Industry Organizations Set Exhibitor-Data Standards

Several event-management and technology- solution providers have unveiled a set of data standards aimed at creating greater consistency and efficiency throughout the meetings industry. Announced at the Professional Convention Management Association's Convening Leaders conference in San Francisco, the effort aims to eliminate the manual process of managing data sets--creating, confirming and updating them regularly--that is required of many industry suppliers. Organizations including CadmiumCD, ExpoCAD, Freeman, GES, Map Your Show and Personify A2Z Events are among the vendors that have joined in this unified approach. This first set of standards is a preliminary step, aimed at setting a baseline for moving data between organizations, including the data objects and field-level details needed to work with exhibitor data.