There are industry conferences that we’ve all attended and then there are megaindustry conferences. The United Nations Habitat III summit on sustainable urbanization that took place last week easily classifies as the latter.
By official U.N. estimates, more than 30,000 accredited participants from 167 countries attended the four-day gathering. The summit had over 1,000 events, which included eight plenaries, six high-level roundtables, 157 exhibition booths and 460 networking and training sessions.
Other large events may not necessarily rival Habitat III, COP climate summits or other U.N. gatherings in size and scope, but any massive multiday industry conference can still be an equally overwhelming experience in its own right.