Bjoern Kempe

Born in 1978, Halle/Saale, GDR Since year 2000 active in MICE industry in Asia and worked in managing positions with Messe Munich, UBM and Comexposium. Bjoern is passionate about exhibition business and trying to adapt to local cultures. His forte is in management of large scale shows, integration, intercultural negotiations and M&A. Bjoern lived 7 years in Hong Kong and more than 9 years in Shanghai. He currently resides in Bangkok.

Articles

Who is in the tank?

The main take-away of the recent CEO Exhibition Forum in Shanghai was a statement made by our good old friend Paul Woodward: We are living in good economic times!

What does 2018 hold for us?

let’s try to reflect 2017 in news ticker style before we try to make a prediction for this year that has just started:

Singapore MICE Forum 2017

At a macro level, the Asian market continues to hold great promise given her rising affluence, reasonable GDP growth and regional collaborations. With all these factors at play, how has our industry leveraged on opportunities in “our backyard” and engaged our community?

Recovery After Covid19

Overall Covid19 has cost the industry 2 valuable quarters of business and billions of dollars for the MICE industry and its related businesses.

Implications for M&A during COVID-19

While the Corona virus significantly put financial pressures on all exhibition organisers we continue to see interest in M&A especially from PE backed exhibition organiers.

Asian Black Swan clouds our horizons

Tradeshow organisers were quickly forced to cancel or postpone shows in China. Subsequent travel bans, quarantine measures and many other government-related policies made it impossible to continue business as usual.

A Numbers Game? ….. MICE Industry going into summer

After a stormy winter and currently a hot spring in MICE industry what weather conditions can we expect for summer?