buyer Programme dedicated to Association Meeting Planners at the show in Barcelona from 17-19 November. 2015. Click here! Advertisement Welcome Saint Petersburg! New Associate Member. UIA welcomes Saint Petersburg Convention Bureau as New Associate Member. Saint Petersburg's vision is to get into European Top 10 and World Top 20 business meetings destinations by 2020. Meetings Statistics Report 2015 UIA. The UIA International Meetings Statistics Report 2015 has just been released. For UIA Associate Members: to access the report please login to the UIA website and your dashboard. For the public: the report will be available in September 2015. Why Vienna? Christian Mutschlechner, Director of the Vienna Convention Bureau (VCB) Did you know, that...? + Vienna is the largest German speaking university city with over 160.000 students? + The University of Vienna has an inhouse full service PCO serving the members of the university? + Vienna hosts one of the most famous medical museums, the Josephinum? Read more! "The prevalence of obesity will inevitably rise" Karl Miller, Congress President of the 20th World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) In your word of welcome you refer to our modern world epidemic that Obesity and Metabolic Disorders have come to represent. Could you please explain this observation in more detail? The global nature of the obesity epidemic was formally recognized by a World Health Organization consultation in 1997. Obesity threat became the 21st century’s leading health problem. As more nations become industrialized and urbanized, the prevalence of obesity will inevitably rise. The cause of this increasing prevalence is that food is more available to everyone, and the physical activity is reduced with increasing urbanization. Recent breakthroughs... Read more! Important conferences UIA RT Asia 29-30/09/2015 Bangkok More UIA RT Europe 13/11/2015 Brussels More Important shows ibtm china 05-06/08/2015 Beijing More IMEX America 13-15/10/2015 Las Vegas More Number of the month Top 3 cities. The UIA’s annual International Meetings Statistics Report tells us the most popular cities for international associations meetings in 2014 were Brussels (7.3% of the world’s association meetings in 2014), Singapore (7.2%), and Vienna (3.4%). 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