24 February 2021 - Submitted by Louisa Daley Submitted by Louisa Daley on 24 February 2021
micebook has announced that Jessica Charles will join its team as event director.
Charles will work closely with CEO Chetan Shah on developing and managing micebook’s growing event portfolio, including the inaugural V Awards, due to take place this July.
Charles was most recently co-head at incentive travel specialist Black Tomato Agency, where she worked for six years. Prior to that she held account and event management roles at DBMT, Banks Sadler, Ashfield Meetings & Events and Haymarket Media Group.
Shah said: “I have hired Jessica three times now and we are delighted that she is joining the team as event director. We have some great events planned in the coming year and these have to be executed to the highest standards, not only because of the pandemic and the challenges it poses for live events but also because our communit
Global healthcare event specialists,
Ashfield Meetings & Events (part of UDG Healthcare plc), and sister company Ashfield Patient Solutions, have launched a joint effort to offer rapid Covid-19 screening at face-to-face events.
EventSafe – as the service will be called – will be available at events in Europe starting in January 2021. The group says the news is likely to be welcomed by many of the healthcare businesses that currently partner with Ashfield.
“Virtual meetings have obviously become the norm over the past nine months, and while many of our global clients have partnered with us to move beyond the Zoom call to much more audience-engaging broadcast-quality events, most are clearly missing that human connection element that only face-to-face can bring,” says Gavin Houston, COO for Ashfield Meetings & Events. “EventSafe is an incredibly exciting development for our industry and it’s set to be invaluable to our clients as they plan their programmes for 2021.”