The annual congress of BOA was one of the first large-scale conferences to take place at the venue following an 18-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. As one of the UK’s biggest medical conferences, this provided P&J Live with the opportunity to showcase the entire venue, with almost all of the conference, meetings, exhibition spaces, and restaurants being utilised over four days.

Duff Bruce, NHS Grampian - Consultant General Surgeon and Clinical Lead was the local organiser of British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society 2020 at P&J Live, Aberdeen. He discusses his experience with P&J Live and VisitAberdeenshire.

"The Centre staff was one of the best we have ever worked with. Not just one person, but all of the staff… event management, A/V, security, food and cleaning staff all were focused on helping us make our event great for the attendees.

Aberdeen was a great location choice. People want to go to Scotland and our attendance numbers were very good because of that. Aberdeen also offered an affordable conference location and was a great place for day trips to explore the culture."

Douglas Tschopp, World Family Therapy Congress

The Annual Scientific meeting of the British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis (BSHT) was the first association event to take place at P&J Live in 2022. 150 delegates from the society were in attendance over 2 days at P&J Live. The conference included plenary talks, presentations and training sessions alongside a poster session, exhibition area and conference dinner – all within the first floor of the venue.

The UK National Conference of The Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) took place at P&J Live from 4th to 6th March 2022. Day one of the conference saw 300 delegates attend P&J Live, with 600 delegates on days two and three. The conference hosted training courses, a main plenary session, a poster display area, exhibition and catering area within the venue’s Baker Hughes Conference & Exhibition Hub.

The Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) Annual Scholarship Meeting took place at P&J Live from 6th-8th July 2022. Delegates travelled from all over the world to attend the three-day conference in Aberdeen. The event encompassed workshops, keynote presentations, oral presentations, e-poster display areas and poster presentations, video presentations, group sessions, an exhibition area and a drinks reception all held within the Baker Hughes Conference & Exhibition Hub.

As a venue, we work closely with VisitScotland, the local government and other local partners to gather a strong competitive bid to bring events to the region. In October 2022, P&J Live hosted the World Energy Council's Executive Assembly & Energy Trilemma Summit which brought together the World Energy Council’s leadership and expert community from nearly 100 countries. The event took place in the Baker Hughes Exhibition & Conference Hub.

Floating Offshore Wind and Cables took place between the 12th & 13th October 2022 at P&J Live. Organised by Scottish Renewables and RenewableUK, the event saw over 1,500 delegates across the two days all within the Baker Hughes Exhibition and Conference Hub. From 2021 the event had tripled in size and included a 4,000 sqm exhibition in the Halls, theatre style content within the exhibition space, 1,000 seat auditorium and a local networking drinks reception.

Jonathan Heastie, Portfolio Director at RX Global talked about his time during the preparation, the build-up and during show time at the 50th anniversary of SPE Offshore Europe Exhibition & Conference. Between Tuesday 5th and Friday 8th of September around 30,000 people attended the show in Aberdeen which utilised the whole venue including our car park which was turned into an exhibition hall especially for the event, the arena, halls A, B & C, conference suites and meeting rooms.