Conferences

The IMP Conference The IMP Conference is the largest in the world dealing specifically with marketing, purchasing and technological development in a business-to-business context. The aim of the conference is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal. Participants get to present research results at any stage of development in a challenging but supportive atmosphere. The conference also have a Doctoral Consortium targeted specifically at doctorial students and early stage PhD projects, which aims to bring together junior and senior IMP researchers for knowledge exchange and paper discussions. IMP Forum Seminar The seminar is a smaller forum that focuses on presentations and detailed discussions of conceptual, empirical and methodological research papers that are aimed for development and publication in the IMP Forum within the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (JBIM). The aim of the seminar is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal. IMP Asia Every second or third year a smaller conference (compared with the main IMP Conference) is held in Asia. The aim of the conference is to maximise discussions and interactions among researchers at all career stages, and the style is informal.

UPCOMING conferences

2026 – Ancona, Italy

Past conferences

2025 – Gothenburg, Sweden
2024 – Oulu, Finland
2023 -Manchester, UK
2022 – Okinawa, Japan
2022 – The School of Economics and Management at the University of Florence
2021 – UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK AND WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – IRELAND (virtual)
2020 – Örebro, Sweden
2019 – Paris, France
2018 – Sri Lanka
2018 – Marseille, France
2017 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2016 – Poznan, Poland
2016 – Cape Town
2015 – Kolding, Denmark
2014 – Bordeaux, France
2013 – Atlanta, Georgia
2012 – Rome, Italy
2011 – Glasgow, Scotland
2010 – Budapest, Hungary
2009 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2009 – Marseille, France
2008 – Uppsala, Sweden
2007 – Phuket, Thailand
2007 – Manchester, UK
2006 – Milan, Italy
2005 – Phuket, Thailand
2005 – Rotterdam, Netherlands
2004 – Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 – Lugano, Switzerland
2002 – Perth, Australia
2002 – Dijon, France
2001 – Oslo, Norway
2000 – Bath, U.K
1999 – Dublin, Ireland