"The Summit of Inspiration“
World Summit 2019Athens, Greece | 26-28 June
SPEAKERS: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Ermis Adamantidis
Director at Not a Number Architects
From space installation to urban planning
My presentation
Not a number Architects‘ projects range from space installation to urban planning, design and the development of complex and non-standard architecture. They will present the BVLGARI Pavilion as a temporary installation on behalf of the luxury jewellery brand for Abu Dhabi Art 2012.
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Isabel Bardinet
CEO at European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
End of congress – long live football clubs and 7-sense events
My presentation
Her keynote at the IFES World Summit will summarize her experiences under the Titel: “End of congress – long live football clubs and 7-sense events.“ For those who do not know what she will exactly talk about should attend her presentation at the IFES Summit.
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Isabel Bardinet started her career in the meetings industry in 1988 when she entered SOCFI, a French PCO company. Until 2002, she organized national, international and governmental congresses and presented many international bids and learnt association management.
In 2002 she took over as Executive Sales Director at the Palais des Congrès in Paris and actively participated in the creation and development of the “Leading Venues of Paris”.
In 2005, she joined the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to become the Congress Division Director. The ESC organises over nine congresses a year, including the largest medical congress in Europe and biggest cardiovascular disease congress in the world with over 34 000 participants.
In October 2009 Isabel was appointed CEO of the ESC which currently gathers 6 sub-specialty associations, 15 working groups and 7 councils in addition to the main cardiology association and has more than 95 000 members in over 90 countries.
Isabel Bardinet was president of AC Forum from 2010 to 2012, during which time she created the association management chapter. She was vice president of the Club des Dirigeants of the technopole Sophia Antipolis from 2012-2014. In September 2014, she obtained the Certificate in Corporate Governance from Insead.
In January 2016, Mrs Bardinet was awarded the 2015 PCMA Chairman’s Award, for her creative involvement of the community in advancing the ESC’s mission at ESC Congress 2015, in London UK. In late 2016, she was named one of the twenty five most influential people in the meetings industry. In November 2017, Mrs Bardinet received the JMIC Power and Profile Award, in recognition of individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to advancing the awareness and influence of the Meetings Industry in their respective communities. The winner is selected each year based on criteria which evaluate the efforts of an individual or organization in increasing industry profile and bringing about structural or policy changes that reflect that better appreciation.
Mrs Bardinet is frequently invited to chair and address international congresses, where audience participation is enthusiastic and feedback is excellent. Most recent speaking invitations include presentations addressing evolving Association models as well as leading pharmaceutical and medical device ethics and compliance issues in the European Union.
Recent topics include “Communicating with Health Care Professionals Regarding Participation in Transparency Programmes”, “Moving to new models of support for medical education: Considerations from physicians and scientific societies” and “New Association Models for the Future”.
She is also an invited faculty lecturer for professional development and executive master association management courses, where her presentations rank amongst the most popular.
Vassillios Bartzokas and friends
Dreamer / Do*er / Motivator / Entrepreneur
The Design Ambassador
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Hosted by the Design Ambassador Vassilios Bartzokas some of Greeks most recognized architects and designer will inspire the audience with some of their recent projects
Helen Brasinika
Principal Architect Designer & Co-founder at BllendDesign& Research Office
“we are more than the sum of our parts…so is our environment…”
My Presentation
INNOVATE
Providing service that transcends the application of current design norms or technical standards.
QUESTION
Setting the contextual framework from scratch questioning, analyzing, foot printing the environment following international design research practices JUSTIFY Aspiring change not for the sake of novelty, but employing experiential, educational and research feedback for the design of holistic experiences for the human agents
ENLIVE
The design outcome is not static solution, but a dynamic design organism that grows in line with the natural and built environment via an organic bonding
INTEGRATE
Being a multidisciplinary design firm, the resulting design concept translates into a variety of design applications and identities – be it architecture, furniture design, interior architecture, branded environments, landscape, lighting, or the interweaving of all the diverse disciplines in one project.
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Bllend is a multidisciplinary design and research office developing unique identities in the fields of Architecture, Landscape, Interiors, Furniture and Lighting Design. BllendDesignOffice has acquired a reputation working in residential projects or commercial branded environments that in their majority have received international distinctions, among which the inclusion in the World’s Best 2014-2015 International Property Awards for the Best Leisure & Office Interiors. Developing unique architectural identities involves working in unison with the clients within a contextual research-based framework, to develop a design concept that translates into a variety of design applications- architecture, industrial design, engineering and branding, or the interweaving of various disciplines in one project. The strong contextual impact every project involves empowers the bonding among scapes, materials, form, light & human condition in an organic substance that results in purposeful design for wellness and longevity. To quote Eero Saarinen [ always design a thing by considering it in its larger context- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan…].
Dr. Christian Coppeneur-Gülz
Partner & Managing Director, WWM
Digitalization – Shall we leave the Stage to Google & Co.?
My Presentation
- With a clear focus on process optimization, automation and measurability, Online-Marketing is increasingly expanding its share of marketing budgets. Although the effectiveness of Event-Marketing is never called into question, the event industry still owes the quantitative proof. Learn how technologies like IoT (Internet of Things) and the increasing digitalization enable the Event-Marketing to automate processes, increase efficiency and make its effectiveness measurable. Do we really want to leave the stage to Google & Co?
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After studying business administration in Vallendar, Rome and Los Angeles, Christian Coppeneur-Gülz earned his doctorate degree in information management at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. In the last 15 years Dr. Christian Coppeneur-Gülz has accompanied many incumbents and startups like WWM, Rocketexpo, expocloud on their way in disrupting the exhibition and event industry. For the development of event marketing automation software and automated visitor analysis technology, he has been awarded with the German Innovation Price “We-do-Digital”. Dr. Christian Coppeneur-Gülz is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, investor and business angel.
Myrto Dimitrou
Social Anthropologist, Origami Instructor- Guinness Record Holder, Writer
Folding a piece of paper- unfolding possibilities
My presentation
What can you see by looking at a square piece of paper? Can you imagine that you are folding a paper plane, a boat or even a crane? So, you can actually transform a two-dimensional object into a 3d creation. But can a piece of paper inspire you enough to see the world differently?
And what will happen if you combine art, science and math?
In a single fold we can bend reality, time and space… I’m looking forward to unfold it with you!
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Born in Thessaloniki in 1983, living in Athens for the past years. Graduated from the Department of Social Policy and Social Anthropology, Panteion University (with scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation/IKY). Studied Theater and Communication at Ithaca College, New York. Member of the Greek IBBY (Board on books for Young People), member of UNIMA (Association of Puppeteers), founding member of the Hellenic Association for Narration. She was a co-owner of “Fantasy group” organizing children’s events and educational programs in Thessaloniki.
From the age of eleven and till 2013 she was hosting television and radio broadcasts for children and culture. She participated in many theater productions, and movies for the National Television (ET3 channel). She had the role of Louisa at “The sound of music” with Alice Vougiouklaki. She presented performances narrating fairy tales in cooperation with the Film Festival of Thessaloniki. For three years she was teaching theater, arts and crafts at YMCA of Kalamaria.
She is an Origami Instructor, having her diploma from the Nippon Origami Association, and twice Guinness Record Holder.
In collaboration with the Municipality of Thessaloniki, the Department of Youth, under the auspices of the Japanese Embassy on 31 May 2012 she created the world’s largest Origami Mosaic for Guinness World Records. She trained about 10,000 people, who folded a piece of paper to create the unit, a water-lily, placed in Aristotelous Square in order to form the image of the White Tower in 403 sq. meters with 40,000 lilies!
On 18.03.2014 with the participation of 20.000 people she created the largest paper owl of 512 sq. meters for Guinness Record, with paper water-lilies in Athens, at Mets Stadium, in cooperation with the Municipality of Athens, under the auspices of the Japanese Embassy, the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Environment, the General Secretariat for Youth, and the cooperation of Athens-Attica Hotel Association.
As a Social Anthropologist she combined the Greek folk art with the Japanese art of paper-folding, representing Greek embroidery patterns from the collection of Amalia Megapanou, Benaki Museum. She also created “Mosaic-origami” a series of works inspired by the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. Other series of works include the musical instruments of ancient Greece, wreaths of Vergina as well as the monsters of Greek mythology.
She has taught origami at Meisei University in Tokyo, while her works are hosted in Origami Museum in Tokyo, the Japanese Embassy as well as in private and public collections. She created the origami that was used in the movie “History Zero” by Stefanos Tsivopoulos, who represented Greece at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia 2013.
Has held many solo exhibitions and has an active participation in international Origami conferences. She presents educational programs for children, workshops for adults, she uses the art of origami in order to organize team-building events, and she creates unique origami gifts for companies and organizations.
She has written the books “Origami with fantasy!”, “10 decoration and flowers with origami” and “10 sea-life origami” Kaleidoscope Publisher, and the fairy tale “The Adventures of Frixos” Dia Viou Publisher.
Dimitris Koliadimas
Owner / Creative Director at Semiotik
The Volvo case
My presentation
In the context of our long-standing partnership with Volvo Cars, we conceptualize and design
a variety of applications to serve diverse marketing and communication needs.
Every time we design for Volvo, we have to reconcile very strict brand guidelines with the
need to be authentic and original. Our projects involve creating materials to support
marketing activities, so we focus on highlighting the brand’s unique values and creating very
varied applications that are ideally suited to each distinct event or activity. Materiality plays
an important role, as it invokes both the tactile feeling of a new car and the premium
character that people expect of the Volvo brand.
The concepts we develop and design for Volvo support and enhance the brand’s positioning
and strengthen the promise of a unique, premium experience inherent in Volvo marketing.
A special project we were commissioned to develop for Volvo, was the brand identity for the
2011–2012 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. For the 2014–2015 edition, we collaborated
with the race’s brand management team to update the original design system, to enhance
clarity and simplicity and enrich the cross–media experience. And for the 2017–2018 edition,
we consulted with the organizers for the continued successful implementation of the brand
identity system.
Our close collaboration with the brand management team made it possible to realize a
strategic, distinctive design approach that was then diversified and applied across different
formats, including environmental installations, mobile applications, interactive and digital
media, port branding, printed material, and TV graphics. We wanted to incorporate core
values of the VOR brand, based on the pre-existing “splash” concept, so we created the New
Splash – Reinforced Dynamics. The abstract form of the water splash became the significant
element of the new graphic environment. The water dynamics were visually translated into
forms that correspond to the notion of randomness, in a standardized visual system.
Our continued and evolving relationship with the Volvo Ocean Race organization has allowed
us to invest deeply into strategic brand identity development, creating solutions that respond
to the event’s evolving requirements with each new iteration, and providing the brand
management team with the service package that best suits their needs at each point in time,
including brand strategy, design, and consultation.
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Dimitris Koliadimas is the founder and creative director of Semiotik Design Agency. In 2003, He graduated from the London College of Communication with an MA in Typo/Graphic Studies. In 2005, he co-founded the Designers United creative agency, and in 2014 he
established Semiotik. From 2005 until the present, he and his team have won numerous national and international distinctions for their work, including D&AD, Red Dot Design Awards and European Design Awards. He has been fortunate to collaborate with exceptional people and great organisations around the world. He works with multinational brands and provides a wide range of design and consulting services, performing in complex environments and achieving remarkable results. He believes in constant learning and progress through collaboration. Simplicity drives his way of thinking. Deep research, understanding and a holistic approach are the foundations of his working process.
Peter Economides
Brand Strategist
Under the Volcano
My Presentation
We live in disruptive times. Driven by technology, and fuelled by rapidly evolving consumer expectations, CEO’s across industries are facing the urgent need to transform their businesses. Threats often appear where they are least expected; outside of traditional industry boundaries, often from start-ups. Business needs to be flexible. But business needs consistency. Consistency comes through culture. A motivating and engaging narrative, based on a strongly held belief and value system, expressed inside and outside the organization. This is what a powerful brand provides; it guides internal behavior whilst it establishes external expectations:
It creates alignment. It connects business with society. It enables change in the face of disruption. Peter Economides will draw on his considerable experience with some of the world’s leading corporations to share his thoughts on what it takes to build a powerful, sustainable brand in these times of rapid change.
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Peter Economides is a global brand strategist, based in Athens. He is owner and founder of Felix BNI, Peter is a former Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Client Services at global advertising agency McCann Erickson Worldwide and Head of Global Clients at TBWA\Worldwide. Peter’s work is focussed on
change – on the strategic responses to shifting culture, consumer habits and behavior,
and the challenges of regional and global expansion. He played a founding role in
the establishment of the Orange Grove, the startup incubator initiated by the Embassy of the
Netherlands in Greece. Peter has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Hellenic Council of America and his work has been recognized by the US Congress. He is the
former Chairman of the Board at leading global charity, Make-A Wish International, based in
Phoenix, Arizona.
Ilias Papageorgiou
Greek architect and founder of PILA
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Ilias Papageorgiou is a Greek architect and founder of PILA. He brings extensive experience from Europe and America, having led the design and realization of high profile cultural, commercial and residential projects around the world. Prior to founding PILA, Ilias was a partner at SO-IL in New York, collaborating with clients including MINI/BMW, Versace, Google, AirBnB, Frieze Art Fair, Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis, the Guggenheim Museum, and the New Museum in New York.
Ilias’s work has been internationally recognized, having been awarded as a Curbed Groundbreaker, Architects under 50, Domes International Review of Architecture Awards, and the Young Greek Architects Awards. His work has been widely published and exhibited in institutions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York and the Benaki Museum in Athens.
Ilias was born in Athens, Greece and studied architecture at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. In addition to his practice, Ilias is a frequent lecturer and panelist at leading design institutions. Ilias is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, and has previously taught at Tulane University and University of Thessaly. He co- authored solid objectives: order, edge, aura, published by Lars Müller Publishers and was an Ideas City Fellow, a platform for urbanism organized by the New Museum.
Charles Pappas
Senior writer at Exhibitor, author of Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords, and It's a Bitter Little World.
How the World’s Fairs Changed Your Life
My presentation
From the first world’s fair in 1851 in London to the next one in 2020 in Dubai, these global exhibitions have become the greatest change agent in history. Every time you plug your phone into a wall socket, flick on a television, get an X-ray, lick an ice-cream cone, ride an elevator, use a touchscreen, pack something in a Louis Vuitton suitcase, or drink a glass of burgundy, you’re doing something that originated at or was popularized at a world’s fair.
This presentation will survey some of the greatest exhibits in world’s fair history, including those of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, China, France, and the US, with a look ahead to the wonders Expo2020 will bring.
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Charles Pappas has covered the expo industry for Exhibitor magazine since 2002 and is its de facto historian. Previously, he was the investigative reporter for Yahoo Internet Life, and a technology writer for many other publications. In the last few years his articles have won numerous national and regional awards. His books include “Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords,” a probe of how world expos and trade fairs shaped history, and “It’s a Bitter Little World,” a revel in the tawdry language of film noir.
Panagiotis Podimatas
CEO of P.C.PODIMATAS S.A. President of the Organising Committee of the Athens Flying Week
When economy drives your creativity
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Panagiotis Podimatas was born in 1965. He studied in the Financial Department of University of Athens.
In 1984 he founded, with the assistance of his father, the company “P.C. PODIMATAS AUDIOVISUAL S.A.”. The company focuses on sales and rental of simultaneous interpretation and a wide range of professional audiovisual equipment as well as lighting, multimedia and scenery.
The company eventually developed and opened, shortly after, two branch offices in Greece (Thessaloniki and Crete), as well as a branch in Belgrade, Serbia. Nowadays, the company has a permanent workforce of 50 people.
P.C. PODIMATAS AUDIOVISUAL S.A., counts numerous achievements, among them the productions of the Olympic Games “Athens 2004”, the Summit of the European Union – Rhodes 1989, Corfu 1994, Halkidiki 2003, the conference of OSCE – Athens 2009 and Belgrade 2015, the opening ceremony of the Acropolis Museum, and many others.
In 2004, he was elected Vice President of the Council of the Hellenic Association of Professional Congress Organizers (HAPCO).
In 2006 he founded in cooperation with Mr. Dimitris Anastasiou, an architectural company PPDA archdesign Group as a way to enhance the event business.
From January 2010 up to January 2014 Panagiotis Podimatas was President of the Congress Rental Network (CRN), in which P. C. Podimatas Audiovisual S.A. existed as a member since 1987. The CRN is an organization which has members in more than 45 countries around the world and it is worth noting that Panagiotis Podimatas is the first Greek in the history of CRN who was elected as Chairman.
Finally, in September 2012, Panagiotis Podimatas moves forward and founds Athens Flying Week, a unique aviation week of events in Athens. Athens Flying Week has been having a successful presence for the last seven years in a row and is now institutionalized as one of the largest aviation events in Europe and one of the major thematic events in our country.
Dimitris Protopsaltou
General Director at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)
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As SNFCC Chief Executive Officer, Dimitris Protopsaltou is responsible for operations of the SNFCC, including the management of all business units within the organisation.
He is a passionate advocate for maintaining the SNFCC sustainability culture and values. In 2018, SNFCC presented its first sustainability report, the first of its kind published by a Greek cultural institution of such scale. (http://goo.gl/pJLSQZ)
Dimitris believes that the Library, the Opera and the Park at the SNFCC can make Greece a better place. The SNFCC demonstrates the public space of the future; a public space that serves as “extension of home, work, and recreation” for community members; a space of learning and creativity, open to everyone, with abundant and equitable access to information and knowledge; a space that empowers and inspires people.
Before joining SNFCC, Dimitris co-founded Future Library with the exclusive donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Future Library is a non-profit organisation with the aim to develop a network of public libraries in Greece which will further be linked to the National Library of Greece, when this moves to its new premises, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Future Library has advanced its operations in 11 countries in the Balkans region and developed the International Network of Emerging Library Innovators funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dimitris began his career at MIRALab in Geneva/Switzerland as a research assistant, a post doc and later as scientific collaborator in computer animation and information systems. He is a graduate of the UMIST in the UK and holds a PhD from the University of Geneva.
Dimitris A. Tsouchlos
Master Executive Coach & Organizational Developer
Inspiration for the inspirator
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Most –if not all- of the information that the participants are going to obtain during these 3 days will focus on the latest developments of the outside world (i.e. the markets, the architectures, the materials, the lighting, the technologies, etc.) This presentation (or better yet this inspiration) will focus on the latest developments of the …inside world. What happens within ourselves and what neuroscience and psychology have to say about how you could (and should) use your mind, body and soul?
More explicitly we will focus on how the brain functions and how YOU can actively interfere in its structure so as to positively affect your results. Our main focus will be on one of the latest and greatest discoveries of neuroscience called neuroplasticity. The ability of the brain to form itself. Or as Deepak Chopra says, “brain creates mind and mind creates brain”. And although this presentation is all about science, it will transmit its messages in a very simple (not simplistic) and memorable way.
So, what is the architecture of this intervention? First of all we’re going to havea broad overviewof the way our brain is ‘constructed’. This is especially useful information -and not just for people in this line of business where architecture plays an integral role. How the neurons and their synapses form neuropath ways and how these affect us? And -more importantly- how we can affect them? Secondly we’re going to have an interactive game –called Appreciative Inquiry- that will give everyone in the audience a live demonstration of what is happening in us when we’re using our brain in a certain way. And thirdly we are going to give people three very powerful tools so as to actively affect their own neuropath ways and create some awesome changes in their lives.
There are three tools that we will give to the attendants. They are simple to understand, easy to use and extremely effective once you put them to work. Alas in order to learn and apply all these things you’ll have to wait till June.
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Who?
For more than 25 years I was leading a “double life”. On the one, as a C-Suite executive in advertising agencies, TV channels and TV production houses, I was competitive, aggressive and focused on achieving company goals, top and bottom line results. On the other, as a trainer and group facilitator in one of the most recognized systemic therapy centers, I was supportive, compassionate and focused on building people centric relationships. Convinced that these two ingredients -the “hard” and the “soft”- were incompatible, I kept these twoidentities apart. Until one day I realized that they are not only related, but also interconnected and interdependent.
What?
By combining them as an Executive Coach, I discovered that I could effectively support people insetting, achieving and often exceeding their desired goals –both as individuals as well as members and leaders of Teams and Organizations- while at the same time enjoying the ‘journey’.
Way?
By connecting them. First of all with themselves; their hidden abilities and talents, their core values and inner confidence, their life’s meaning and purpose. Secondly, with their teams and organizations; reinforcing their sense of belonging, sharing and contributing towards a common purpose. And, last but not least, with their lives; their family, their inner and outer circles and the overall environment in which they live, relate and contribute.
With?
During the past 6 years my associates and I had the joy and privilege of working with people from many leading Organizations such as AB VASILOPOULOS (Delhaize group), AIA (AthensInternational Airport), ASTRA-ZENECA, BIC, BP, CITIBANK, COCA-COLA 3E, COSMOTE, ELPEN, FIRSTDATA, FRANMAN, GERMANOS, INTERAMERICAN, KOSMOCAR, L’OREAL, MARINETRAFFIC, MEDTRONIC, MONDELEZ, MSPS, ΝΝ, NOVARTIS, OMEGAPHARMA, P&G, PEPSICO, SCA, SEB, TECHNOMAR, TELEPERFORMANCE, ΤΝΤSkypak, VOLVO CAR HELLAS, ExecutiveSchoolssuch as ΕΕDΕ, ΕΙΑS, HΙAA, OTE Academy, Universitiessuch ad UAEB and UNIPI and NGO’ssuch as KETHEA and ARSIS and manymore.
& Why?
“Hard” ingredients can be easily quantified and fitted in a spreadsheet. Their essence is compact. And as such they offer an easy way to evaluate performance, KPIs, request a bonus and/or ultimately hide behind them. On the other hand, “soft” ingredients are the real reason we actually do what we do. Yet, in an intricate way, “hard” is -most of the times- easy and “soft” is …hard.
So, through this systemic coaching process, what People and Organizations come to discover is that, by mixing the two, far superior results are generated, not only in an intangible level – communication, collaboration and engagement- but also in a very tangible one –growth, effectiveness and bottom line results.
Jochen Witt
President and CEO at JWC gmbh
Can economy inspire you – Follow up Chicago / Eyes to China
my presentation
Today’s trade fair business takes place in an extremely competitive environment with exhibition space overcapacities in many markets and an increasingly fragmented and overloaded event landscape. In addition, shows must compete with other media and communication agencies for the budgets of their customers. Furthermore, trade fair organizers are looking for a way to extend their value chain, as there is hardly any room left for new trade fair concepts.
Is now the time for organizers to expand their foothold in the service industry? Are they discovering trade fair construction as a business model for themselves? Jochen Witt will address this question in his presentation And everyone who has already heard him in Chicago knows that attention should be paid to his analysis if you want to continue to position yourself successfully in the industry in the future.
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and conference business. jwc provides consulting services in the areas of Strategy and Business Development,
Pricing of Trade Fair Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Planning and Construction of Venues, as well as Business Intelligence. jwc’s clients are based in Europe, Asia, Middle East and the Americas. The firm is providing services to trade fair and congress organizers, venue owners and managers, service providers, publishing companies, private equity companies, and governments.
Prior to assuming his current position, Jochen held the position of President and CEO of Koelnmesse GmbH from 1998 until April 2007. During that time he successfully managed the international expansion of Koelnmesse’s portfolio, the expansion of the service business and the modernization of the exhibition grounds in Cologne.