Education Programme
15:00 – 17:00
Optional Excursions:
– The old town and its treasures
– Geneva, cradle of prestige watchmaking
18:30 – 19:30
IceBreaker
Hotel Royal Manotel
08:00 – 08:45
Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome to Geneva & Introduction
Alain Pittet
Bertrand Joehr
09:15 – 10:35
SESSION 1: GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER &
THE POWER OF LISTENING
Mathias Posch
Sissi Lygnou
Nicky McGrane
10:35 – 11:00
Networking break and refreshments
11:00 – 11:45
SESSION 2: GLOBAL TRENDS Meetings in a new world
New meeting formats & programme design
What are associations doing differently?
Mathias Posch
11:45 – 13:00
SESSION 3: COLLABORATIVE BIDDING
How can we apply Collaboration & Team Success in bidding
Panel Discussion: What do associations expect from the destination and the PCO?
Nicky McGrane
Alain Pittet
Ronald Lavater
Edmund Biason
13:00 – 14:00
Networking & Lunch
14:00 – 16:35
SESSION 4: PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ON BIDDING
Sissi Lygnou
16:35 – 16:45
Networking break and refreshments
16:45 – 17:15
Key learnings of the day
Mathias Posch
19:00
Swiss Dinner
Edelweiss
09:00 – 10:15
SESSION 5: CLIENT & PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
People buy People – new styles of people management in
a hybrid world
Nicky McGrane
10:15 – 11:05
SESSION 6: RISKY BUSINESS
Budgeting & Risk Management in uncertain times
Sissi Lygnou
11:05 – 11:30
Networking break and refreshments
11:30 – 13:00
SESSION 7: SUSTAINABILITY
Do well by doing good
Sharing of IAPCO PCO case studies
Mathias Posch
Sissi Lignou
Nicky McGrane
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch and networking
14:00 – 15:45
SESSION 8: PROJECT & TIME MANAGEMENT
Working hard and work smart can be two different things
Mathias Posch
Sissi Lignou
Nicky McGrane
15:45 – 16:00
Networking break and refreshments
16:00 – 16:45
CICG Presentation with Refreshments
19:00
Dinner
Villa Sarasin
09:00 – 09:45
SESSION 9: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & LEADERSHIP
Keynote speaker
09:45 – 11:00
SESSION 10: MENTAL HEALTH
Put on your own oxygen mask first
Mathias Posch
Nicky McGrane
Sissi Lignou
11:00 – 11:30
Networking break and refreshments
11:30 – 12:30
SESSION 11: MULTIPLIERS
How to build great teams
Nicky McGrane
Mathias Posch
12:30 – 13:00
PERSONALISED LEARNING
Sissi Lignou
13:00 – 14:00
Networking & Lunch
15:00 – 17:00
Optional Excursions:
– The old town and its treasures with chocolates degustation
– International Geneva
