Welcome to office*
The essential event for career focused PAs, EAs & Office Managers. Fresh from the success of our second fantastic show which saw the launch of National PA Day, the first ever online portal for Office Managers, IFOM.co.uk as well as many other new and innovative products and services all aimed at enabling todays office professional to excel in their increasingly demanding job roles.
office* 2011 saw visitor numbers increase by 18% and exhibitors by 26% – the feedback so far is brilliant from both sides with an incredible 60% of exhibitors rebooking onsite!
Please browse this website to see what was on offer this year as we update the site ready for an even bigger and better show for 2012 – having already outgrown our venue we move to National Hall, Olympia next year so keep an eye out for the latest developments as they happen. Read more…
Mark your diary for Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th of September 2012!
office* recently featured on the BBC World Service’s Business Daily in a special on ‘Personal Assistants’. The office* show provided a vibrant backdrop for the 18-minute radio broadcast, which aired on 27 December 2011, and sought to examine the role and importance of the PA in the modern workplace.
Recorded live on the second day of office* 2011, Friday 16 September, Business Daily’s host Justin Rowlatt interviews event organiser Diversified Business Communications UK’s managing director Carsten Holm before stepping out on to the show floor to enjoy the sights and sounds of the office* experience for himself.
Commenting on the broadcast, Holm says: “Business Daily is renowned for its coverage of global business issues and trends, so we were delighted that they chose office* to host such an important broadcast. Last year’s office* saw the launch of the UK’s first National PA Day, which aimed to highlight the increasing significance that office professionals play in helping to keep Britain’s offices working. Now, with the help of this broadcast and the launch of new Diversified office* events in Washington DC, Toronto, Sydney and Melbourne later this year, we are doing everything we can to make sure the broader world knows that PAs are some of the most important – and powerful – people in business today!”
Business Daily broadcasts on the BBC World Service’s English radio network, and has a total weekly worldwide reach of 43 million (source: World Service annual audience estimate July 2011). The ‘Personal Assistants’ Business Daily special, features interviews with office* show visitors and exhibitors, including Fortnum and Mason, Pukka Pads, and murodigital, plus popular seminar speaker Sue France, UK National Chairman for EUMA (European Management Assistants), and is available via the BBC’s iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00mc59l or as a podcast until 25 January 2012 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bizdaily#playepisode8.
