Sustainability is more than just a trend. It is basic need all of us if we want our children and thir grandchildren to survive. Inclusivity is more than ‘stakeholder engagement’, and diversity is more than a HR policy.
We need to ensure the sustainability themes, topics, objectives and goals are considered, included and embedded into the operations, business and project plans rather than sustainability being considered as an add-on.
Join Maja’s session and find out if you are doing enough.
Who is Maja?
Maja is the owner and Ecology, Ethics and Efficiency Event Manager at Eventful, an event agency based in Croatia that focuses on creating sustainable events with great social impact. Entering the world of sustainability, she saw the real effects of organizing events and decided to take matters into her own hands – be a change.
MEET BUSTERS with Tanja Polegubic, Saltwater Nomads
What if you never had to go back to the office? Ever again. For millions, the ‘commute’ to work now criss-crosses the globe. Forests. Beaches. Ski slopes. Cafes and cowork spaces across hundreds of countries. Every point on the planet can now be on the remote workers’ path – so, is your destination welcoming this market?
Join us for a spotlight onto the world of digital nomadism. Learn how cities can go from being “good for a few days” to a longstay opportunity – especially for the M.I.C.E. industry. And three key ingredients every destination has, but may not know it.
Who is Tanja?
Australian-born Croatian Tanja Polegubic has extensive international travel and remote working experience. This inspired a business in Croatia which has since connected hundreds of remote working professionals in Croatia – from Google to Antarctic employees and digital nomads from New York to New Zealand.
CENTRE STAGE: UNPLUGGED DIALOGUE Fire Talk by Claus RAASTED, The College of Extraordinary Experiences
elevatING the boardroom meeting to new heights.
In this keynote talk, Claus Raasted will explore the fundamental problems with meetings and deliver clear methods for change, inspiring ideas and make you question many of the meetings you have been in over the years.
Who is this session aimed at?
Maybe you’re a member of a board of directors. Maybe you’re a C-level executive who deals with boards. Maybe you’re none of those things, but think that a talk about better boardroom meetings might also be able to help you with the meetings you’re in. No matter who you are, you’ve probably been faced with (some of) these challenges:
• Meetings take too much time without the results to match. • Meetings are exhausting and feel more trouble than they’re worth. • Meetings aren’t enough, but lead to pre-meetings, post-meetings, etc.
There is no one golden solution to that; no universal fix that just needs to be applied in eight easy steps. Instead, there are myriads of tools ranging from the absurdly simple to the overly complex. Techniques and procedures for how to get from the start of a meeting to the end of one.
We call this Human Meeting Technology. It’s not about voice chat systems or flatscreens, but about human interaction and human decision-making. Like other technology, human meeting technology needs to suit the task at hand. If you have a problem with interruptions during meetings, it doesn’t help to use techniques that foster creativity – that solves a different set of problems. That is why this session is NOT about virtual meetings, but physical ones. It will point you to real-world examples that can inspire. Because when all is said and done, that’s where innovation happens. Out there. In reality.
Who is Claus?
Director of The College of Extraordinary Experiences. Coach at McKinsey. Ruby Hunter. Hologram Hawker. Playfulness Preacher. Experience Design Pioneer. Keynote Speaker. Event Designer. Author of 35 books. 1000+ talks & workshops. Claus Raasted has been called “a cross between Thor, Mick Jagger and Lady Gaga”. He also has a past in reality TV, but these days, who hasn’t?
We live in a world where ordering a taxi, a dinner, a hotel room or a flight is only a few clicks away. But what about finding the right venue?
The world of ‘venue finding’ in the MICE industry (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions) has become one of shady deals and a maze of providers. There are countless online booking tools and venue platforms with which you as an event organiser are plagued by the long lists of standardised profiles. This makes venue finding an extremely time-consuming process that can easily cost you more than 10 hours. Venues on the other hand, always draw the short straw. They put an enormous amount of work into all these online booking tools and platforms where they pay the top price to get just a little attention.
At WICE, they truly believe that there is the right venue for every meeting and event. No matter how big or small. Their platform uses digital power to find it.
Mark Toonen, the Visual Designer behind WICE will share:
What he has learned as an outsider in the Meetings & Events industry
What are the key take-aways of building a next-gen venue-finding platform
How will this segment of the meetings industry look like in the near future
Who is Mark?
Mark Toonen is a Dutch design native who started with bricks and ink before discovering the power of the pixel. He is always driven by the new, the fresh and the better. Mark seeks to create boldness with a commitment to simplicity and a solid story that goes down to the core of the brand and beyond the screen.
Sustainable development is accepted in principle as the only development paradigm for the future, ensuring a good quality of life for present and future generations. If we are to survive as humanity, we need to start taking into account the limits of the planet and significantly reduce our impact on the environment. The organisation of events, especially those with a high communication potential, has a major role to play in (not) achieving a sustainable development model. Whatever your motives – expectations of sponsors, local communities, participants; legal requirements; social norms; your own social and environmental consciousness – you are invited to embark on the path of sustainable development and sustainable events.
By joining Gaja’s session, you will find out why small steps are no longer enough. She will answer the following questions:
Where and how to start?
How to deliver events in an environmentally sustainable way?
How to plan and take action?
How to communicate it?
And how to choose the actions that will really bring about the necessary changes?
Who is Gaja?
Gaja is the Managing Director at Umanotera, The Slovenian Foundation for Sustainable Development. What is Umanotera? A beacon of sustainable development practices. Initiators of needed change. Global awareness. Boldness. Freedom to decide and act. Cooperation. Effectiveness. Alternative thinking power. It’s raising awareness and developing new social values and structures.
MEET BUSTERS with Manuela Šola, Komunikacijski laboratorij
We use innovation in our everyday lives and businesses; it’s how we evolve and grow. To be an innovative leader in the ever-changing environment we live in today, we must try to concentrate on the big picture. Innovation is traditionally related to technology, but both leadership and innovation are important for the competitive advantage of the organization.
So, the question is:
how to create a leadership strategy that could drive innovation and how to implement it in your leadership strategy?
By joining Manela’s session you will learn:
The importance of innovation in leadership
How can you be an innovative leader? Which skills do you need to focus on? What are the skills of the future?
How can you adapt innovation strategy to your team?
How do you create an innovative atmosphere in your team and positively change your employees’ mindsets?
Why it’s important to insist on innovation, especially in challenging times like the ones we live in now?
Who is Manuela?
Manuela is the General Manager at Komunikacijski laboratorij, one of the leading communication agencies in the region today, which she founded in 2004 and expanded its operations to Serbia a few years later. Manuela is as an ambassador for female entrepreneurship and an active member of a number of business associations.
CENTRE STAGE: UNPLUGGED INNOVATION Fire Talk by Jordan Waid, Jordan Waid Ltd.
Designed for the attention economy, to give you more time: you will dive into The PRECOG REPORT – a set of ten stories curated and shared in each volume. It enables, identifies and unlocks patterns for new strategic thinking, innovation, trend tracking, scenario design, future forecasting and purposeful impact.
Accelerating the future
In a time of content and information overload, PRECOG does the dirty work and separates the signal from the noise. Pattern Recognition (PRECOG) is how we train our minds and keep pace with the speed of innovation and agency of change. Pattern Recognition and PRECOG enables a new platform of discovery, creativity and innovation as well as a new skillset to find and identify real solutions.
By joining Jordan’s session, you will learn how to:
connect your business with the current influences in our world
connect your business with client and human needs – creating opportunity
connect your business with the future trajectory of your vision
Who is Jordan?
Jordan Waid is a Strategic and Creative Business Consultant, Workshop Facilitator, Idea Architect, Storytelling Designer, as well as an Academy Award winning filmmaker. An advocate for design thinking his passions focus on: futurity, design, innovation, trends, narratives, education, gamification, pattern recognition, brand experience and social impact.
CENTRE STAGE: UNPLUGGED SUSTAINABILITY Fire Talk by Bo Krüger, Moving Minds
A fast transition to sustainable meetings and events is a challenge of previously unseen complexity and uncertainty. How to solve this tremendous challenge is a mystery – we have never done it before and right now, we have no idea how to do it. Solving mysteries requires us to replace the old toolbox with a completely new one. If we keep using traditional tools like analysis, forecasting and planning, there is no way we will succeed.
In this talk, you will learn which tools to use and why mysteries are almost impossible to solve.
Who is Bo?
Bo Krüger is on a misson to make meetings change the world. He helps meeting planners and facilitators apply the latest knowledge and research from psychology and social science into their meetings. He works as a speaker, facilitator, author and meeting designer. His knowledge is deep, but his approach is very practical and easy to understand.
CPAC Hungary will be the first occasion that this major American political franchise arrives on the Continent. The American Conservative Union has for some time been looking for ways to bring CPAC to Europe, and over recent years, the conviction grew that Hungary, as one of the engines of Conservative resistance to the woke revolution, was the natural place for it. The Center for Fundamental Rights has always stood on the ground of common sense and true Western values. A leading Hungarian Conservative legal and political research institute, the Center considers its mission to defend our shared core principles: our Judeo-Christian heritage, Western way of life, and the traditional Family.
We live in a pivotal age. The question CPAC Hungary will pose is if we can protect our Western civilization, our true Western values, and face down the onslaught of the Left. The guiding theme of the conference will be the triune principle of God, Nation and the Family. We firmly believe that this is what connects all conservatives around the world. The Right has come to the realization that our most basic values have come under sustained and coordinated attack from the global Left. High profile Conservative politicians will attend CPAC Hungary, including US senators and congressmen, as well as prominent thinkers and opinion leaders from all over the world. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, a true champion of the Right, will deliver the keynote address.
Key challenges
Due to the Ukrainian-Russian war situation, the event had to be postponed.
Creativity
It had to be reorganized to a smaller location in a short time, where the stage had to fit and a suitable number of participants.
Innovation
You got the brand name from the United States, but this year it was organized in Europe for the first time. The international event had to be combined with Hungary’s special features.
Execution
The event was a great success all over the world.
Measurable results
Each year, CPAC brings together and energizes over 18,000 people – from college-aged to retired – who represent leading conservative organizations, educational institutions, elected officials, thought leaders, media personalities, influencers and grassroots activists who fight for conservatism in America and abroad.
Communication
It was streamed all over the world, appeared in several foreign newspapers.
Date: 5-12 September 2021 Location: Multilocation in Budapest, Hungary Organiser: Lounge Group – Visual Europe Group Client: International Eucharistic Congress
EVENT CATEGORY: CATEGORY B2C EVENT SUB-CATEGORY: Best Association Conference, Congress EVENT FORMAT: LIVE
Event description and key objectives
The worldwide series of celebrations of the Roman Catholic Church to deepen the knowledge and veneration of the Eucharist. Highlights of the liturgical events included the opening mass in Heroes’ Square in Budapest, the Saturday evening mass in Kossuth Square, followed by a candlelight procession and light show, as well as the closing mass with Pope Francis.
Key challenges
The event was held in 23 locations in Budapest, Hungary. Including HUNGEXPO (the largest convention and expo center in CEE region) and a gigantic stage at Heroes Square. Because of the special nature of the event we implemented several unique installations and solutions.
Innovation
Because of the special nature of the event we implemented several unique installations and solutions.”The hymn “”Sing of Victory”” was the anthem of the 34th International Eucharistic Congress, also held in Budapest in 1938. As the competition for the anthem of the 2020 event was unsuccessful, it was decided to have this earlier anthem rerecorded to meet contemporary requirements. Three young Hungarian singers sang the new version together with the choir and orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera House.
This hymn was also the musical base for the closing performance of the candlelight procession on the last day, performed on the large stage in Heroes’ Square after the final blessing.
Execution
More than 1200 children received the Sacrament of First Communion during the opening Mass of the International Eucharistic Congress.
The event was organised by 2,500 volunteers, including 600 scouts. The whole event was attended by 3100 choir members.
More than 100,000 people attended the Congress in-person and millions of people in 160 countries followed the events via broadcasts. The closing Mass was broadcast on television or computer screens in 160 countries.
