What We Do

Since 1992 Adam Smith Conferences has been developing a range of high-calibre industry forums. These attract thousands of key decision makers from governments and industry each year. Many of these events are now established annual gatherings which offer unrivalled insights into market trends and developments, investment opportunities and commercial strategies for success.

Adam Smith Conferences provide platforms for debate across many industry sectors including energy, transport, banking & financial services, consumer goods, real estate, investments, pharmaceuticals, mining & metals, pulp & paper, automotive, agribusiness and IT.

With over 35 large scale events each year attended by thousands of top level executives from around the globe the most prominent annual events include the Russian Banking Forum, Ukrainian Investment Summit, Russian Automotive Forum, Russian Pharmaceutical Forum, Russian CFO Summit, Sakhalin Oil & Gas Conference, Russian Retail Forum, Kazakhstan Growth Forum, Russian Real Estate Summit and many others.

Events focus on all emerging markets, however, over the last decade, experience and extensive contacts have enabled the creation of a highly specialised niche in Russia and the CIS.

Today Adam Smith Conferences are the market leader for conferences in Russia and the CIS. The consistent high quality of events has given rise to a reputation for excellence, ensuring that Adam Smith Conferences provide the most fertile ground for participants to gain up-to-the-minute market intelligence and invaluable opportunities to network and generate new business.

Euroforum produces high-class events for transferring knowledge and exchanging views. These forums take place in form of open market seminars, conferences and annual conventions as well as in-house trainings, fairs and webcasts. Subject areas include energy, legal, corporate finance, banking, insurance, tax, logistics, retailing and IT.

As independent organiser, Euroforum engages experts from economics, science and politics who speak about latest trends and offer current information on topical subjects. Industry leaders, executives and decision makers – they all meet at Euroforum events, a perfect platform for networking. Events take place under the well-known brands of Euroforum, Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche (Germany), Handelszeitung (Switzerland) and others. Handelsblatt is the leading German newspaper for economic and financial information.

Events such as the renowned CTI Transmissions Symposium taking place annually in Berlin are the center of international attention and deliver high value information and innovative concepts to customers.

Events are also produced under the label of brands such as SMI, ETP, IFF and IFME, which focus on a certain industry sector or branch. Tailored to delegates’ requirements they offer high quality specialist information.

Euroforum has major operations in Germany and the Netherlands and smaller teams operating in Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Austria.

IBC Conferences is a leading business information specialist. With over 30 years of international expertise and an expanding network of offices spanning 12 countries and five continents, IBC is a highly regarded and preferred provider of quality business information in both emerging and established industry sectors.

IBC has successfully established itself as a leader in the business intelligence and conference industry to a wide cross-section of industries with particular emphasis on the following: telecoms, IT & media, banking, finance & insurance, pharmaceuticals & agrochemicals, energy, law, regulation, tax & accounting, construction, property & environment, maritime & transport.

This information is provided via conferences, training courses, workshops, seminars, distance learning courses, in-house sessions and managed events for leading international companies and governments.

ICBI , set-up in 1993, produces large scale annual events and boasts an enviable portfolio of flagship 'must-attend' events for the industries they serve. Specialisations include fund management, private equity, alternative investments, risk management & derivatives, transport & infrastructure finance, banking operations and energy. Conferences are run in Europe, Asia, Middle East, USA and Latin America.

These events attract thousands of senior attendees from all over the world drawn by the excellent programme quality that focus on commercial business issues as well as the opportunity to network and meet/do business with speakers and fellow delegates. The events benefit from high level sponsorship and focused exhibition areas. This enables event partners to raise their profile and demonstrate their expertise to senior level, qualified audiences.

ICBI offers unique learning & networking opportunities through:

Cutting-edge, market driven, quality programmes.

Months of intensive industry research with market professionals determines the issues critical to business professionals and forms the basis of the market driven programmes.

Unparalleled speaker line-ups
Prestigious speaker faculties, featuring up to 200 speakers, are hand-picked from months of research with market professionals. They feature the crème de la crème of 'A-list' international industry leaders, academics, politicians, industry practitioners, specialist experts and 'out of the box' guest speakers to stimulate and entertain.

Facilitated networking at its very best
Meeting clients and new prospects, catching up with peers and old friends and developing those business relationships that matter most are facilitated by glittering social events, speed networking and pre/post-event and 'at-event' electronic networking tools.

IIR has been part of the Informa Group since 2005 and comprises a number of business units around the world providing market-leading conferences, exhibitions, seminars, training, specialised business information and networking opportunities.

Most of IIR’s events are based on in-house exhaustive market research which produces in-depth insight and intelligence that reveals emerging trends, critical interest areas and opportunities to provide productive content unique to these events.

Many of IIR’s events feature world-class speakers – heads of state, global CEOs, entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, trendsetters. The most influential and sought-after experts ensure the audiences receive the most authoritative information and the latest best practices.

In America, Front End of Innovation has grown to be the number 1 event for provoking change, exchanging best practices and defining next practices. GAIN USA has also gained a reputation for identifying the rising stars of the Alternative Investment sector and brings together investors with discrection over $315bn and over $8tn under advisement.

The IIR office in Beijing runs the Palm Expo which is the largest pro-audio and sound event in the region with over 2700 exhibitors across 85,000sqm floor space.

In the Middle East, flagship events such as Cityscape, Middle East Electricity and Arab Health, which is the 2^nd largest healthcare event in the world, have become well-established and part of a 40 strong portfolio of large scale events in the region.

IIR in Australia have the South East Asia Australia Offshore Conference (SEAAOC) which is part of a series of events in the mining, resources & energy sectors and attracts a large and loyal following.

Europe is home to hundreds of IIR conferences, workshops and training courses each year. These cover many topics including general management, finance, banking and energy.

Informa Exhibitions business has the unique claim to fame of having operated shows since 1880, with the launch of the print industry mammoth event, IPEX. Somewhat more recently its trade show portfolio really began in the 1970’s with Arab Health and Middle East Electricity which were acquired and grown to the notable success stories they represent today. In 2011 Informa took the decision to bring all of its exhibition businesses into one unit, Informa Exhibitions. Its group is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where it runs over 35 events annually. The company has further offices in seven other major cities throughout the world for which you can find local contact information on its Contact Us page.

Global Leaders in Yachting Events - Informa Yacht Group is the world’s leading organiser of business-to-business yachting events and offers a unique marketing platform, through a global portfolio of exhibitions, conferences, regattas and other properties, to clients interested in reaching the luxury yachting and lifestyle sectors.

The Informa Sports Group (ISG) organises business-to-business events in the global sports industry. ISG provides customers with a competitive advantage through the latest 'must-have' sports business information and research and through business networking opportunities designed to create and build productive supplier-end user relationships. ISG provide the global sports industry with a matchless international marketing platform through a worldwide portfolio of sports industry events.

A relatively new addition to our exhibitions division is Informa Canada who produce and manage over 55 seminars, conferences, trade and consumer shows every year.  Events are hosted in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Regina, Saskatoon, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Seattle. Informa Canada produces events in many sectors including construction, design, craft, art, real estate, furniture, furnishings and food. The mission is simple and straightforward - to create, produce and manage relevant and profitable events, where successful business relationships are formed and nurtured.

Informa Performance Improvement (IPI) builds from the formidable strength of five global leaders:

AchieveGlobal, ESI International, Forum, Huthwaite and Omega Performance

With offices in over 40 countries around the world, IPI partners with the world’s leading organisations to help improve the critical skills of their employees. IPI works at both the individual and organisational levels to boost performance by developing the capabilities needed to strengthen business strategy. From business basics to fundamental selling skills and from project management to strengthening human connections, IPI learning solutions reinforce the broader goals of the organisation.

IPI leverages its global presence and diverse expertise to ensure that all offerings are both culturally relevant and strategically appropriate. Focused on depth of discovery, speed of delivery and measurement of impact, IPI has trained millions of people and served thousands of companies in scores of countries across industries, regions and cultures. IPI focuses on the philosophy that building a successful organisation requires commitment to improving performance on all levels.

Informa Telecoms & Media delivers strategic insight founded on global market data and primary research for the global telecoms industry.

Providing business critical information

Informa Telecoms & Media conduct primary and secondary research on the latest trends impacting the mobile communications, fixed communications and TV sectors, on a global basis. The market intelligence services  – World Cellular Information Service (WCIS), World Broadband Information Service (WBIS) and the Intelligence Centre – give clients access to market forecasts and key performance indicators as well as detailed analysis and exploration of trends.  These comprehensive and reliable data sources combined with access to a team of dedicated analysts provide clients with essential business tools to assist in their strategic and tactical decision making processes.

Creating communities

Additionally, Informa Telecoms & Media is the leading provider of strategic conferences and exhibitions to the global telecoms industry. Each year over 50,000 participants visit our 100+ portfolio of events to get better informed, network and do more business. From broad strategic conferences to niche technical workshops our events leverage our substantial research capability enabling delegates to identify strategic opportunities, learn from top-level speakers and get ahead of the industry curve.

The Informa Telecoms Academy is the leading provider of high quality telecoms business and technology training for the global telecommunications industry. 

The market-leading independent news portal telecoms.com also delivers the latest industry news and analysis to a 90,000 strong audience of global telecoms executives.