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Events Industry Market Size to Grow by USD 1.07 Trillion from 2025-2029, Surge in Corporate Events to Boost Revenue, Report with the AI Impact on Market Trends – Technavio

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NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Report on how AI is redefining market landscape – The global events industry market  size is estimated to grow by USD 1.07 trillion from 2025-2029, according to Technavio. The market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of  13.5%  during the forecast period. Rise in number of corporate events is driving market growth, with a trend towards growing popularity of events in education. However, emerging threat from open-source virtual events solutions  poses a challenge. Key market players include Access Destination Services, Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc., ATPI Ltd., BCD Travel Services BV, CL EVENTS AND WEDDINGS, Clarion Events Ltd., CS Ellis, Cvent Holding Corp., DRP Holdings Ltd., Entertaining Asia Ltd., Event Rhythm, Group Seven Events Ltd., Liberty Media Corp., Questex Media Group LLC, Regpack Inc., RELX Plc, Riviera Events, Theism Events, and The Freeman Co..

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Forecast period

2025-2029

Base Year

2024

Historic Data

2019 – 2023

Segment Covered

Type (Corporate events and seminar, Music concert, Festival, Sports, and Others), Source (Sponsorship, Ticket sale, and Others), Geography (Europe, North America, APAC, Middle East and Africa, and South America), Revenue Type (Ticket Sale, Sponsorship, Food and Beverage, Advertising, Merchandise Sales, Membership Fees, Participation Fees, Media and Licensing Revenue, and Others), Age Group (Below 20 Years, 21 to 40 Years, and Above 40 Years), and Event Location (Tier 1 Cities, Tier 2 Cities, and Tier 3 Cities)

Region Covered

Europe, North America, APAC, Middle East and Africa, and South America

Key companies profiled

Access Destination Services, Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc., ATPI Ltd., BCD Travel Services BV, CL EVENTS AND WEDDINGS, Clarion Events Ltd., CS Ellis, Cvent Holding Corp., DRP Holdings Ltd., Entertaining Asia Ltd., Event Rhythm, Group Seven Events Ltd., Liberty Media Corp., Questex Media Group LLC, Regpack Inc., RELX Plc, Riviera Events, Theism Events, and The Freeman Co.

Key Market Trends Fueling Growth

The Events Industry encompasses a wide range of public gatherings, from business objectives such as conferences, exhibitions, seminars, and corporate events, to celebrations of achievements and entertainment. This industry caters to diverse audiences, including corporate organizations, public entities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Events serve various purposes, such as promotions, fundraising initiatives, sports events, festivals, and trade shows. Business events, like conferences and exhibitions, provide a hands-on learning environment for participants, fostering discussions, interactions, and knowledge exchange. They offer significant financial burdens with intricacies like venue costs, event rentals, entertainment expenses, and production costs. Music performances and art performances are integral to the entertainment industry, with music concerts, music festivals, and music conferences featuring international music professionals and performing artists. The sports sector includes sports events, professional sports organizations, and fantasy sports, with telecasting/broadcasting rights and sports sponsorships playing crucial roles. Virtual events and hybrid events have gained popularity in the digital evolution, allowing for cost-effective, easily accessible experiences through smartphones, desktop apps, and mobile apps. Event logistics, registration, ticketing processes, and attendee experiences are essential components of event organization, ensuring customer satisfaction and real-time communication tools. The Events Industry is segmented into various sectors, including corporate events & seminars, music & art performances, sports competitions, and public organizations & NGOs. Event sponsorships are essential for businesses seeking brand loyalty, customer engagement, and positive impressions. Overall, the industry continues to evolve, with emerging technologies and event management companies adapting to societal needs. 

Virtual events in the education sector are gaining popularity as an effective and cost-efficient method for delivering training sessions. These events allow students to access learning materials from qualified instructors at their convenience, regardless of location. Virtual classrooms utilize game dynamics to maintain student engagement and develop time management skills. Additionally, conferencing features enable interactive sessions between students and faculty members, while social media integration enhances networking opportunities. This innovative approach to education reduces expenses and broadens access to quality instruction. 

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Market Challenges

The Events Industry encompasses public gatherings for business objectives, celebrations of achievements, entertainment, and support for community causes. This industry includes conferences, exhibitions, corporate events, seminars, promotions, fundraising initiatives, sports events, festivals, trade shows, and more. Corporate organizations, public entities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) host these events for diverse audiences to meet societal needs. Business events offer a hands-on learning environment, discussions, interactions, and knowledge exchange. They aim for financial profitability and positive impressions. Challenges include significant expenditures, intricacies, and communication complexities. The Entertainment Industry intertwines with Events, featuring music concerts, art performances, and sports events. Virtual events, hybrid events, and sponsorships are increasingly popular. Event organization involves event planning, registration, ticketing processes, attendee experiences, and customer satisfaction. Digital evolution impacts the industry with smartphones, desktop apps, and mobile apps. Real-time communication tools, internal processes, international collaborations, and event logistics are essential. The Events Industry is segmented into B2B, B2C, large enterprises, and various event types like corporate events & seminars, music & art performances, and sports competitions.Open-source virtual events pose a significant challenge to commercial enterprise virtual event vendors due to their cost-effectiveness. These software solutions can be downloaded and used on various platforms without any purchasing or licensing fees. Open-source options, such as OpenSim, VirtualBox, and Xen Project, offer basic features comparable to proprietary virtual events. Micro and small-scale enterprises, as well as individual users, prefer open-source virtual events for their affordability. The availability of these free alternatives limits the market for proprietary virtual event providers.

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Segment Overview 

This events industry market report extensively covers market segmentation by

TypeCorporate Events And SeminarMusic ConcertFestivalSportsOthersSourceSponsorshipTicket SaleOthersGeographyEuropeNorth AmericaAPACMiddle East And AfricaSouth AmericaRevenue TypeTicket SaleSponsorshipFood And BeverageAdvertisingMerchandise SalesMembership FeesParticipation FeesMedia And Licensing RevenueOthersAge GroupBelow 20 Years21 To 40 YearsAbove 40 YearsEvent LocationTier 1 CitiesTier 2 CitiesTier 3 Cities

1.1 Corporate events and seminar-  The corporate events and seminars segment of the events industry market is experiencing notable growth due to the complete digitization of core event management processes and the increasing importance of customer-centricity. This segment caters to end-users like private organizations, businesses, corporations, trading associations, educational institutions, and political parties. By outsourcing event planning, these organizations can reduce operational costs by approximately 30%. Services provided include research, venue selection, hotel reservations, transportation, food and entertainment arrangements, site visits, and event execution. Despite this growth, the market share of the corporate events and seminars segment is decreasing due to the expansion of other industries, such as corporations, music, and concerts. Nevertheless, professional development conferences, strategic planning meetings, and annual shareholder meetings continue to contribute significantly to the overall growth of the corporate events and seminars segment. These factors are expected to fuel the expansion of the global events industry market throughout the forecast period.

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Research Analysis

The Events Industry encompasses a vast array of public gatherings, each with unique business objectives. From celebrations of achievements and entertainment to support for community causes, conferences, exhibitions, corporate events, seminars, promotions, and fundraising initiatives, Events serve various purposes. Business profitability is a significant factor, with transactions taking place through online booking and phone calls. Time and place are crucial elements, ensuring smooth execution and maximum impact. Music and art performances, sports, festivals, and trade exhibits cater to diverse populaces. The Events Industry is a dynamic and vibrant sector, bringing people together for a myriad of reasons.

Market Research Overview

The Events Industry encompasses a wide range of public gatherings, serving various business objectives and societal needs. These events include celebrations of achievements, entertainment spectacles, support for community causes, conferences, exhibitions, corporate events, seminars, promotions, fundraising initiatives, sports events, festivals, trade shows, and more. Participants engage in discussions, interactions, and learning opportunities, while organizers manage the intricacies and significant expenditures. Business entities, public organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and diverse audiences come together in this vibrant sector. Events serve various purposes, from knowledge exchange and networking to marketing and brand loyalty. The entertainment industry, including music concerts, art performances, and sports, plays a significant role. Virtual events, hybrid events, and sponsorships have become increasingly popular, with organizers leveraging software, platform, and B2B/B2C organizations for cost-effective and easily accessible solutions. Real-time communication tools and digital evolution facilitate seamless event logistics, registration, ticketing processes, and attendee experiences. The Events Industry caters to large enterprises, professional sports organizations, and international collaborations, with various segments, including corporate events & seminars, conferences & exhibitions, promotion & fundraising, music & art performances, and sporting competitions. Overall, the industry continues to evolve, adapting to emerging technologies and the ever-changing needs of its diverse clientele.

Table of Contents:

1 Executive Summary
2 Market Landscape
3 Market Sizing
4 Historic Market Size
5 Five Forces Analysis
6 Market Segmentation

TypeCorporate Events And SeminarMusic ConcertFestivalSportsOthersSourceSponsorshipTicket SaleOthersGeographyEuropeNorth AmericaAPACMiddle East And AfricaSouth AmericaRevenue TypeTicket SaleSponsorshipFood And BeverageAdvertisingMerchandise SalesMembership FeesParticipation FeesMedia And Licensing RevenueOthersAge GroupBelow 20 Years21 To 40 YearsAbove 40 YearsEvent LocationTier 1 CitiesTier 2 CitiesTier 3 Cities

7 Customer Landscape
8 Geographic Landscape
9 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
10 Company Landscape
11 Company Analysis
12 Appendix

About Technavio

Technavio is a leading global technology research and advisory company. Their research and analysis focuses on emerging market trends and provides actionable insights to help businesses identify market opportunities and develop effective strategies to optimize their market positions.

With over 500 specialized analysts, Technavio’s report library consists of more than 17,000 reports and counting, covering 800 technologies, spanning across 50 countries. Their client base consists of enterprises of all sizes, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. This growing client base relies on Technavio’s comprehensive coverage, extensive research, and actionable market insights to identify opportunities in existing and potential markets and assess their competitive positions within changing market scenarios.

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commercetools Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce as AI Reshapes the Market

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commercetools is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce for the seventh consecutive year.commercetools has been driving AI innovation on how enterprises build, operate and sell, including capabilities like Sphere, Commerce MCP and commercetools for Builders.commercetools is helping global enterprises modernize complex commerce operations and prepare for a future where both people and AI agents discover, shop and transact.

BOSTON, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — commercetools, the digital commerce AI company, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce. This marks the seventh consecutive year commercetools has been recognized as a Leader in the report.

As AI reshapes commerce, commercetools is expanding how it supports the enterprises who build and operate commerce experiences, and the shoppers who use them. Global enterprises including JD Sports, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Chemist Warehouse and Mirion Technologies are using commercetools to modernize complex digital commerce, accelerate growth and adopt new AI-powered ways of operating and selling.

“Commerce is moving from systems that simply respond to human instructions toward systems that can increasingly understand, decide and act,” said Doug McNary, Chief Executive Officer at commercetools. “We’re proud to be named a Leader for the seventh consecutive year. Enterprises shouldn’t have to choose between the flexibility they need today and the autonomy they’ll need tomorrow. Our focus is giving them the technology to support both.”

Over the past year, commercetools has introduced new products and capabilities designed to bring AI across the commerce lifecycle:

Sphere: Brings together commercetools’ AI-native infrastructure and agent governance through Commerce MCP into a unified platform for enterprises to build, operate and sell with AI.commercetools for Builders: Helps anyone build, extend and evolve enterprise commerce faster with AI.AgentSphere: Lets enterprises build and manage AI agents to run commerce operations and agentic shopping, with appropriate guardrails to do so safely and at scale.Modular commerce offerings: Gives enterprises the flexibility to start with the capabilities they need and expand over time, accelerating time to value without requiring a full commerce transformation upfront.Commerce Integration Layer: Centralizes integration logic behind customer-facing experiences. Storefronts, mobile apps and AI agents connect through a unified layer hosted and maintained by commercetools.Smart Data Modeler: Uses AI to accelerate product data modeling, helping teams build the right foundation faster and reduce time-to-launch.

commercetools’ customers include large enterprises across retail, manufacturing, life sciences, healthcare and telecommunications in markets around the world.

To learn more about commercetools’ position as a Leader, download your complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant report today.

About the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce

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About commercetools

commercetools, the global digital commerce AI company, helps enterprises transform commerce for the AI era. Built API-native from the start and AI-first by design, our technology enables agentic shopping experiences, automates commerce operations and gives businesses the agility to modernize faster, innovate continuously and operate more intelligently.

More than 500 global brands, retailers and enterprise companies rely on commercetools to power their digital commerce. Together, they process more than $100 billion in annualized GMV, over 700 million orders and more than one billion customer records on our platform.

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Phylo’s Biomni Lab to expand the use of AI agents in scientific research at Bayer

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Phylo, Inc. announced today a partnership with Bayer to deploy Biomni Lab, Phylo’s agentic AI platform to accelerate scientific research and evaluation. 

Under the agreement, Phylo will provide Bayer with full access to its agentic platform that helps Bayer scientists bring together scientific literature, biomedical data, and analytical methods in one environment, reducing the manual effort required to assemble and assess evidence. The platform’s inspectable workflows preserve the context behind each result, allowing researchers to review the underlying sources, methods, and execution and apply their own scientific judgment. Bayer scientists will gain access to Biomni Lab for workflows focused on assembling literature and omics evidence for drug discovery.

“This partnership reflects our belief that AI should expand scientific curiosity, not just speed up routine work. Giving our scientists an AI partner that brings rigor to every step lets them explore more ideas, ask bolder questions, and find the insights that move drug discovery forward, ultimately accelerating the pace at which we can bring new medicines to patients,” said Sai Jasti, Senior Vice President, Head of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Bayer Pharmaceuticals R&D.

“For agentic AI to matter in research, it has to earn the trust of the scientists doing the work. Bayer’s selection of Biomni Lab is a strong endorsement of the scientific rigor and AI capabilities we’ve built into the platform,” said Kexin Huang, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO of Phylo. “Our vision is an AI-native operating system for biopharma, where every scientist can direct a team of AI agents to pursue complex research questions. With Bayer, we aim to show what becomes possible when AI capabilities meet deep scientific expertise: more hypotheses explored, more discoveries made, and new possibilities for medicine.”

About Phylo

Phylo’s mission is to bring the best agentic intelligence to every biomedical scientist. Its enterprise-grade AI platform, Biomni Lab, is the first Integrated Biology Environment—a unified workspace where scientists collaborate with AI agents across literature research, experimental design, biological data analysis, and scientific decision-making.

Biomni Lab is now used by leading global biopharma, including Bayer, Chugai Pharmaceutical and Ono Pharmaceutical. Phylo is based in South San Francisco, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Menlo Ventures.

For more information, visit phylo.bio. To learn more about Biomni Lab, visit biomni.phylo.bio.

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Sandler Partners Welcomes Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region

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New Hire Announcement | Independent Technology Distributor Sandler Partners grows its Sales Engineering team, adding Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region.

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sandler Partners, the leading independent Technology Solutions Distributor, announces the addition of Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region, further strengthening its dedicated sales engineering team and the technical support available to Partners in the West Region.

Bryan brings more than two decades of experience designing and delivering complex technology solutions, including enterprise and Cloud architecture roles at Lumen/Savvis and IBM focused on infrastructure modernization and customer success. His expertise spans automation, edge computing, disaster recovery, application performance monitoring (APM), and DevSecOps. In his role, Bryan will support Partners across the West Region, aligning early with them on strategy and leading thoughtful discovery to help them find the right fit for each client.

For Bryan, strong relationships and solid values guide his life and form the foundation of his professional success, a perspective that fits naturally within the Sandler Partners community. When he is not working, Bryan spends time with his family, including his wife, three sons, and a grandson, RVing, boating, and biking, along with pursuing his passion for freediving.

“Bryan brings the kind of hands-on experience our Partners value: he’s been in the room on complex deals and knows how to turn a customer’s needs into the right solution,” says Justin Marano, Chief Revenue Officer, Sandler Partners. “He came to Sandler for the freedom to work across best-of-breed Providers, and our Partners in the West will feel that right away. He’s collaborative, grounded, and focused on helping Partners win. I’m excited to have him on the team.”

“I’m excited to get to work alongside our Partners, helping them navigate complex opportunities and bring clarity to technical decisions,” says Bryan. “For me, it all comes back to relationships. When you build them on trust and shared values, the results follow for our Partners and their clients. That’s something that the Sandler community really embodies, and I look forward to getting to work with our Partners!”

About Sandler Partners
Sandler Partners helps empower its network of leading independent Sales Partners to deliver a comprehensive range of technology solutions to organizations worldwide, including Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Connectivity, Cloud, Colocation, Mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), and Continuity. Its community-focused approach enables Partners to identify the right solutions for customers quickly and objectively from a diverse portfolio of 220+ Providers. Partner sales agents, VARs, and MSPs gain access to an innovative suite of sales tools within the Sandler Portal—including SCOUT, Solutions Finder, Scout for Solutions, and the Marketing Center—several of which are AI-powered, all backed by a robust support network, dedicated Sales Engineering expertise, and rich marketing resources. Together, these tools and resources empower Partners to focus on what they do best: delivering quality, value, performance, innovative solutions, unmatched expertise, and exceptional service to their clients. Members of the Sandler Partners community also benefit from the industry’s strongest negotiated agreements and a dedicated team committed to ensuring commissions are accurately identified, tracked, and paid. For more information, visit www.sandlerpartners.com.

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