About ICEF Events

With 25 years of hosting ICEF Berlin, we are proud that it has become the leading networking event for the international education industry. Professionals from right across the study abroad sector attend ICEF Berlin every year to build new partnerships and strengthen existing connections.

ICEF HE Connect is a new virtual event for student mobility professionals focusing on higher education.

This exciting new concept provides interactive knowledge exchange, networking opportunities, and an extended community for tertiary education institutions and selected higher education-focused agents dedicated to sending international students abroad.

ICEF Virtual South Asia will feature the largest gathering of high-quality, ICEF-screened education agents from across the region. Bringing a dedicated focus on South Asia, this new event will showcase standout student recruitment agents from across India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, allowing education and service providers to conveniently meet with new partners in the region at one convenient event. 

In 2021, ICEF Dubai returns as a virtual event: ICEF Virtual MENA. This time, the event enhances its focus specifically on the territories of the Middle East and North Africa, helping education institutions target expert recruitment agent partners within this region.

MENA represents an attractive source of students for leading education institutions and it’s easy to see why many are looking to expand their recruitment efforts within the region.

Unique amongst our event schedule, ICEF Virtual Secondary Education provides a dedicated networking opportunity for international providers of secondary, boarding, high school, foundation, and junior education programmes.

The event proudly features the largest gathering of ICEF-screened secondary education agents with a focus on the secondary education sector anywhere in the world.

ICEF Virtual Eurasia is an exciting new networking event dedicated to helping education institutions around the world identify new student recruitment partners and refresh existing relationships with agents across Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

ICEF ANZA is the international education industry’s largest networking event focused solely on the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Every year, more than 100 Australian and New Zealander education providers from all sectors join us. Alongside these institutions, over 200 student recruitment agents with a focus on Australia and New Zealand, and service providers also participate.

ICEF Vancouver gives education providers from across the Americas the opportunity to meet high quality, carefully-screened international student recruitment agents from around the world.

More than 1,000 education professionals join us every year for an unmatched programme of business meetings, insightful seminars and industry presentations.

ICEF French Education - Canada provides a targeted opportunity for Canadian education providers promoting programmes taught in French to meet top-quality, focused student recruitment agents from around the globe.

The event takes place shortly after ICEF Vancouver, allowing those participants who are attending in person to target their recruitment efforts for English and French programmes in one trip.

Following its success in 2019 and 2020, ICEF Africa returns in 2021 as a virtual networking event dedicated to meeting the needs of international education providers looking to attract students from the continent.

The event is a standout opportunity for educational institutions around the world to access these emerging student markets and pro-actively market their institutions to would-be recruitment partners.

ICEF Virtual Asia is an exciting new online event designed specifically to meet the needs of international education professionals from across Asia.

Bringing together colleagues from right across the region, we are proud that this event provides the region’s best networking community for professionals with an interest in countries including South Korea, Japan, The Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.

ICEF Higher Education is the only annual agent networking event catering specifically to the higher education sector, enabling you to engage with highly qualified and carefully-selected student recruitment agencies from all over the world.

All agents at this event are focused on higher education and represent all main international student recruitment regions: Turkey, Russia, India, Ukraine, Nigeria, Pakistan, Colombia, Morocco, Sweden, Iran, and more.

ICEF Latin America brings together high quality, carefully-screened student recruitment agents from Latin America and education providers from all over the world.

Agents who attend this event often specialise in student recruitment from the following regions: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

ICEF China in Beijing is the largest and most established agent networking event of its kind in the region. Offering international education professionals unrivalled access into China and its unique educational environment, ICEF China brings representation from across 24 Chinese regions.

As well as enabling participants to meet with top quality ICEF-screened agents from China, ICEF Asia also features standout student recruitment agents from 11 other Asian countries.

ICEF Berlin gives you the international education industry’s largest networking event, and the world’s most comprehensive way to keep up with the latest developments in the international education sector.

Attendees can hold up to 40 one-to-one business meetings with other conference attendees over the course of the event and attend a range of insightful seminars, covering issues affecting the world of international education.

ICEF Miami is an ideal opportunity for education institutions from the Americas to benefit from a large number of top quality student recruitment agents committed to building lasting partnerships and sending students to the region.

This packed event allows participants to schedule up to 38 one-to-one business meetings, and enjoy various market intelligence seminars and industry presentations.