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Austen Hawkins - Five Senses Media

Austen Hawkins

Managing Director, Five Senses Media

Austen Hawkins is a highly experienced exhibition and events entrepreneur, and former CEO and Chairman of the Association of Exhibition Organisers (AEO). He launched his first exhibition business in 2004 and over the following two decades built and sold a successful consumer exhibitions portfolio, pioneering several new market-leading event formats.
 

In 2022, Austen founded Five Senses Media, which now owns and operates both B2B and B2C events across Europe, Asia and Australia. A serial launcher, Austen continues to develop new exhibitions, conferences and awards, with events delivered in cities including London, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Barcelona, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Bangkok and Mumbai.

Testimonials

  • A huge thank you for the awards on Friday! It's one of the best awards I've been to in a while! The choice of entertainment was excellent, Dara O Briain was hilarious and it was just generally a brilliantly organised, fun day. Thank you to the whole team for your hard work. You're all fabulous.
    Julia Danmeri
    CEO & Founder, TranslateAble
  • I wanted to congratulate you both, and the wider AEO team, on such a fantastic awards ceremony last week. I have not attended the AEO Awards for several years, and perhaps I forgot just how much of a special day it is… it was incredibly well organised, and it was such a wonderful occasion.
    Ashley Roberts
    Managing Director, CONNECT
  • What a fantastic AEO Awards last Friday; such a buzz and a brilliant afternoon all round. Thank you all for putting on such a fabulous event. What Else Events will be back next year with an even stronger case. For now, being a Finalist is a major achievement in such a competitive category.
    Tim Else
    Founder & Managing Director, What Else Events

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