Convention International I MICE News und Trends aus der MICE – Branche
Mittwoch, 18.11.
Pressekonferenzen
| 10:30-11:00 | Press Conference Room | Malaysia |
| 11:15-11:45 | Press Conference Room | South Africa TourismThe Minister of Tourism in South Africa, Derek Hanekom will attend ibtm world for the first time to speak about some of the plans that the South African government has in investing and growing the greater tourism industry in South Africa. Amanda Kotze-Nhlapo, Chief Convention Bureau Officer and geographical member for Africa to the ICCA Board, will also be in attendance. |
| 12:00-12:30 | Press Conference Room | American Express Meetings & Events Gain insight into trends on a global and regional basis for 2015 and learn about the key macro trends impacting 2016’s meeting industry. Representatives from American Express Meetings & Events will explore the implications and recommended actions for meeting owners to make the most of these trends. |
| 12:45-13:15 | Press Conference Room | International Association of Professional Congress OrganizersAre you standing on the EDGE of the future? What is EDGE? An exciting new educational program from IAPCO: Experts in Dynamic Global Education. |
| 13:30- 14:00 | Press Conference Room | Four Points by Sheraton Sydney Four Points by Sheraton Sydney, Darling Harbor is undergoing a $200 million redevelopment, spearheading the revitalization of Sydney’s Darling Harbor precinct as the leading meeting destination in Australia and Asia Pacific. |
| 14:15- 14:24 | Exhibition Floor, Stand K85 ibtm meeting pods on show | ibtm americaJoin the US team for their press briefing on ibtm america 2016 and hear about the new location for ibtm america 2017. Jaime McAuley, Event Director, ibtm america and Shinu Pillai, Exhibition Manager, ibtm arabia will also demo the new meeting pod format for both ibtm america 2016 and ibtm arabia 2016. American style beer and snacks on tap! |
| 15:00- 15:30 | Press Conference Room | Flanders Meeting & Convention Center AntwerpIntroducing the Flanders Meeting & Convention Center Antwerp (FMCCA), part of the world’s best kept 19th century ZOO right next to a true international railway cathedral. At FMCCA you will experience a magical connection that only happens during live encounters. |
| 15:45- 16:15 | Press Conference Room | Oman Convention & Exhibition CentreJoin the Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre as we highlight the strengths and positioning of the Sultanate of Oman as a world-class knowledge hub. We reveal the secrets behind the Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre as a serious contender for hosting future global conventions, meetings and business events. |
| 16:30- 17:00 | Press Conference Room | XING Events XING EVENTS as a 360° ticketing & promotion partner for the special needs of trade fair organizers. XING EVENTS has developed innovative products and tools that enable a direct communication with the relevant target group via social media while getting greater coverage, less advertising wastage and better acceptance in the relevant target group. |
| EDUCATION AND NETWORKING | ||
| 9:00- 10:00 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | Transferring A Tourism Destination To A Business Tourism Destination – in partnership with IAPCOThe Panel will present 3 case studies from different regions of the world as to how they made this successful transition, educating and engaging their local suppliers, stakeholders, community and governments. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences. |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | The Co-Creation In Meeting Design Process – Session In Collaboration With Iberia ICCA |
| 10:30- 11:30 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | Audio/Visual Boot Camp: Cutting Through The TechnobabbleIn this free-flowing session, meeting production expert Brandt Krueger will explain key audiovisual concepts in an easy-to-understand manner, using simple graphics and drawings. This allows for participant-driven discussion, focused on what audience members want to know more about, rather than traditional top-down presentation models. You can even bring along your most confusing bids and toughest questions – and we’ll see if we can decode them together! |
| 10:55- 11:15 | The Think Tank (Knowledge Village) | Events Uncovered TV: live at ibtm worldIn this series of canapé-sized sessions, Silvia will interview some fascinating successful experts from around the globe to bring you their unique insights from the event industry.New and old events experts will find out better ways of doing things and help their clients with better, greater, fresher ideas/techniques/solutions! |
| 11:00- 12:00 | The Bistro (Knowledge Village) | Connections, Commitment and Communication for Associations – in partnership with ESAEThe session will explore the topic of engagement and communities of practice on the basis that communication is not an innate ability but an acquired skill that needs to be carefully fine-tuned over time in order for a message to be received and understood. It will boost your own thoughts and give you hard-core input to your organisation’s continuous development. |
| 11:30- 12:30 | The Think Tank (Knowledge Village) | How To Transform Your Event Into An Impactful Learning ExperienceDuring this interactive session, you will learn how to transform your traditional event or a meeting into the immersive gathering that will help your participants both learn better and build stronger connections. As a participant, you will have a chance to co-create the session and try the interaction techniques first hand. |
| 11:30-12:30 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | What’s Ahead? … Innovation @ “Future Meeting Space” – in partnership with the German Convention BureauWant to get ahead of the curve for your clients or company? Come learn about “Future Meeting Space” an innovation project and network formed by the German Convention Bureau (GCB), European Associations of Event Centers (EVVC), and the world renowned Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO). |
| 12:00- 13:00 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | Incentive Travel Resource Management In this session, participants will learn how collaboration tools and social networks can help them achieve superior results. Participants will also discuss how new technologies and business trends that impact the way we share information with clients, participants and staff. Along with peers, participants will examine how to leverage technologies in the context of broader business and social trends to make an impact incentive travel programme management. |
| 12:30- 13:30 | The Bistro (Knowledge Village) | How To Organise A Boring EventFrom an ill-thought-out joke tweet to appearing on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, the success of the annual London-based Boring Conference has taken many people by surprise – not least its organiser, James Ward.Intended as a one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the over-looked, the Boring Conference is deliberately designed to stand in opposition to larger, more expensive, more exciting and better organised conferences which promise to change the way you see the world but rarely do. |
| 12:45- 13:05 | The Think Tank (Knowledge Village) | The Chemistry of Choosing a ModeratorNot every good moderator suits every meeting. How do you choose the right moderator for your event? Do you take your chances or do you select the ideal moderator on the right criteria? Learn to choose wisely! |
| 13:00- 14:00 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | American Express 2015 Meetings & Events ForecastGain insight into trends on a global and regional basis for 2016. Learn about the key macro trends impacting the meetings industry in the coming year and what it could mean for your meeting programme. We will explore the implications and recommended actions for meeting owners to make the most of these trends. |
| 13:20-13:40 | The Think Tank (Knowledge Village) | Events Uncovered TV: live at ibtm worldIn this series of canapé-sized sessions, Silvia will interview some fascinating successful experts from around the globe to bring you their unique insights from the event industry.New and old events experts will find out better ways of doing things and help their clients with better, greater, fresher ideas/techniques/solutions! |
| 13:30- 14:15 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | The Colour of MoneyAn average adult reads at a rate of 300 words a minute – but can process an image in 13 milliseconds – we live in a visual world and always have done and that’s where colour comes in. Colour is and “art and science” thing; one of the few expressive variables event marketers have access to. So to make the most of this, the session “the colour of money” crosses the InterBrand top 100 companies with a pantone chart to understand how business uses colour and learn how to make best use of it in the future. |
| 13:50- 14:10 | The Think Tank (Knowledge Village) | Can I Be A Moderator?Many meeting planners/owners will at some point get in a position that they have to decide whether to moderate on stage themselves.This interactive session will help you find out in which sessions you are able to perform, and which meetings you had better hand over to someone else. |
| 14:00- 15:00 | The Bistro (Knowledge Village) | Are You Ready To Find Your Event Magic?Imagine the way you feel when you have seen a completely mind boggling magic trick. Surprised? Engaged? You want to know more, right? So how do we accomplish the same thing with event technology? Four years ago, Founder and CEO of Magency Digital, Vincent Bruneau, was working as a corporate tech illusionist; connecting brand messages to their customers through magic on tablets. Numerous of his clients voiced disappointment in their ability to both innovate and engage their corporate conferences like digital magic. Bruneau knew that if he could bring “magic” and digital to these live experiences, his clients could begin to see strong Return on Engagement and Return on Investment numbers. |
| 14.30 – 15.30 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | Redesign Career: What will be the executive education of the MICE professionals in the coming years? Sign in cooperation with EMA Events Managers SpainHow to succeed in our industry, how to make a difference and design your career? Excellence, internationalization, networking, counseling, creativity … MICE industry professionals face the need for training throughout the career. The demands of the market and an increasingly changing environment posed question of content, formats and profiles that are to develop future training programs in the field of executive education. Will the specialization or the general view is necessary? What value should contribute to the career? How to select a program or institution? How to combine work and training? |
| 14:30- 15:30 | The Think Tank (Knowledge Village) | How To Use Fun And Educational Games To Motivate Your Event ParticipantsIn this session you will learn why games and fun are so motivating and why it increases the meeting participants‘ learning, performance and well-being. You will also get some new very concrete ideas that you can apply at your next meeting, and of course we are going to have fun and try a few games. |
| 14:45- 15:45 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | The Art And Value Of ModerationThis session will address two important elements of moderation. First we will focus on the added value of moderation: why invest in it, what is the ROI? We have mathematical proof, that no meeting can be successful without proper moderation. Secondly, we will work on the art of moderation: how to translate a meeting design into a moderation design. Tone, pace and style for each part of the programme are key elements in this.The basis of our story can be found on: |
| 15:30- 16:30 | The Bistro (Knowledge Village) | The ibtm world Hackathon! |
| 16:00- 17:00 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | Event Tech Lab: On Location In BarcelonaJoin this session for a review of the event technology landscape and how technology can enhance your meetings and events.is deployed. |
| 16:00- 17:00 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events: A Book LaunchRob Davidson and Tony Rogers will officially launch their exciting new book, ‚Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events‘. The two authors will explain how their book will be of immense interest to meetings and events industry professionals as well as to university students. This new book is relevant to everyone who is involved in marketing any type of conference venue and for people employed in convention bureaux and other destination marketing organisations. |
| 18:00- 19:00 | ibtm world Show Floor | Networking Hour – open to all – Enjoy informal networking drinks and performances with exhibitors on their stands |
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Exhibitor Events |
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| 08:00- 18:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand M50 | STAND ANATO 2015 with HOTEL LAS AMÉRICASNetworking Event |
| 11:00- 11:20 | Exhibition Floor, Stand H80 | Japan Seminar (Tuesday) with Japan National Tourism OrganizationInterested in Japan but don’t have time to meet with all our 22 co-exhibitors? The Japan seminar is a 20 minute introduction to all you need to know… |
| 11:00- 11:20 | Exhibition Floor, Stand E15 | Technology trends in meetings with SwedenHow to work smarter? How to use technology before, during and after meetings? How to be more efficient? Martin Klöfver, CEO of Uppsala based TRIPPUS Event… |
| 12:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand G40 | Daily Ice Cream Hour with Meet In Irelandibtm world 2015 is heating up! So, Meet in Ireland have decided to ship over lots of handmade Murphy’s Irish ice-cream to cool us all down. Stop by, meet the team and choose from flavours including a ridiculously chocolatey sorbet, Irish Coffee, Brown Bread or Dingle Sea Salt, made with salt from the wild Atlantic Ocean! |
| 13:00- 15:30 | Exhibition Floor, Stand B16 | Special Cocktail with La Roca VillageNice Cocktail with canapes & cava to meet all our clients & friends in a friendly atmosphere. Come to rediscover our Villages while doing a break on… |
| 13:30- 15:30 | Exhibition Floor, Stand B16 | Chic Outlet Cocktail Reception with Bicester Village |
| 14:00- 14:15 | Exhibition Floor, Stand E15 | the sky is not the limit with SwedenThe sky is not the limit claims Ms.Karin Nilsdotter, CEO of Spaceport Sweden in Kiruna, Swedish Lapland, TED-speaker and thought leader on how to launch new products, experiences and careers, inspiring and empowering talent and startups building a new industry. |
| 15:00- 15:20 | Exhibition Floor, Stand H80 | Japan Seminar (Wednesday) with Japan National Tourism OrganizationInterested in Japan but don’t have time to meet with all our 22 co-exhibitors? The Japan seminar is a 20 minute introduction to all you need to know… |
| 16:30- 18:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand G50 | Happy Hour: Belgian Beer Night with Belgium – VISITFLANDERS, Convention Bureau for Flanders & BrusselsJoin VISITFLANDERS for a Belgian beer and network with top quality suppliers from Flanders. |
| 17:00- 18:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand J18 | Wine Tasting with Toscana Resort Castelfalfi |
| 17:00- 18:30 | Exhibition Floor, Stand H18 | Happy Hour-Japanese Tapas and Sake… with Japan National Tourism OrganizationWe’re bringing Japan to Barcelona with savory washoku tapas and sake cocktails. Visit us on the stand to find out how you can skip the queue! |
| 17:00-19:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand G50 | Meet in Flanders Magazine Launch Party with Belgium – VISITFLANDERS, Convention Bureau for Flanders & BrusselsCelebrate the launch of our brand new Meet in Flanders Magazine. Be among the first to get a copy! |
| 17:00- 19:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand G10 | London Happy Hour with London & PartnersJoin us for a Happy Hour with a twist on the London booth at this year’s ibtm World. Enjoy a glass of prosecco and fine canapes while you explore our… |
| 17:00- 19:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand M30 | Wine Tasting Event with World of DMCsCome by our stand for unbeatable company, delicious wine, and jazzy tunes. Hosted by La Verbena Wines, prominent distributor of fine European wines… |
| 17:00- 18:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand K35 | Refreshing Happy Hour with Pacific WorldGuess the taste! Themed cocktails related to one of Pacific World’s destinations will take place on Tues and Wed from 17.00 to 18.00. |
| 17:00- 18:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand F30 | Postillion Holland Happy Hour with Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions (NBTC)Get in touch with the Dutch during our famous Holland Happy Hour. You’re invited to come by for bubbles, oysters or an ice cold Heineken. Mr Holland… |
| 17:00- 18:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand D50 | REGIONAL BEER TASTING with Nord France Convention Bureau |
| 17:15-19:00 | Stand F20 | Austrian National Tourist OfficeFine Wine Time |
| 18:00- 19:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand D90/D50 | EURO BUZZ 2016 with Paris Convention BureauBe our guest and celebrate with UEFA official partners & Your French mates the upcoming UEFA EURO 2016™ with Football Freestyle Show & initiation, French… |
| 18:00- 20:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand H11 | Stand Cocktail with Prague Convention BureauNetworking event for buyers and partners. |
| 18:00-19:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand D50 | nordic light ice cocktail with Stockholm Convention BureauWelcome to the Scandinavian Pavilion and enjoy a truly ice cold experience! |
| 18:00-19:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand D50 | singapore 50th birthday! with Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau As part of Singapore’s 50 years of independence celebrations, please join us for a drink and some cake at our stand! |
| 18:00-19:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand G80 | EURO 2016 BUZZ with ATOUT FRANCEFrance will be hosting the UEFA EURO 2016 in 10 wonderful MICE destinations. Celebrate it with us! Football freestyle show, DJ, cocktail reception… |
