Please note: The IAEE Membership Department verifies the information provided by an organization via the company website and has the right to change membership type or category, including denying membership based on the application submission.
Organizer/Planner Industry Member

An organization is eligible for Organizer/Planner membership if they organize, manage, and or plan exhibitions, events, conferences, congresses, and or meetings. This includes organizations that have a team or department that spends more than 51% of its time planning or organizing exhibitions, events, conferences, congresses and/or meetings.

Industry - Organizer
Supplier Industry Member

An organization is eligible for Supplier membership if it is engaged in providing/selling products and/or services to customers related to exhibitions, events, conferences, congresses, and/or meetings. *This includes any independent or third-party event companies that also provide consulting services, sales support, sponsorship, digital platform, and official service contracting to their customers.

Industry - Supplier
Corporate Event or Exhibit Marketer Membership

An individual or organization that uses or creates experiential events to market programs, products and/or services to both business-to business and business-to-consumer organizations. Organizations producing their own event(s), will take precedence over event or exhibit marketer, and they would fall under the Industry Member Category. This classification receives one vote per member organization.

Corporate Event or Exhibit Marketer
Event Facility Membership

An organization, such as a convention, conference, exposition center or hotel, which provides space for conducting exhibitions and buyer-seller events in North America. Dues are based on gross square footage of exhibition, conference and meeting space. This classification receives one vote per member organization.

Event Facility
Academia/Educational Institution Membership

An educational institution membership includes both faculty and students of the institution. All designated individuals employed as faculty in post-secondary academic programs, whose main employment, remuneration, direction and efforts must be in a recognized academic institution, and they must be considered an employee with their institution. Also included in this membership are all students engaged full-time in a program at the college or university recorded as an IAEE Educational Institution Member. This classification is non-voting.

Academia/Educational Institution
Individual Memberships
Facility Individual

A Faculty Membership is a member who is teaching or directing a program at a college or university approved by the IAEE Board of Directors. Faculty Membership is for individuals employed as faculty in post-secondary academic programs, whose main employment, remuneration, direction and efforts must be in a recognized academic institution, and they must be considered an employee with their institution.

Facility
Student Membership

A Student Membership is for an individual who is engaged full-time in a program at a college or university approved by the IAEE Board of Directors. Student members shall not be entitled to vote, hold office or be a Director in the association.

Student
Outside United States

An individual that is engaged in the management, planning, production or promotion of exhibitions and similar events to bring buyers and sellers together and are located outside the United States. This membership is available for suppliers and organizers.

Outside US
Retired Membership

A Retired Membership is an individual who has been a member of IAEE, or a designated representative of a Voting Member of IAEE, for ten (10) or more years, and who is retired and no longer employed in the exhibitions and events industry. For the purpose of this definition, "employed" shall mean substantial remuneration for any labor. Retired members shall not be entitled to vote, hold office or be a Director in the association.

Retired