Forum Europe’s Event Management Team reflect on a busy start to 2021

Following a year of change and adaptation, the Forum Europe Event Management Team has continued to successfully deliver client events throughout the first half of 2021. From interactive invitation-only roundtables, through to full-day conferences and regional event series, we have been proudly supporting our clients with bespoke event solutions tailored to their specific needs.

Since January 2021, the event management team has completed over 50 virtual events, attended by more than 30,000 participants. These events have featured European Commissioners, Ministers, and CEOs, amongst others.

We have been delighted to work with both existing and new clients, including:

• DIGITALEUROPE on the delivery of their flagship annual conference ‘Masters of Digital’, as well as subsequent projects including the inaugural ‘Summer Summit’, the launch of the ‘EU-US Tech Allies’ event series, and an event on ‘Security in the Digital Age’. Our collaboration with DIGITALEUROPE continues not only with the planning for Masters of Digital 2022, but also on the delivery of some additional events in the Autumn focusing on the Renovation Wave, Health Data Spaces, the EU Green Deal and Women4IT, to name a few.  
• Qualcomm on the continuation of the high-level, invitation-only ‘Tech Policy Talks’ series, future sessions of which are planned for the Autumn with the next edition turning to the Africa region.
• Microsoft on the delivery of their ‘Data Science and Law Forum 3.0’ over the course of April, including regional chapters and a Brussels plenary week, as well as supporting with the second edition of their ‘Data Sharing in Europe’ event, and events on ‘Opportunities and challenges for countering disinformation in the EU’, ‘Critical Infrastructure & Resilience Regulation’, and ‘Europe’s Digital Transformation’.
• Brunswick on the launch of their ‘Competition Series: Is Antitrust Now Political?’
• HPE on the delivery of both their ‘Healthcare Revolution’ and ‘High Performance Computing’ conferences (with future events planned for the Autumn on ‘Everything as a Service & the Circular Economy’ and Public Sector).
• Alibaba Group on the continuation of the online digital policy series, with a session on ‘SMEs and the Recovery and Resilience Facility’, as well as an event with Ant Group on ‘Boosting Economic Growth through Digital Payments’.
• Workday on the ‘Governance in AI’ event.
• EPFSF on their ‘Virtual Winter Conference: “Shaping the Future of Europe”’.
• RSPCA on their ‘Focus on Fish’ conference.
• FETSA on their ‘Annual Conference’, the next edition of which is planned for June 2022.
• Suez on the ‘Environmental Innovation – A green solution for zero pollution’ event. 
• The EU-Funded Action on Black Carbon in the Arctic on the delivery of their project event ‘A Call for Bold Regional and Global Actions to Reduce Black Carbon Emissions Impacting the Arctic’.
• MEP Eva Maydell, EPP Group, on a ‘Roundtable on Cybersecurity’.
• Barclays, Generali and Kreab on the second virtual edition of the ‘Annual European Financial Services Conference’, which will return as a hybrid event in early 2022 for its 20th Anniversary edition.  
• Accenture, the European Innovative Media Publishers and Kreab on the delivery of the ‘News Media Landscape – the Evolution of Advertising’ roundtable discussion.
• BSA | The Software Alliance on the delivery of their high-level transatlantic event on ‘Confronting Bias: A Path Toward Transatlantic Cooperation on AI Policy’.

We are always delighted to receive positive feedback from our clients - Lev Sugarman, Workday said:  

“I just wanted to say the event was really great – and such a professional production! Especially compared to some of our other virtual conference experiences thus far, Forum Europe seems ahead of the curve.”

This has been an incredibly busy and successful year so far, but it is not over yet as we prepare for an equally busy Autumn. As the policy community looks forward to connecting safely in-person again, we are looking to deliver not only virtual events during the second half of this year, but also to extend our hybrid event portfolio. Check out our hybrid event solutions brochure to find out more. 

Some of the events we have coming up – to name just a few not already noted above – include:

• The ‘Bayer Life Talks’ series, kickstarting with a virtual session on gene editing and the Bio Revolution on 9 September.
• The ‘LPI Congress 2021’, which will be delivered in a hybrid format with an in-person audience in Vienna on 29 October.
• The EIT Food ‘Future of Food Conference 2021’, which will take place both in Brussels and online on 30 November & 1 December. 

Thank you to all our clients – both old and new - for choosing to work with Forum Europe, and we are looking forward to what the rest of 2021 has in store. For more details on what we have coming up in the second half of the year, click here.