Past Events

ICEF Virtual Eurasia successfully hosted 391 international education professionals over three days with participants drawn from 42 countries across four continents, demonstrating a strong, international interest in recruiting students from Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia for education programmes around the world.

ICEF Virtual Secondary Education successfully hosted 569 international education professionals over three days with participants drawn from 84 countries across three continents, demonstrating a strong, international interest in recruiting students for secondary education programmes around the world. Marking our largest ever secondary-focused event, ICEF Virtual Secondary education welcomed a huge 63% more organisations than ever before.

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.

ICEF Virtual South Asia 2021 successfully hosted 226 international education professionals over three days with participants drawn from 19 countries across four continents, demonstrating a continued interest in maintaining and developing connections as educational institutions look to attract students from this important region.

ICEF HE Connect marked an ambitious and successful virtual return for our annual ICEF Higher Education event. With three days of one-on-one meetings, 27 live and on-demand webinars and dedicated networking rooms to encourage chance encounters, ICEF HE Connect brought together more higher education student recruitment professionals than ever before in this new online setting, with a 40% increase in participants versus our previous largest HE event in Helsinki in 2019.

Successfully hosting over 1,550 professionals during 3 days and with participants in 123 countries, ICEF Virtual Berlin facilitated over 16,500 meetings, demonstrating that ICEF networking events are crucial even in times of crisis. Now more than ever, student recruitment professionals from right across the globe are drawn to our events to come together and discuss critical solutions for the future of our industry.

All over Latin America, education agents play a key role in helping students to find suitable study opportunities outside of their home countries. ICEF Latin America has been designed specifically to meet the needs of international education professionals who source students within this unique market and welcomed nearly 330 international education industry professionals over 3 days in October 2020.

In 2020, ICEF Virtual French Education welcomed nearly 150 international education industry professionals over 2 days, hosting over 690 meetings, and showing the tremendous appetite and enthusiasm for international education professionals in this industry niche.

ICEF Virtual Americas maintains a clear focus on Canada and the USA as study destinations. In 2020, this online event welcomed nearly 900 international education industry professionals over 3 days, hosting over 8,750 meetings, and showing the tremendous appetite and enthusiasm for continued networking across the industry, even as global travel is restricted.

ICEF Virtual ANZA maintains a clear focus on Australia and New Zealand as study destinations. In 2020, this online event welcomed 426 international education industry professionals over 3 days, hosting a combined 3,127 meetings, and showing the tremendous appetite and enthusiasm for continued networking across the industry, even with global travel restrictions.