About

The Festival

beaworld theinternationalfestival or Bea World Festival – the International Festival of Events and Live Communication – is the essential meeting place and networking event for the international event community. Three inspiring days full of creativity, networking opportunities, knowledge transfer and destination experiences culminate in the ceremonies celebrating the winners of the Best Event Awards and Best Location Awards.

Heads of event agenciescorporate event directors, senior representatives of event associationstrade media from over 40 countries attend the Festival every year to celebrate creativity, exchange ideas and best practices, and create business opportunities.

The next Bea World Festival will take place in November 2022.


The Best Event Awards

logo beaworld besteventaward or The Best Events Awards World stand out as the main international event industry recognition, an initiative to celebrate the best creativity and innovation applied to events. Created in 2006 by ADC Group to foster and advance the importance of events in the marketing plans of companies and organisations, the Best Event Awards have helped participating agencies from 40 countries in finding inspiration and new ideas for their events.

Bea World is open to companies from the event industry based anywhere across the world, including event agencies, public relations, communications, promotions, advertising and web agencies, corporations, public bodies, associations, non-governmental and non-profit organizations, locations, etc.


ADC Group

ADC Group is an Italian based media holding company, co-founded in 2002 by Salvatore Sagone. The group incorporates ADVexpress and e20express communication news agencies, e20 and Nuova Comunicazione magazines. Since 2006 it has organised the Best Event Awards, later grew to a global festival of events and live communication – the Bea World Festival – as well as other Awards and initiatives reserved to the Italian communication and event market (BEA – Italian Best Event Awards, NC Awards, NC Digital Awards).