INDIA – More than 97 per cent of delegates evaluating last month’s International Congress and Convention Centre Association Hyderabad Congress said they would recommend a friend or colleague attends next year.
ICCA claims its delegate evaluations of the individual education sessions this year were the most favourable ever, with 51.3 per cent of the ratings being ‘excellent’ and 40.4 per cent ‘good’. The results were culled from 1,400 individual scores registered using the Spotme networking device. Ninety per cent of the content was created especially for the Hyderabad Congress.
ICCA CEO Martin Sirk said: “While delegates usually have the most vivid memories of the social events and the new business contacts and friends they make at an ICCA event, it is the quality of educational content and intellectual stimulation that really determines the success of a meeting.”
ICCA delegates came from 60 countries with often wildly different business and learning cultures, and for many English is their second or third language.
“The panels of speakers had typically never worked together before, rehearsal time was extremely limited, and the levels of interactivity we were aiming for meant that there were tremendous levels of uncertainty about how well things would work out,” Sirk added. “In the event, this was our highest scoring programme ever, so we’re really grateful to the more than 80 speakers and panellists who contributed.”
ICCA’s 2011 Congress takes place in Leipzig, Germany, 22- 26 October.
