Justin Hawes
Managing Director
Scan Display
South Africa

Experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the exhibitions industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Event Planning, Advertising, Sales, Strategic Planning, and Business Development. Justin is a Chartered accountant.

Silke Schulte
Managing Director
ESG Einkaufs - und Servicegesellschaft mbH
Germany

Silke Schulte has been working in the trade fair industry for more than 30 years. Since 2017, as Managing Director of ESG Einkaufs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH, she has been responsible for the demand-oriented networking of purchasing companies and supplier partners in trade fair, exhibition and event construction. Her interdisciplinary knowledge in these areas distinguishes her as an industry expert.

Already in her teens she had her first contact with temporary architecture. In the course of her commercial training and her first professional years, she discovered her enthusiasm for beautiful and functional interior design elements. Since then she has shared this passion with the designers and realizers of trade fair and event construction projects.

The qualified association manager worked for the FAMAB Kommunikationsverband e.V. for 28 years, including 8 years as deputy managing director. The emphasis of its activity lay in the support of the members within the range of the architects and building of fairs. Here she acquired her expertise through a variety of tasks ranging from strategic to marketing-relevant to technical and design topics. The industry award ADAM, later FAMAB AWARD (today BrandEx Award), she steered in the field of architecture from the identification of categories to the evaluation criteria to the selection and adjudication of juries. As part of the development of the SUSTAINABLE COMPANY industry certificate, she gained insight into the importance of economic, ecological and social sustainability. She sees this as a challenge for temporary architecture. With this awareness, she and her team support ESG’s partners.

Clemens Arnold
Managing Director
2bdifferent
Germany

Clemens Arnold is Managing Director at 2bdifferent - the consulting agency for sustainability in the event industry. With his comprehensive expertise, he advises companies, associations, organizations, event organizers and agencies from the event and sports business, including Baden-Würtemberg International, T-Systems MMS GmbH, Vodafone GmbH, Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH and many more.

With his training as Corporate Responsibility Manager at the University of Bayreuth and as a trainer of the German Sustainability Code, he applies sustainable concepts at companies in the MICE and live communication industry to develop their business operations in a sustainable way. Another field of expertise includes the analysis, evaluation and optimization of trade fairs, congresses, conferences, roadshows, corporate & sports events as well as digital formats according to ecological, social and economic criteria.

He is a member of the jury of the PSI Sustainability Awards. As a lecturer at the TU Chemnitz, the IST University Düsseldorf and the German Hotel Academy Cologne, he teaches "Sustainable Event Management and CSR" to students.