Programme
Thursday 24 November 20229.00
Registration opens
10.00 – 13.00
Optional tour to discover Rotterdam: start of the tour at the Postillion Convention Center (see “Extras” for more information)
11.00 – 12.00
UIA Associate Members Meeting – for UIA Associate Members only!
12.15 – 13.00
Lunch at the Markthal for participants of the morning tour
12.30 – 14.00
Lunch at the Postillion Convention Center
14.00 to 15.30
Round Table session 1:
Opening keynote by Cyril Ritchie, President of UIA, First Vice-President of CoNGO: "Politics, War, Peace, Associations….."
Followed by a panel of speakers and round table discussions
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 18.15
Round Table session 2:
3 case studies followed by two rounds of 3 parallel workshops in break-out rooms
- Glen Hodgson, Founder & CEO, Free Trade Europa: “Technology and Challenges for Think Tanks”
- Ryan Brubaker, Web and Database Developer, UIA: “Achieving goals, finding partners: UIA’s Global Civil Society Database”
- Yash Gurbani & Cyrus Walther, International Association of Physics Students (IAPS): “The future belongs to the young: What brings young members into international associations and unions?”
18.30 – 19.00
Optional tour of the Postillion Convention Center
19.00
Dinner at the Postillion Convention Center
Friday 25 November 2022
9.00 – 10.45
Round Table session 3:
3 case studies followed by parallel workshops in break-out rooms
- Ivo Franschitz, Founder & Owner, ENITED Business Events: “Becoming a SMART association”
- Håkan Johansson, Professor, School of Social Work, Lund University: “Civil Society Elites in Europe”
- Catherine Kalamidas, Rotterdam Partners: “The Dreamers & Doers: Rotterdam as a Living Lab for the Future of Events”
10.45 – 11.15
Coffee break
11.15 – 12.00
Second round of 3 parallel workshops
12.00 – 12.30
Round Table session 4:
Closing keynote by Lars Crama, Private Lead, Up!Rotterdam: "It takes a village to raise a startup"
12.30
Lunch
14.00 – 18.00
Optional tour to discover Rotterdam: start of the tour at the Postillion Convention Center (see “Extras” for more information)
Saturday 26 November 2022
9.00 – 13.30
Optional tour to discover “Rotterdam’s Resilient Future”: start of the tour at the Postillion Convention Center (see “Extras” for more information)