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The Knowledge Program will launch AIME on 13 February 2023. Confirmed speakers for the day include Professor Ben Hamer and Jelena Dokic. Music from SongDivision will bring learnings from the day to life.

Speaker sessions will be complemented by EQ (emotional intelligence) and IQ (intelligence) streams, designed to address the hard and soft skills needed to thrive in the business events industry. What is the opportunity for the events industry now? And will ask how, after much upheaval, renewal, and refocus, the business events sector can emerge more substantial and more critical.

Major industry discussion points around the future of work, how to build resilient cultures, what to do in a crisis, upskilling and wellness will be discussed. It will see a mix of industry business leaders and renowned professionals as well as keynote speakers from Saxton Speakers Bureau (Saxton) and ICMI Speakers & Entertainers (ICMI).

The Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Event (AIME) has today announced details of its highly anticipated Knowledge Program for 2023, which will include an address from Australian tennis star, Jelena Dokic.

The program theme for 2023 is Your Industry.

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The program will be hosted by industry leader El Kwang, Chief Commercial Officer at The Venues Collection, AIMEbassador and Chair of the Knowledge Program Advisory Committee. The day will end with associations setting the vision for the industry’s future.

This is in addition to breakout sessions designed for event professionals working across corporate, association, not-for-profit and supplier sectors. Australian tennis legend, Dokic, will draw on her extraordinary life experience to deliver an introductory talk about well-being and resilience. Hamer is a media commentator, podcast host and author of The Kickass Career and will cover the future of work in his keynote.

Anna Patterson, Founder of Sight and committee member, is confident the program will spark interest, stir debate and engage all areas of the events industry: “We are at a pivotal point in our industry’s trajectory, and we need to think more about the future. Eight leaders from the Asia Pacific meetings and events industry have curated all program content for the first time, ensuring discussions will leave attendees more invigorated than ever before.

In anticipation of her keynote, Dokic said: “It is wonderful to see an industry putting health, wellbeing and resilience front-and-centre. It is clear the business events industry is moving at breakneck speed and these themes could not be more timely. It’s a privilege to be a part of AIME for the 30th anniversary and help guide this program,” she said.

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“Building resilient workforces will permeate the future of workplace dialogue and I am pleased to be part of this movement.” The Knowledge Program is about empowering people by sharing experiences and focusing on the opportunities for what’s next.

New for AIME 2023 is the Knowledge Program Advisory Committee.

We have kept this front of mind when curating the 2023 Knowledge Program, selecting a diverse range of speakers and sessions to create space for us as individuals and as an industry to inspire leadership and creativity and map a better path forward.

Silke Calder, AIME Event Director, is proud of AIME’s education program, which both enriches and enhances the APAC business events community: “On the back of a monumental 2022, everyone is starting to feel the ‘burn’. Event planners, more than ever, have to balance the practical skills of event planning with the more humanistic qualities that build connections within our workplaces and events.

AIME’s Knowledge Program will kick off AIME on Monday, 13 February 2023. AIME 2023 will run from 13 –15 February at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC).

Visitor Buyers wanting to attend the Knowledge Program can upgrade their tickets. For more details on the Knowledge Program, including the latest announcements: https://aime.com.au/schedule/.