tives This idea can boost your sales enthuses Hattendorf And it s great for the environment because decision makers can watch from the comfort of their own desks without having to make the trip The best practice cases will be presented during the special inter est group sessions One of the sessions will be about women in the ex hibition industry It will feature discussions of female top managers who have achieved senior management positions in exhibition and congress centres or organising companies Carina Bauer Monica Lee Müller and Mary Larkin The latter was recently elected UFI president for 2020 and will be the first woman to head the association We dis cussed intensively how to further integrate the topic of women in the UFI reports Kai Hattendorf The topic needs a global discourse and this year s congress will deliver Finally at the end of the Saint Peters burg congress there will be a new talk show like format Industry leaders will be looking back at 2018 and making forecasts for 2019 Chet Burchett has promised to join the panel among others To ensure that all delegates can really participate in the programme the UFI advises everybody to take care of entry formalities at an early stage For example EU citizens must provide proof of health insurance when applying for a visa which takes extra time It seems that the vast majority of delegates are heeding this advice In July the host of the 85th UFI Congress ExpoForum had already sent out hundreds of invi tations required for applying for a visa www ufi org PB Stand 09 2018 RUSSIA CHEMIE KHIMIA 21st International Trade Fair for the Chemical Industry Moscow 29 October 1 November 2018 www chemistry expo ru en ZDRAVOOCHRANENIJE 28th International Trade Fair for Health Care Medical Engineering Healthy Lifestyle 2018 Moscow 3 7 December 2018 www zdravo expo ru interplastica 22 International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber Moscow 29 January 1 February 2019 www interplastica de upakovka PROCESSING PACKAGING Moscow 29 January 1 February 2019 www upakovka tradefair com CPM Collection Premiere Moscow Moscow 25 28 February 2019 www cpm moscow com NEFTEGAZ 19th International Trade Fair Equipment and Technologies for the Oil and Gas Industry Moscow 15 18 April 2019 www neftegaz online com LITMASH RUSSIA International Foundry Technology Supplies and Castings Trade Fair Moscow 14 17 May 2019 www litmash russia com METALLURGY RUSSIA International Metallurgical Technology Processes and Metal Products Trade Fair Moscow 14 17 May 2019 www metallurgy russia com Tube Russia The International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair in Russia Moscow 14 17 May 2019 www tube russia com Where ever you need us we re there all over the world www messe duesseldorf de UP TO DATE Trade Fairs by Messe Düsseldorf Group 2018 19 11 FOCUS TradeFairs Internation al 3 2018 Russia is one of our Top Five UFI managing director Kai Hattendorf talks about the role of this year s host country within the UFI In 2005 the UFI Congress was held in Moscow At the time the association had recruited several new Russian members How has the cooperation with players from Russia developed within the UFI since then Things have been developing very well Many personalities from Rus sia have occupied and still occupy senior positions within the UFI As an example I would like to mention Sergey Trofimov who passed away in 2016 And I would single out Sergey Alexeev who co launched the Global Exhibitions Day as UFI president The figures also show the im portance of the Russian trade fair industry which is one of the Top Five for our association We have 40 members from Russia 115 trade fairs in the Russian Federation call themselves UFI Approved Events Where does the Russian trade show market currently stand Due to the sanctions and the general political climate the past few years have not been easy At present the market has stabilised at a rather low level and is gradually picking up again According to our current UFI barometer 73 per cent of Russian trade fair companies expect sales to rise in the first half of 2019 Will Russia also be one of the topics covered at the congress Last year in Johannesburg we launched a first special programme on the host country And we will stage another one in 2018 right after the actual congress Under the patronage of the Russian trade fair associa tion RUEF more than 100 professionals are expected to take part They will be able to share market information make new contacts and ex plore the options for collaborating on an international level

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