African Football Executives Confex 2013
Dates, venue and speakers have been announced for AFEX 2013.
The conference will take place on April 17 and 18 at Protea Hotel Balalaika, Sandton in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Kirsten Nematandani, President of the South African Football Association, and Anna McCartney-Melstad, United Against Malaria, have both been announced as speakers for the conference.
Nematandani will deliver the keynote.
Thomas Kwenaite, producer and presenter at SuperSport, has also been announced to present at AFEX 2013.
For more information about the conference, click here.
Peace and Sport Dubai Forum
The 2013 Peace and Sport Forum will be the first to take place in the Middle East or North Africa.
According to Peace and Sport, the goal of the conference is to "welcome the most prominent leaders from sports, politics, the private sector, charity organizations, academics and intergovernmental organizations, who all believe that sport can make a difference in the way our world works."
Government officials from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Algeria and many more have already confirmed attendance.
Speakers include HH Sheik Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Crown Prince and Chairman of the Dubaï Sport Council, and Nawal El Moutawakel, Vice President of the IOC.
For more information about the conference, click here.
International Convention for Sport in Africa 2013
Topics for discussion at CISA 2013 have been announced.
Panels include "Role of local authorities in financing sport," "Tourism, Sport, and Recreation," "What future for the African Games?" and "What financing models for a sustained development of sport in Africa?"
The full list of panels and speakers can be found here.
The 2013 CISA convention will take place on May 3rd-5th in Dakar, Senegal.
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SportAccord Convention
Hugh Robertson, the United Kingdom’s sports minister, is the latest speaker for the SportAccord Convention in St. Petersburg.
No date was given for his presentation, but the event is scheduled for May 26-31. His speech will focus on a "top-level perspective on the national impact of an Olympic Games."
Also recently, SportAccord announced it entered a partnership with global communications company Burson-Marsteller.
The firm is SportAccord’s new communications advisor and will become the recommended service provider for SportAccord’s 107 member organizations.
"As our mission has grown, it has become clear that it was time to engage a global firm to ensure that our work on behalf of our members is properly communicated," Vincent Gaillard, Director General of SportAccord, said in announcing the partnership.
The schedule for the SportAccord Convention’s Sports Demo Zone was also released.
Eighteen federations and other sport bodies will present.
"There is a terrific buzz about sport and the business of sport in Russia and delegates are really going to feel that excitement when they’re networking at our event," SportAccord Convention tells Around the Rings.
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Conference Schedule
IMG World Congress of Sport: April 3-4
Sport for All: April 25-27
Sport and New Media: May 16
FT/IFA Business of Football Summit: June 17
World Sport Congress, Geneva: June 18-19]
TAFISA World Congress: October 23
Soccerex Global Convention: November 23-27
Written by Aaron Bauer.
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