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MARTA CAMPOS / Director of BEC Meetings&Events BEC Meetings&Events has closed a special 2020, conditioned by the pandemic. The director, Marta Campos, reflects on how the socio-sanitary situation has affected the sector and is optimistic about the beginning of the recovery. BEC has been a pioneer in organizing large-format events; for this, it has applied […]

Private meetings, corporate events, language exams, public job examinations, exhibitions … The more than 50 spaces offered by Bilbao Exhibition Center facilities will host a wide variety of events in the coming months. The first of them started last Thursday, March 10th, with the open day of an important cooperative distribution company. The meeting, that has a hybrid […]

The main decision makers of events of national and multinational companies based in Spain have an appointment with the National Corporate IMF organized by Iberian Mice Forums that will be held in Madrid on March 25. BEC Meetings & Events will attend the appointment with a closed agenda of meetings with corporate hosted buyers where […]

Bilbao Exhibition Center facilities are characterized by their versatility and innovative character. This is reflected in the latest edition of the Guide of Spaces of Events plus, which has dedicated a full page to presenting the characteristics of BEC in detail. The publication lists the different spaces of the exhibition centre, such as the Convention […]

Bilbao Exhibition Center welcomes countless academic tests throughout the year: language level exams, public job vacancies from various organizations or other employment tests. And for each one of them BEC offers a wide catalog of services that make these tests truly tailor-made exams. So the public examination to the Bizkaia Fire Brigade and the EiTB […]

The Provincial Council of Bizkaia met in BEC on December 18, 2020 the city councils and local development agencies of the territory to present the renewed action strategy of the Bizkaia Orekan Sakonduz plan. The versatility of the basque venue allowed the event to be hybrid, with a face-to-face participation of around 90 people and […]

In spite of the social and health restrictions, the economic impact was € 34.8 million  Bilbao Exhibition Centre closed a complicated 2020 having held 94 events with the participation of 340,458 visitors and a total site occupancy over the financial year of 195 days. The conjunction of three important factors enabled BEC to counter the […]

The return of the fairs to Bilbao Exhibition Centre had a strong response from the public. 3,900 people were immersed in the vintage world of Desembalaje. The vintage, retro and antiques decoration fair occupied during the weekend of October 17 and 18 the pavilion 2 of BEC, with a total surface of 12.000 square meters […]

Marta Campos, director of BEC Meetings and Events, attended from November 1 to 4, together with the representation of the Bilbao Convention Bureau, the 59th Congress of ICCA, the International Congress and Convention Association; as well as the Assembly of the Iberian Chapter, where the members of Spain and Portugal discussed the future of the […]

The new technologies offer interesting possibilities, even more in the current circumstances, which force to look for alternatives and other participation models. The latest foray into the world of hybrid congresses has been the Fun & Serious Game Festival, the largest video game festival in Europe, which has broadcast part of its programme via streaming […]

More than 500 people attended the first major congress held in Bizkaia since March 2020. The large-format congresses are back at BEC Congress Center on October 8 with the celebration of the LAB Inter-Congress Assembly; a meeting that had the participation of more than 500 people in person and several attendees who connected through streaming. […]

The conference on Hydrogen Technologies held on October 6, brought together more than a hundred participants who were divided into two scenarios: the face to face event in room 1, with more than 50 people, and the virtual one, since the event was broadcast live by streaming, for around 57 participants. The event, organized by […]

Bilbao Exhibition Center has designed a strict protocol to guarantee health and safety in its facilities both for its workers and for those attending the events that are organized. These measures may be increased whenever the organization of an event requires special and additional rules to those that already exist. In this case, a specific […]

They will hold meetings with various actors related to incentive trips and presenting the capacity and versatility of the Biscayan team The main European agencies in the meetings, event organisation and incentive trip industry will gather at IBTM at the Fira de Barcelona from 19 to 21 November. Bilbao Exhibition Centre will be attending with […]

BEC participates in IMEX, the most important fair for meetings and incentive travel, where it will share the stand with the Bilbao Convention Bureau and several Biscay hotels. BEC Conventions & Events continues to extend the frontiers of its facilities to the international market. To reach this goal, it participates in IMEX, the leading European […]