Convention International I MICE News und Trends aus der MICE – Branche
Donnerstag, 19.11.
Pressekonferenzen
| Time | Location | Activity Description |
| 10:30- 11:00 | Press Conference Room | European Cities Marketing European Cities Marketing is going global, now exporting its ECM Summer School outside Europe. The first edition of the so-called ECM Academy will be organized in Johannesburg, South Africa from February 19-22, 2016. Like its sister the ECM Summer School, the ECM Academy will be the bridge for African professionals to build a successful career in the Meetings Industry. |
| 11:15- 11:45 | Press Conference Room | Hyderabad Convention Visitors BureauHyderbad will host the world’s largest Infectious Disease conference in 2016. The congress traditionally brings 3,000 delegates; in India, organizers are expecting over 4,500, a large number from India’s enormous pool of specialists. |
| 12:00- 12:30 | Press Conference Room | Ukraine Kyiv Convention & Visitors Bureau launched in 2015 with Kyiv Meetings & Events Representation as the main operation. Not even a year old, they have already received first RFP for a big Event for 2019. That means not only a resurrection of Meetings & Incentives, but a full Ukrainian come-back to the Meetings & Events World Industry. |
| 12:45- 13:15 | Press Conference Room | EventMobiEventMobi is partnering with Queen Margaret University and various industry influencers to create and share an event technology curriculum for event management programs around the world. By connecting with students and event planners through grassroots programs, they are elevating the importance of face-to-face events across North America and Europe while helping professionalize underdeveloped regions. |
| Education and Networking | ||
| 09:00 – 10:00 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | The ibtm world Industry Trends Watch 2015 (repeat)REPEAT: Join this ever popular session to get the up-to-date insights and knowledge of key global trends that will help you shape your business strategy. |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | Negative Brainstorming: Using The Power Of The “Pre-Mortem” To Reveal Problems Before They HappenThis interactive session is designed to get participants thinking creatively, and critically, about their events and meetings. More importantly, it encourages them to put themselves in the place of their attendees, and to consider their point of view in all aspects of the meeting experience. Participants are first guided through a brainstorm process centering on designing the worst possible experience across all aspects of a typical meeting or event.After creating the list of things that could go wrong, participants then go through the list to determine what could be done differently to prevent each item. |
| 10:00- 11:00 | The Think (Knowledge Village) | Association Psychoanalysis – in partnership with ESAE‘Lie down’ and talk about your problems. This session is built around analysing association core topics at 5 roundtables to ask all participants to tackle the provocative questions no one has dared to tackle before. The time will be used to analyse each topic in-depth as part of a roundtable workshop and come up with a solution framework to take home. Everyone’s input to the solution formulations will be required for the benefit of all. As we discuss common and even individual problems, we will learn about creative problem solving and solution finding techniques to send everyone home with their own prescriptions.Learning Outcomes:
-Problem analysis and formulated solutions. -Learn to communicate your challenges and enter the world of creative solution finding via innovative tools that help you analyse your problems. |
| 10:00- 10:45 | The Bistro (Knowledge Village) | Partner Perspectives: A Walk In My Shoes (Planners & Venue Partners Working Together)We are going to roll up the sleeves in this session and just be honest. Planners – this is your chance to tell Venue Partners everything you ever wanted to say. Hotels & Venues – what would you dearly love to ask/say to a Planner without the pressure of losing a piece of business? This is your chance! |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | Come and Play The MeetingDesign Game!Meeting design is a hot topic in the meeting industry, but how do you actually plan a meeting, in which you apply meeting design? In this workshop you can try the innovative new Meetingdesign Game; a card game and planning tool that helps you make the right choices when you plan your meeting or event. The game is easy to play and understand. The game is developed by Ann Hansen and Bo Krüger, two experienced meeting designers. |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | The Bistro (Knowledge Village) | Creating ROI Through Social MediaJason Allan Scott is an event start-up consultant, helping people start event businesses, and venues generate more event sales through many channels, one of which is social media. He was an instructor for twitter for events when Twitter began and recently, to prove he knew what he was doing, demonstrated this by going from unknown to top of Double Dutch’s top 250 people in events in the world on twitter in 3 weeks. And is still Number 1. Jason will explain the profile for the top social media platforms, so you can learn how to utilize each one for your event business concerns and determine which ones fit your needs best. |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | The professional awards as a tool for business improvement – Session in collaboration with Site (Spanish Education Programme)This session aims to gather the experience of companies awarded in some of the most prestigious awards in the MICE sector and know what accounted for their organizations received awards . |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | The Think Tank (Knowledge Village) | Interaction Tools and Techniques to Make Your Next Meeting More ProductiveIt’s no secret that many of us would rather be doing actual work than attending a meeting. With so much time and money wasted on ineffective meetings, we begin to doubt their purpose and value. But meetings, if done right, have the potential to increase productivity of your team members and unleash their innovative ideas. |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | The professional awards as a tool for business improvement – Session in collaboration with SiteThis session aims to gather the experience of companies awarded in some of the most prestigious awards in the MICE sector and know what accounted for their organizations received awards. |
| 12:00- 12:45 | The Garden (Knowledge Village) | Trust Me – Stop Selling In Order To Sell MoreIn this workshop you will learn -•What to write in the Proposal to get them to call you back!
•What the Planner needs to see in a Proposal to say YES! •What my client did to get conversion rates of 75%!!! •The Structure to follow in writing proposals that WIN and the language to use •What is the next skill to master in creating your Power Sales Tools |
| 12:30- 13:30 | The Bistro (Knowledge Village) | Appetite For ChangeIn this workshop, we want to share those experiences and convey to you a clear message: “Change = Opportunity”. We want to stimulate your appetite for change. You can win the chance to actively shape your future! |
| 12:45- 15:15 | The Think Tank (Knowledge Village) | Non Verbal Communication in Events: Masters In Moderation… UnpluggedWarning! In this session no technology will be used. During this 2,5 hour workshop you will:-experience what circles of interaction feel like
-experience what distances, sightlines and paths do for your meeting -understand how your moderator can use body language to direct speakers and audience -recognize what signs your audience show to base your interventions on. Special privileges for IBTM World attendees: -You can walk in while still eating your lunch -You can leave early when you have to catch your train or plane. Thanks to the specific design of the session you will get all the content, even if you stay just for a short while. The longer you stay, the more detailed knowledge you will get! -You will get an unusually big chunk of the official course if you attend the whole 2,5 hours -You will be able to participate without effort |
| 13:00- 14:00 | The Coliseum (Knowledge Village) | The Business of Bore Busting in Meetings and Events: Using Neuroscience and Technology for Breakthroughs in Live Communication – in partnership with ISESAfter an overview of recent scientific insights regarding human learning, communication and change, your views and assumptions will be tested to facilitate their learning to incorporate recent scientific insights. Taking these insights into account when designing and planning events will greatly enhance event ROI and attendee satisfaction. |
| 22:00- 2:00 | Opium Mar, Passeo Maritim de la Barceloneta, 34. 08003, Barcelona, Spain | Club Night – open to all – Get ready to dance the night away at Barcelona’s premier nightspot, Opium Mar |
| Exhibitor Events | ||
| 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… |
| 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! |
| 12:30- 13:30 | Exhibition Floor, Stand D90 | Come and taste the 2015 beaujolais nouveau with Paris Convention Bureau |
| 14:00- 14:15 | Exhibition Floor, Stand E15 | Active learning – a game changer in meetings with SwedenNiklas Tyllström, CEO of the Stockholm based GreenhatPeople.GreenhatPeople have for many years actively worked with implementing gamification into meetings. And it does change the outcome of meetings. |
| 16:00- 17:00 | Exhibition Floor, Stand G50 | VISITFLANDERS After Party with Belgium – VISITFLANDERS, Convention Bureau for Flanders & BrusselsEnd ibtm world in style and join VISITFLANDERS and partners for closing drinks. |
