CONFERENCE EVENT VISION

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Mary Kirillova is the CEO at Baltic Event Industry Club. The Pan-Baltic association of event professionals.

Baltic Event Industry Club (BEIC.pro) sets itself certain tasks, among which: promotion of the entire Baltic Sea region as a venue for various events, priority participation of members of the association at international B2B events as speakers and delegates, creating a unified database of contacts for event market professionals.

Members of the association are the largest event agencies of the Baltic Sea region and industry professionals providing services for event organizers. They are decision-makers of the industry in their countries.

In 2016 Mary launched the first Baltic-Nordic Event Forum organized for event agencies and corporates in the Baltic Sea Region. In two years Baltic For Events became unique face to face event for more than 400 event professionals and live communication leaders from the Baltic States, Germany, Poland, Russia, Finland and Scandinavia.

In 2018 Baltic-Nordic Event Awards took place for the first time. It put together over 130 projects all over the Baltic Sea Region.

In 2020 Baltic-Nordic Event Forum and Amber Event Awards take place in Stockholm

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Maarten Vanneste started his company ABBIT VIDEO in 1982. It grew from an AV company over production to a full-service meeting design company. After more than 30 years he is seen as a Meeting Industry leader and visionary with a focus on meeting design. His CMM's business-plan project became reality as the Meeting Support Institute (2006). The now called Meeting Design Institute is a member-based organization that educates and exposes meeting planners to meeting design and its toolbox. In 2007 Maarten wrote the ground-breaking book ‘Meeting Architecture, a manifesto’. This became an industry bestseller that led to an international movement and educational projects. With a focus on the objective-based meeting design, the Meeting Design Institute organises events like the FRESH Conference and education like a 5-day training in Meeting Architecture. The 2013 Meeting Architecture Process (MAP) workbook provides a standard Meeting Design methodology. Maarten is an influential innovator, author, trainer and speaker. For his relentless work and influence in the Meetings industry, he received the IMEX Academy Award in 2005 and the MPI RISE Award for Industry Leadership in 2011.

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Prof. Lars Uwe Bleher is a partner and one of the crea-tive heads of Atelier Markgraph – one of the world's leading studios for spatial experiences.

For more than 30 years, Markgraph has accompanied busi-nesses and institutions at the interface of digital and analog communication. The goal: creating immersive experience formats that range from exhibitions to trade fair appearances, from brand worlds to augmented reality applications. Bleher's interdisciplinary and highly integrated projects in culture, science and business have shaped the exhibition landscape and received numerous design awards and publications. After several years of teaching and applied research in the US, he is currently head of the New Media Department at the Department of Architecture at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Lars is both a domestic and an international expert juror and keynote speaker.

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How to enthuse employees at the biggest corporate festival in Czechia

About the talk: The biggest bank in Czechia – Česká spořitelna – has undergone major changes last year. Internal corporate event “Spořka” was meant to thanks employees for enduring this demanding and stressful period as well as celebrate the 25th anniversary of their subsidiary company (Stavební spořitelna) and the 200 years since the founding the Erste Group. We wanted to prove to our employees that they are appreciated and valued and that they are an essential component of the 200-yearlong story. We wanted to increase employees’ pride and the number of internal fans.

Bio: Miroslav Tuček Fifteen years in the internal communication departments of large corporations toughens a person and places him in a variety of roles. Sometimes, it is a strategic planner, other times a creator, and time to time even a hostess or a technician. Over the past 7 years, I have been lucky enough to be part of a team of enthusiastic people and to participate in the “fans hunt”. The aim of Spořka is not to have employees but to have devoted fans that will always support our company. I believe that our communication and events make this happen.

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Sandra’s professional life has always been connected to cars. She started at Sixt car hire and then moved to FCA, already as a Marketing specialist for light commercial vehicles. She moved to Hungary within the company, gaining further experience with product and pricing. Over the last 3 years, Sandra has been working as a Head of Marketing and Product at Mercedes-Benz Cars in Czechia. Her mission within this work experience is to change the perception of the brand and attract a younger audience.

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Jan Kubinec (Chairman ČEA)

After his studies at the University of Economics, Jan commenced working at ACNielsen, where he took care of international customers. In the ’90s, he was one of the pioneers of Category Management in Central and Eastern Europe. Subsequently, he worked for 10 years in various positions in marketing and sales of Plzeňský Prazdroj and is responsible for several advertising campaigns and events.

Since 2010, Jan has been in charge of developing the rental division of AV MEDIA, one of the largest Central European companies providing audio-visual event services. After the company transformation that occurred last year, he has been the Executive Director of AV MEDIA EVENTS, a.s.

For the last few years, he has been actively engaging in cultivating the Czech event market. These activities include co-founding the Czech Event Association, which he is currently chairman of.

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Lukáš Eršil led the “Vlajka pro Tibet” (“Flag for Tibet”) and “Do práce na kole” (“To work by bike”) campaigns. Currently, Lukáš works as the main consultant of the Prague City Hall for the “Čistou stopou Prahou” (“The clean way through Prague”) campaign. Since 2014, he has been the managing director of Envipor, s.r.o., a company providing environmental consulting and green practices implementation. He is also a co-founder of Biokoridor.cz initiative – Advertising in nature for 100 years.

Sustainable entertainment – events without waste Large events often go hand in hand with equally large consumption of energy, material and even human labour. As a result, an enormous amount of waste is generated and with it a negative impact on the environment. Let’s talk about how to decrease these negative impacts and how to compensate for it through local environmental programs. Without unnecessary transportation and wastage, with sustainable and healthy catering and good relationships…

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Jakub Loos works for Jan Becher Pernod Ricard as a manager of Becherovka for the Czech Republic. He has gained experience in experiential marketing at The Coca-Cola Company, where he worked for in several positions, such as a brand manager or event coordinator, for almost 10 years.