CURRENT EVENTS
JULY 2008
EMELI 2008
18 - 19 July, 2008
ABC Treehouse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
IABC-Europe Middle East Announces Leadership Institute for Amsterdam
The IABC Europe Middle East region is bringing its annual Leadership Institute (EME-LI) to Amsterdam. The two-day session is focusing on the emerging European market for strategic business communication and on developing individual and group skills. The event will take place on Friday July 18 and Saturday July 19 with an entry fee of only EUR 85.
"Amsterdam and the Benelux are at the heart of an increasingly major global communication hub," says Mike Klein, IABC-EME Leadership Development Director. "EMELI 2008 will be a hands-on, scenario driven event, delivering personal, as well as regional-level IABC leadership skills. Intense and focused, it offers participants enhanced, exclusive access to the world's leading international communicator's network."
Confirmed speakers include Tia Viering, Communications Director of the New Seven Wonders Foundation, which successfully organised an online election with millions of participants, and Katharina Auer, Head of Global Internal and Management Communications for Royal Dutch Shell. A number of workshops will be held, led by international and regional IABC leaders.
For more information, visit http://emeli2008.eventbrite.com.
FEBRUARY 2008
EuroComm 2008 Conference
4-5 February, 2008
La Salle Campus, Barcelona, Spain
IABC Europe/Middle East is organising its seventh EuroComm Conference in cooperation with La Salle University. The conference brings together communicators from across the region to learn and share best practices, examine case studies and discuss the latest developments in communication planning, practice and analysis.
Join us in Barcelona for a day and a half of fun and fresh ideas!
To view the program and register, please go to http://www.salle.url.edu/EuroComm.
IABC Netherlands
WHAT WILL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION BE LIKE IN THE YEAR 2020?
IABC Netherlands: Connecting International Communicators
For many years, the Netherlands has been a hub of international communication. From the time of the Dutch East India Company, it has played a key role in developing, framing and delivering messages that have had a commercial impact with a global reach.
A lot has changed since then and is still changing rapidly, particularly in the field of communication. New media are moving ownership of information from the few to the many. If knowledge is power and if access to knowledge is becoming easier, then what does that mean for communicators and the organisations they work for?
Now, communicators in the Netherlands have their own organisation: the IABC Netherlands. This is a new Dutch chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, which is the world’s largest multidisciplinary association of international communication professionals.
The new IABC Netherlands is hosting a launch event on 20th November 2007, Herenzaal, University of Amsterdam. The program starts at 17:00.
Speakers: Michael van Praag, noted entrepreneur and former Ajax Chairman, and David Ferrabee, Managing Director, Change and Internal Communication, Hill & Knowlton.
The event will be facilitated by Astrid Kersseboom, NOS News Presenter.
The venue has a restriction of 75 places and attendance comes with 3 months free IABC trial membership.
You are invited by the board members of IABC Netherlands:
- Robert Briggs
- Michael Nord
- Agnita Bok
- Ingrid de Caluwé
- Lindsay Bogaard
- Jos Frijters
- Mike Klein
For more information, please visit newsfromIABCnl.blogspot.com and www.iabc.com.
IABC Belgium
Upcoming workshops and special events:
- CEO Roundtable: Featuring Guy Standaert, European Metal Packaging Association – March 29
For more information and to register, go to the IABC Belgium site: www.iabc.be/events.php.
IABC France
Upcoming workshops and special events:
- IABC Networking Event - in April, to be confirmed
- NEW IABC MEMBER – Café Croissants Breakfast Meeting. Meet members of the IABC Board in France and discover the wealth of IABC member benefits. Welcome!
Venue TBC
March 27: Tuesday morning, 08:30 - 10:30
- Communication Freelancers - Meet and Mingle: A must-attend networking exchange for all those freelance communications, public relations and marketing specialists in France or for those planning to start their own business.
Location: Le Général Hôtel (5/7 Rue Rampon 75011 Paris. Metro/bus: République / Oberkampf)
April 10: Tuesday evening, 19:30 - 21:30
- Workshop: "Creativity & Communications" led by Nick Hicks, Principal, Commutateur http://www.commutateuronline.com/nick_hicks.php
Location: MCI (24 Rue Chauchat, 75009 Paris. Metro Richelieu Drouot or Pelletier).
April 19: Thursday evening, 19:30 - 22:30
- The Value of Effective Writing: Sarah Clark, Consultant and Trainer, Clear Thinking - Clear Communication - May 24
For more information and to register, contact Summer Jauneaud.
IABC UK
Upcoming workshops and special events:
For more information and to register, go to the IABC UK website: uk.iabc.com/pages/events.html.
