MEET ILEA ALBERTA
Our Chapter History
2019 Spirit of Excellence Award for:
Special Project: DEI Series
2018 Spirit of Excellence Award for:
Excellence in Education and Programming
Chapter Awards + Milestones
ILEA, formally the International Special Events Society, was founded in 1987 to foster enlightened performance through education while promoting ethical conduct. ILEA works to join event and meeting professionals to focus on the "event as a whole" rather than its individual parts. ILEA has grown to involve over 5,500 members active in over 51 chapters throughout the world. The solid peer network ILEA provides helps special events professionals produce outstanding results for clients while establishing positive working relationships with other event colleagues.
For over 25 years ILEA has been a valued and trusted partner in the events industry. An industry that generates over $200 billion for the global economy and supports over four million jobs.
As our association continues to expand and engage, reaching new audiences and markets around the globe, so the ILEA brand continues to evolve. Today, we have a new brand vision and story to tell our clients, colleagues, suppliers and partners. ILEA is changing. We are launching our new vision to become a community of creative event professionals. A community that values creativity as part of our culture and our spirit. A community that is looking to the future with confidence and anticipation, and looking back at our achievements with pride.
In June 2025, ILEA Calgary and ILEA Edmonton Chapters merged to form ILEA Alberta. This newly named provincial chapter will focus delivering programming and education virtually, hybrid and in person across the province. For the first two quarters of the 2025-2026 programming year, in person events will be held in Calgary and Edmonton with plans to expand to the mountain regions, southern and northern regions coming in the spring of 2026.
Want to hear more about ILEA Alberta? Contact us at info@ileaedmonton.com.