Throughout this year, the CCIB (Barcelona International Convention Centre)will be bringing together over 350,000 delegates at diverse national, Europeanand international meetings and conventions. This organization, emblem ofBarcelona’s business tourism, hosts important events for the medical-health, pharmaceutical, computer and technological sectors, among other areas.Barcelona, April 2010.- “In an increasingly demanding market, the CCIB (Barcelona International Convention Centre) has demonstrated its ability to attract events of national, European and international scope, generating a significant economic impact for the city of Barcelona and maintaining our facilities as the standard-setting venue in all sectors. In this respect, we are extremely satisfied with our activity during the first quarter of the year, and the important conventions and events already confirmed for the rest of 2010”. Marc Rodríguez, the CCIB’s General Manager, was this explicit when evaluating the Centre’s activity; a period marked by a distinguishing characteristic: the high level of the meetings held at the Centre throughout 2010.
And so, from 25 to 28 January, for the third year running the CCIB hosted Networkers at Cisco Live!, one of the main annual conventions organized by Cisco, the multinational specializing in technology for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) market, attended by 4,000 professionals. After this important worldwide meeting, from 23 to 27 February the CCIB hosted the main annual meeting and workshops of YPO –Young Presidents’ Organization–. This prestigious event, which was held in Spain for the first time, brought together 1,500 internationally influential company directors and chairmen.
Days later, the CCIB once again put Barcelona on the international cultural and biotechnological sectors’ agenda by hosting, respectively, the Anna Lindh Forum 2010 (4- 7 March), and BIO-Europe Spring 2010 (8-10 March), assembling over 2,500 conference delegates at its facilities. Subsequently, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) (14-19 March); European Breast Cancer Conference (23-27 March), the 11th Annual NATA Symposium (8-9 April), all events belonging to the medical and pharmaceutical sector, placed the CCIB yet again in the epicentre of international interest in their respective specialities.
For the month of April, it is also important to note the Packaging 2010 Trade Show that was held here. After the closing of this year’s show, Fermín Pérez, General Manager of easyFairs Iberia, the organizing company, pointed out that: “easyFairs Iberia has once again fulfilled its expectations. Over 3,500 trade professionals, designers, directors and high-ranking business people connected to the packaging and labelling sector have visited the show. Its venue, the Barcelona International Convention Centre, provided us with a space that was totally suited to our needs, seeing that we were looking for a centre that could answer to the high demands of our target profile, trade professionals with a high decision-making capability. Modern and architecturally remarkable, the CCIB stands out from the rest thanks to its infrastructure and the excellent competence of its workforce”.
CCIB: a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary events calendar for 2010
The CCIB has confirmed that it will be hosting important meetings from many diverse fields this 2010. Throughout the year, the Centre expects to assemble over 350,000 delegates in its facilities at wide-ranging national, European and international encounters. Conventions from the medical sector will receive special prominence because different organizations have chosen the CCIB to hold their meetings or periodic assemblies for professionals specializing in different areas to disseminate and debate subjects relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, as well as system and infrastructure development. Some of the most outstanding are the Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica – Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Congress (19-22 May); GI Cancer Congress 2010 (28 June-3 July); 88th General Session & Exhibition- IADR (13-17 July); ESTRO 29 (12-16 September); ESICM Annual Congress 2010 (8-13 October) and UEGW 2010, that will bring together 12,000 professionals specializing in Gastroenterology from 23 to 27 October. Apart from the medical-health sector’s prominence, new technologies and innovation will be fundamental focal points of the CCIB’s program. So the Gennesys 2010 International Congress on Nanotechnology and Research Infrastructures (27-28 May) and the Symantec Conference (4-7 October) will be, in turn, a meeting forum for researchers and professionals from around the world.
Added to the abovementioned meetings, this year there are other important events like the Euro-Mediterranean Summit of Heads of State and Government, this coming June; the World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI 2010 (19-23 July), a worldwide meeting that will assemble 3,000 professionals and famous gurus from the computer world; and two other worldwide meetings held by the company HP –Worldcup and Software Universe- that will be held in May and November, respectively, bringing together a total of 3,500 delegates from this multinational company. “This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary events calendar –concludes Marc Rodríguez, the CCIB’s General Manager- confirms that our facilities are perfectly suited to any requirement, not only thanks to its exceptional dimensions – accommodating up to 15,000 people, with 45 break-out rooms, a large exhibition area and an Auditorium seating 3,200 -, but also to its cutting edge technological and telecommunications structure. Our team of professionals, specialized in all the diverse technical disciplines that are involved in an event, offers organizers comprehensive service. Moreover, we are backed by the experience of an international group, GL Events, present at the leading international events, like the last Olympic Games in Beijing or the upcoming World Cup of Football in South Africa”.
