About This Website

We often note to those in our industry, that the better you do your jobs, the easier it looks to those you serve. That theory has never been more true than with the efforts and end results provided by Saffire. They truly listened to our vision and goals and worked with us along every step of the process to help us through a journey that found us navigating unfamiliar turf on a highly inflexible timeline. While I am confident that you will find the results visually obvious, there is so much more going on ‘behind-the-curtain’ that will make the site far more functional for all of our visitors, while enhancing many times over our ability to meet both the current and future needs of all those we serve.

By plan and by nature of the constantly changing needs of the industry that we serve, there are still some functions and capabilities that we are completing, testing and fine-tuning, along with many others that we hope to create and add in the months and years ahead, with the support of Saffire. It was important to us to try and get the new site up and operational leading into our upcoming IFEA 59th Annual Convention & Expo in Kansas City, Missouri, USA this September 29th – October 1st. For now, if you find a link that we missed, or a piece of information that is not yet updated, please understand and help us to find those. Looking to the future, we encourage you to help us imagine what else the site could offer and provide to make it the most powerful hub in our global industry. With your imagination, our commitment and Saffire’s extraordinary capabilities, I am confident that we can achieve great things.

The IFEA is fortunate to count Saffire as one of only four sponsors at our ‘Association Endorsed Partner’ level. To raise their own bar, they have uniquely chosen to focus directly on the events industry, choosing to learn about our needs, our challenges and our opportunities. I would encourage each of you to talk with them firsthand about what they might do for your own events, organizations and online presence.

I thank you for your own active support of the IFEA and our common industry. Now, simply click here to go to our home page and start exploring. There are a few added tips on this page that may be helpful along the way, but I think you will find it to be pretty self-intuitive. Above all, have fun and come back often!
Steven Wood Schmader, CFEE
President & CEO
International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA)
World Headquarters

There are many great features about our new website – one of them being an extensive IFEA Member section, providing detailed information on everything from Member Benefits, complete issues of “ie” magazine, IFEA Templates and Survey Results in addition to accessing the member section of the IFEA Shop where Members are able to purchase everything at a discounted member rate.

If you are a member and would like to log-in to the site, please use your email address (associated with your IFEA Membership) in addition to your password. If you're a member and are unable to log in, please contact Beth Petersen, Director of Member Services at +1-208-433-0950 ext:1 or beth@ifea.com.

Although we hope the website is easy to navigate, there are a few elements and new features that may need a little extra instruction.  Take a moment to view the below instructional video to help you get the most out of the IFEA website. Learn how to:

• Log In to Your Member Profile
  
• Edit Your Member Profile
  
• Add Your Event to the IFEA Member Calendar