International Women’s Day was honoured earlier this month, but the conversation it represents should not be confined to a single day on the calendar. The audiovisual and live events industry has always had talented women working within it. Women have long been producers, technicians, designers, project managers, and leaders across our field. But it is also true that they have historically been underrepresented relative to men.
Canada is a service economy. The services sector makes up about three-quarters of the country’s economic output. Technicians, managers, designers, and operators whose work is local by nature; the people who deliver that work live here, pay taxes here, and build their careers here. So, in a service economy, we are not fighting for the work — Canadians already do it. We are fighting for ownership of the value that work creates.
The Canadian Meetings + Events Expo (CMEE) is the largest and longest-running tradeshow and conference for meeting and event professionals. The Expo brings together the top suppliers and planners from across Canada looking for opportunities and creating partnerships.
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