CEF PARTNERS WITH ‘HOST CITY’

21 August 2025

The Centre for Events and Festivals (CEF) is delighted to announce its official partnership with Host City to support the activities of the Host City 2025 Conference. This collaboration strengthens our mission to bridge the gap between academia and industry, ensuring that cutting-edge research, insights, and thought leadership inform real-world practice.

Through this partnership, CEF will help transform intellectual outputs from the conference into open resources for our global community, enabling wider access to knowledge that shapes the future of events and festivals.

Together with Host City, we look forward to fostering dialogue, sharing expertise, and driving innovation across the events and festivals sector.

Host City is where major event owners, hosts and organisers meet. Participants are leaders of international federations, organising committees, associations and festivals, alongside event hosts and organisers from all over the world. 

Register to attend here: https://www.hostcity.com/register

We are delighted to announce that CEF has secured an exclusive discount for all the academics in our community who can join at the greatly discounted price of £199 (usually £999) using the code: 'HC2025CEF' - first come first served to the first 20 people.