With 49 shows and a host of supermodels, last June's was Latin America's biggest fashion event, attracting buyers from all around the world.
According to St John Burkett, one of the organisers of the championships – a 50-year-old event attracting 400 players – there's an art to picking the right conker.
Next Tuesday sees the start of France's top antiques fair, the Antiques Biennale, an event attracting over 100 antique dealers and 90,000 collectors.
In just five years it has become Soweto's biggest urban event, attracting the attention of major brands, South Africa's biggest artists, and young people from across Johannesburg.
This is Gamescom, the gaming industry's biggest annual event, attracting almost 300,000 ardent fans who are on the frontline of a battle that will soon be fought in living rooms across the world.
Schlumberger were the "gold" sponsors of the conference, a two-day event attracting around a 100 delegates to discuss how to unlock Somalia's potentially vast, and so far untapped, oil and gas reserves.
