First association-built AI tool revolutionizes how planners connect with meeting venues
29 September 2025: IACC, the global association representing business event venue operators, has launched its brand-new website, featuring the first AI-driven venue finder created by an industry association. This innovative tool provides meeting professionals with a faster, smarter, and more accurate way to source venues worldwide, while retaining a traditional search function for added flexibility.
The new platform showcases over 400 IACC-certified hotels, resorts, conference venues, and experiential venues across 18 countries, representing the top 1% of dedicated meeting venues worldwide. It provides planners with advanced search technology and practical resources, while venue operators can access case studies, research, knowledge sharing, and improved account management. Together, these features support more effective meetings and enhance engagement across the IACC community.
Discussing the new website, IACC’s CEO, Mark Cooper, said: “At IACC, our goal has always been to provide super clear support and information to ensure that every meeting, conference, or business event is perfectly matched with the right host environment. Our 2025 Meeting Room of the Future report reinforces just how critical this is, with more than 200 meeting planners identifying the host venue as the number one factor influencing the success of their events. With our new website and the launch of what we believe to be the first AI-driven, globally available venue finder created by an industry association, we are putting a smarter, faster, and more accurate sourcing tool directly in the hands of meeting professionals worldwide.”
Nancy Lindemer, Global Chair of IACC, added: “What makes this launch truly special is the people behind it. Across our global network, IACC members and colleagues have helped shape not just the narrative but the very functionality of this new website. Together, we have created what we believe is the world’s first AI-driven business event search tool built by and for our industry association—using the terminology, specifications, and priorities that matter most to planners and venues alike. This is something to celebrate, and I am confident it will shape the success of our members and of IACC itself for many years to come.”
Visit the new website here – IACCmeetings.com
About IACC:
Founded in 1981, IACC [3] is dedicated to representing a broad spectrum of venues, including hotels, conference, and experiential venues globally, and is, by definition, the future of the meetings industry realised. The association brings together the brightest, most innovative minds from around the globe. IACC elevates the meeting experience by creating a unique point of entry that incorporates the best-in-class meeting venues internationally. IACC membership is a symbol of meeting excellence and exceptional connections amongst the best in the meeting industry. This exclusiveness makes IACC’s members part of an elite group representing the most innovative, forward-thinking, and results-driven meeting venues globally.
All members meet a set of stringent Quality Standards and agree to a Code of Ethics. IACC includes over 400 member conference venues from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Finland, Canada, and the United States.
The IACC Mission Statement: “To bring together the brightest industry minds to promote the best meeting venues, which deliver exceptional meeting experiences. There are meetings… And then there is IACC
Meetings”.
The IACC Vision: “IACC is a global community of passionate people and organisations delivering innovative and exceptional meeting experiences.”
