What's driving the growth of so many B2B events?
NYU economist Dan Altman told event producers convened at last week's CEIR Predict he pins the growth to three factors:
- Governments keep spending more on healthcare
- Adults are going back to school to study
- New households are forming nationwide
Those economic engines are stoking five particular sectors of shows—the five most robust of the 14 sectors tracked by the CEIR Index:
- Medical and healthcare;
- Communications and IT;
- Education;
- Raw materials and science; and
- Business services
Do immanent threats jeopardize the continued growth of these sectors?
Altman thinks so. He named 10 sources of worry:
- Economic stagnation in Spain and Italy
- Economic uncertainty in Germany
- Terrorism in France
- Brexit
- Economic stagnation in Japan
- Economic uncertainty in China
- Economic uncertainty in Brazil, Russia and India
- Uncertainty in US capital markets
- Uncertainty in US politics
- Ineffective Fed policy
Anybody have any aspirin?
