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Indian Association Congress (IAC) takes immense pride in unveiling the ASSOCIATION PARTNERS AWARDS 2025. These awards stand as the epitome of recognition and prestige, honoring the remarkable contributions to associations community.
Scheduled to be presented at a grand gala evening during the esteemed 12th India Association Congress, slated for the 29th of August 2025, at the esteemed Novotel Jaipur Convention Centre & Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Centre – Managed by Accor.
Join us to honor and celebrate the outstanding contributions of partners who support association communities through exceptional service, innovation, and dedication in areas such as hospitality, event venues, audiovisual production, and technology solutions. Association Partners Awards 2025 will recognise companies, who go above and beyond in delivering high-quality, reliable, and innovative services that enhance the success of association events, conferences, and community initiatives.
The award categories are designed to reflect the diverse contributions of partners in the association community. Each category includes a brief description to clarify eligibility and criteria.
Recognizes a hotel that consistently provides exceptional accommodation services, tailored to the unique needs of association events, including seamless booking processes, flexible meeting spaces, and outstanding guest experiences.
Eligibility: Hotels that have hosted multiple association events in the past year with high satisfaction ratings.
Criteria: Exceptional customer service, adaptability to association needs, value for money, and positive feedback from association clients.
Honors a convention center, conference facility, or event venue that delivers outstanding facilities, accessibility, and support for association conferences and events.
Eligibility: Venues hosting association events with demonstrated excellence in logistics, space management, and client support.
Criteria: Venue quality, staff professionalism, accessibility, Sustainability and innovative offerings (e.g., hybrid event capabilities).
Celebrates an audiovisual company that provides innovative, reliable, and high-quality AV solutions, enhancing the impact of association events through seamless production and technical expertise.
Eligibility: AV companies that have supported association events with services such as sound, lighting, projection, or virtual streaming.
Criteria: Technical reliability, creativity in AV design, responsiveness to client needs, and ability to handle complex event requirements.
Recognizes an IT company or technology provider that delivers cutting-edge solutions, such as event apps, virtual platforms, or cybersecurity services, to enhance association events and operations.
Eligibility: IT companies providing technology solutions for association events or community management in the past year.
Criteria: Innovation, user-friendliness, scalability of solutions, and measurable impact on event success or attendee engagement.
Honors a partner (hotel, venue, or service provider) that demonstrates leadership in sustainable practices, such as eco-friendly event solutions, waste reduction, or carbon-neutral initiatives, for association events.
Eligibility: Any partner with documented sustainable practices implemented for association clients.
Criteria: Commitment to sustainability, measurable environmental impact, and alignment with association values on corporate social responsibility.
Recognizes a partner that consistently delivers exceptional customer service, going above and beyond to meet the needs of association clients.
Eligibility: Any partner (hotel, venue, AV, IT, or other service provider) with outstanding client feedback.
Criteria: Responsiveness, problem-solving, flexibility, and client satisfaction ratings.
Celebrates an emerging partner (new or lesser-known hotel, venue, or service provider) that has made a significant impact in the association community through innovative or high-quality services.
Eligibility: Partners in operation for less than 5 years or new to serving associations.
Criteria: Rapid growth, positive client feedback, and potential for long-term impact in the association sector.
Honors a partner that excels in delivering hybrid or virtual event solutions, ensuring seamless experiences for both in-person and remote association attendees.
Eligibility: Hotels, venues, AV, or IT companies with expertise in hybrid/virtual event delivery.
Criteria: Quality of virtual platform, attendee engagement, technical reliability, and integration with in-person experiences.
Recognizes a non-hotel/venue/AV/IT supplier (e.g., catering, transportation, or event management) that provides exceptional support to association events.
Eligibility: Any supplier providing services to association events in the past year.
Criteria: Reliability, quality of service, client satisfaction, and contribution to event success.
Celebrates a partner organization or individual with a long-standing history (10+ years) of exceptional service to the association community.
Eligibility: Partners with a decade or more of service to associations.
Criteria: Long-term impact, consistent excellence, and contributions to advancing the association event industry.
Ravinder Rawat
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is now being used across many industries in various ways, from drafting emails to writing code. Breakthroughs in the science behind AI have enabled a remarkable surge of new capabilities and use cases for associations and nonprofits, as well as in the for-profit space.
Associations gather and store large amounts of member and event data, feedback, legal documentation, and more. Associations can use generative AI to summarize documents and ask the system to present the data in new ways.
Generative AI can save organizations countless hours of work daily by automating processes, summarizing documents, visualizing datasets, and more. AI systems can perform tasks difficult for humans to accomplish and produce consistent results.
With AI tools aiding in data analytics and visualization, associations can save time and effort and generate more accurate and consistent analyses. In some cases, these AI tools can perform tasks that would tax even the most dedicated human given large amounts of data. However, like with all output from an AI system, analyses need to be validated by a human. Indeed, all text should be fact-checked to ensure accuracy.
Medical associations share many common characteristics. They typically depend on the voluntary professional activity of individuals to drive a not-for-profit business model. Their business is to represent the interests of the profession, to use collective knowledge to define standards, to define policy and to be a trusted voice for the public. Yet, beyond those similarities, medical associations are hugely diverse in terms of business model, geography, community, size and of course budget – the mix of challenges they are facing will therefore vary from group to group as well.
Medical Associations must communicate their value proposition, benefits, and services to potential members. Young medical professionals are tech-savvy – over 98% have the latest technology and spend nearly 4 hours daily on the Internet. Since the pandemic, video chatting and social media apps have been the most popular communication methods.
For today’s associations, the challenge of recruiting and engaging young professionals is never-ending. For medical associations and societies, it can seem utterly impossible. Young medical professionals keep rigorous schedules. Therefore, the challenge of competing for their time typically surpasses that of other associations.
Storytelling is a powerful tool. This art can help associations effectively convey important messages. Storytelling also allows organisations to connect to target audiences. The art of storytelling remains a veritable sales tool. Salespersons regularly look for ways to better connect with audiences. Hence, this theme will resonate well among marketers and content creators. The session teaches how to craft relatable narratives and also highlight, how to drive action with storytelling.
In recent years, we have recorded great progress toward gender equality. Yet, it is still difficult for women to get leadership positions. Hence, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in many industries. This subject matter deals with the challenges women face in leadership. Session will discuss how to break down the gender barrier in the workplace. The session will provide the tools and support for women to advance their careers.
The way we work is changing. We must evolve with the trend to survive in any industry. This conference theme explores the techniques for adapting to this new landscape. Participants will learn about the latest technologies, business models, and strategies for success. This session will expose participants to the demands of modern work. More importantly, it will help attendees to better adapt to the new realities.
Branding and marketing are two sides of a coin. Associations engages their members through marketing. Meanwhile, branding allows association to distinguish their products or services. With many associations competing for attention, it becomes necessary to stand out. Hence, this session is all about building connections. The theme will help Association Leaders find ways to connect members to their brands.