IELA’s recovery programme IELA RELOAD was a real INCUBATOR of ideas for the future, spreading the fighting spirit to empower IELA MEMBERS to succeed in the New Now, anticipating & rebounding by limiting losses and boosting strengths in profitable service areas.

Launched on May 4^th 2020, the programme had four pillars:

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Additional information, presentations and further Recordings can be found in the IELA Reload section within your IELA Private Zone.

IELA RELOAD 2.0 was launched on September 15^th 2020, as the second part, and will take place over the next months, inviting key stakeholders to collaborate and exchange on the NEW NORMAL in the NEW ERA of the Exhibition Industry and Winning Exhibitor Confidence Back.
The programme is based on three pillars:

Online IELA Operations Summit 2020 - IELA TALK 2.0 - RECOVERY FILES

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Registration and additional information are available within your IELA Private Zone.

IELA has been doing a great job.

IELA Reload 2.0 brought together global leaders and the Exhibition Industry fraternity on one platform for a highly informative interaction.

Great programme – highly educative and great networking

IELA sessions are insightful, well planned and definitely worth the time to attend.

This is a challenging time where it is trial and error for all of us, RELOAD offers a perfect opportunity to bounce of ideas and also to simply keep each other spirits high.

The IELA RELOAD programme provides us with energy and positivity and promotes us all to take whatever action we can in these times.  Providing education, information sharing and support.  There is no definitive recipe for this unprecedented situation, but together we are working to make a difference and come back stronger.

We definitely found the IELA RELOAD Programme to be very beneficial during the pandemic, and it allowed many members to come together, again, and to combat this together. It was an incredibly educational move from IELA as well, and we look forward to seeing more.

IELA is truly a leader in its own right, in bringing together people across the supply chain of the Exhibition Industry to review and find solutions to the current and future problems and issues. Only together can we ensure  that we have the right strategy to fight the causes of Covid19 and its obvious effects.
There is light at the end of the tunnel…we all need to also believe in it!

IELA Reload Programme is our fuel to make the day. As Elizabeth Niehaus, our dear Secretariat and I keep saying, feeling sorry and lamenting won’t take us anywhere. We have to reboot our minds, make space for new ideas or reshape ideas to keep us existing as EVENT FREIGHT FORWARDERS, PROFESSIONALS and HUMAN BEINGS.

Never more than in the current climate are we as members seeing the benefits of belonging to IELA. They have always been the industries reference point for issues such as best practice, compliance, training and networking but the leadership and vision they are currently demonstrating during the COVID-19 is inspiring.  The #togetherstrong social media campaign quickly galvanised the members both in providing support and solidarity but more crucially by raising awareness to other industry stakeholders and influencers.  Whilst the IELA RELOAD Programme has seen members across the world collaborate in creating robust virtual dialogue (courtesy of our new best friend Zoom) attempting to seek innovation and a roadmap to recovery. Our industry will bounce back and I look forward to working with the IELA secretariat and members across the many working groups, training opportunities and networking function the association provides. It’s hard to believe it’s only 35 years ago a handful of visionaries set out their idea of creating an event logistics trade association in an attempt to bring together a community and raise standards but fast forward it’s now equally difficult to believe the individual members can live without membership of this dynamic organisation.