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Sydney conference bid win case studies

Winning the bid to host a conference, event or business meeting in Sydney is lucrative and rewarding for both your association’s or organisation’s local branch and Sydney as a whole. But it requires time, effort, professional knowledge and teamwork across a number of industries and organisations.

Conference bid win case studies

To give you a better idea of how we've helped partners win bids to host conferences, business meetings and events in Sydney, here are a few examples:

World Conference on Lung Cancer, 2013

Sydney won the right to host the 2013 World Conference on Lung Cancer in 2008 following almost eight years of campaigning by Business Events Sydney (BESydney). This achievement for Sydney demonstrated that a united industry, government and stakeholder approach could and would pay dividends.

International AIDS Society Conference, 2007

Sydney hosted the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in 2007, four years after BESydney won the bid. More than 6,500 people from 150 countries participated in the four-day conference, more than double the original estimate, making it Sydney’s biggest business event of the year and injecting AU$14.6 million into the local economy.

Joint Congress International Fed. of Societies for Surgery of the Hand and International Federation of Societies of Hand Therapists, 2007

In March 2007, for the first time in history, hand surgeons and hand therapists met at the same time. More than 2,000 participants came to Sydney for the five-day conference at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, which included more than 750 live scientific presentations, poster sessions and a trade exhibition of more than 40 stands.

Find out more about how BESydney has helped win bids for the city, read case studies from 2005-2006.