February 5, 2024 • 43 mins
In this episode, Sissi Lygnou, CEO of AFEA, discusses her lifelong ties to the meetings industry via her family's organisation, which she presides over today, and the brief step away in the early 2000s when she went to work for the Olympic Games organizing committee. Lygnou advocates for professional congress organizers, and this episode if full of insights on where she believes industry is currently, what she considers current barriers to industry growth as well as her vision for the future and recommendations to the industry. Get ready for insights, anecdotes and forward thinking from one of the meetings industry’s leading voices.
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