ICCA Global Association Forum 2024

About ICCA Global Association Forum; our Flagship event on Sustainability

ICCA is proud to announce the ICCA Global Association Forum will take place this year on 7-9 July 2025, in Granada, Spain.

The ICCA Global Association Forum is an annual event that brings together association meeting planners, senior association representatives, and meeting suppliers from across the world, providing valuable insights, practical tools, and resources to support the association meetings industry. The event is focused on sustainability, wellness, and regenerative event management.

The GAF incorporates tailored business networking opportunities, using a unique matchmaking technology platform to connect association meeting planners with meeting suppliers they are considering partnering with.

The Forum is designed to highlight innovative sustainability solutions, and engage participants in interactive workshops to build community, collaboration, partnership and sustainability leadership. During Forum sessions, we will map global issues to the realities of events management, and enable best practice sharing on effective solutions.

Participants will leave the event empowered with new ideas and tangible plans to further sustainability action in their organization, events, and destinations.

What You’ll Gain

• Practical solutions to your organization’s sustainability challenges, shaped through real-time feedback from peers, experts, and association leaders.
• Fresh ideas from Spark Talks that showcase innovative approaches to climate action, circular economy, accessibility, equity, and social impact in business events.
• Hands-on skills to integrate sustainability into your event strategies — from embedding it in RFPs and supplier engagement, to applying EU sustainability directives and ICCA’s new Food Toolkit.
• Design-thinking practice to explore specific sustainability topics in small groups, turning complex challenges into actionable event solutions.
• Clarity on regenerative approaches, and how events are beginning to experiment with more future-forward and place-based action.
• An action plan to activate specific sustainability programs or initiatives in your organization — supported by peer feedback, expert guidance, and practical tools.
• Behind-the-scenes insight into how ICCA is measuring the carbon footprint of the event, including methodology, challenges, and lessons learned

We very much look forward to bringing our event to Granada!