Davide Veglia founded ABTS Convention Services in 1995 as a 25-year-old international travel and tourism student in South Florida. He had identified a gap that no one else was filling: international physicians traveling to U.S. medical meetings had no dedicated partner who spoke their languages, understood their cultures, or managed the logistics of getting them from their home countries to the meeting. 

He built ABTS to fill that gap. Over 31 years, the company grew into a global partner for medical associations, serving dozens of the largest U.S. medical meetings and supporting hundreds of thousands of international attendees. ABTS expanded from a single service into five divisions with offices in Miami and Belgrade and a multilingual team operating across continents. 

Davide was known across the medical meetings industry for his personal involvement in every client relationship, his fierce loyalty, and his belief that international attendance strengthens the global reach of medical education. 

Davide passed away on March 25, 2026, in a tragic accident. He is survived by his family. 

In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to https://waterkeeper.org/stand-with-maranon-waterkeeper/