FESPA, together with its Brazilian partner APS Feiras & Eventos, has announced a new roadshow event – the FESPA Brasil Forum – travelling to six Brazilian cities. The roadshow will be scheduled from September to December, ahead of the next FESPA Brasil exhibition in São Paolo, 6-9 April 2016.

The findings of FESPA’s Print Census – the most far-reaching global industry survey ever conducted by the organisation – expose six overarching trends driving the global wide format and speciality print community.

Yaşar Gűvenen has been inaugurated as the 16th President of FESPA, in a ceremony at the FESPA Awards Gala Dinner at Flora Köln during FESPA 2015 in Cologne, Germany (18-22 May 2015). He accepted the chain of office from outgoing president and fellow FESPA board member Lascelle Barrow, who has served in the role of President since June 2013.

The FESPA Awards 2015 is now closed for entries and FESPA is inviting the print public to vote for their favourite to win the People’s Choice of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards.

As part of its commitment to education and knowledge sharing, FESPA has introduced a new series of technical guides which are available free of charge for members of FESPA’s national associations.

As part of its commitment to funding education and knowledge sharing events for its member community, FESPA has launched its first Nordic Congress, in partnership with its Nordic national associations: FESPA Norway Association, FESPA Finland Association, FESPA Sweden Association and Graphic Association Denmark. The congress titled, ‘Successful Printing – Driving Opportunities’, will take place from 24-25 March 2015 at Axelborg in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Three of FESPA’s national associations are to host a Southern European Congress from 10-11 March, 2015, at the Confortel Barcelona, Spain, with the support of FESPA. FESPA France Association, FESPA España Association (Spain) and SIOTEC Association (Italy) will deliver two days of educational content, networking and knowledge sharing.

FESPA is staging four regional congresses in collaboration with its associations during the first half of 2015, as part of its educational commitment to its global print community. The four congresses will take place in Barcelona, Spain; Copenhagen, Denmark; Mexico City, Mexico and Johannesburg, South Africa.

To continue its engagement with potential buyers of print, FESPA is launching Print Inspiration Rally, an initiative to connect interior designers, architects and creative professionals with innovative examples of wide format print to inspire them to see print as a creative and effective solution to many briefs.

FESPA’s annual awards programme which celebrates print excellence is now open for its 2015 Awards. The global competition is open to any print service provider anywhere in the world, culminating at the prize-giving ceremony at FESPA’s Gala Dinner on 19^th May 2015 during FESPA 2015 in Cologne, Germany.

FESPA’s fourth Digital Textile Conference, which took place on 2nd October 2014 in Milan, Italy, brought together a record-breaking number of delegates to expand their knowledge of digital textile printing.

FESPA will host its fifth Digital Textile Conference on 5 December 2014 alongside FESPA Eurasia 2014 Istanbul. The conference will take place at the WOW Hotel, located opposite the exhibition venue.