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The biennial congress of the European Society of Endodontology was held between the 7-10th September 2022 at HUNGEXPO Budapest, for the first time in Hungary and more than 1600 participants attended on the event from 65 countries internationally. The theme of the event was ‘Knowledge into Skill’

The conference was held in the new Congress Centre with a plenary room set-up for 1500pax and 20 smaller breakout rooms, where all together 200 + presentations from 100+ speakers were displayed during the 2 and a half days. The expo and catering area occupied some 2000+ sqms and 48 sponsors and exhibitors participated the event. Hungexpo team has worked together with AIM Group Portugal, the official PCO of the congress.

Planet Budapest 2021 Sustainability Expo and Summit debuted as the largest ecoindustrial Exhibiton in Central Europe, participants came to the event from nearly 103 countries. The event was not only aimed at diplomatic decision-makers and professional actors, but also welcomed the public audience. Nearly 100 speakers took part in the 10 thematic section meetings of the plenary program of the Summit, while 65 speakers participated in the professional program of the Sustainability Expo. The 40 high-level delegations participating at the Summit held nearly 250 bilateral negotiations.

Guests from more than 30 countries arrived to learn about the latest digital technologies through Your Planet Public Programs and gain insight into the everyday life of the future along 11 Sustainable Development Goals of paramount importance in the region. As part of the Heroes of the Future Youth Experience Program, more than 150 school groups were able to walk through an interactive escape room mixed with live theater elements. Planet Budapest occupied 5 event halls and the congress centre of HUNGEXPO. https://planetbudapest.hu

For the second time, following the same event organized in 2015, Budapest hosted the 4 day long ITU conference, which was once again held at HUNGEXPO Budapest Congress and Exhibition Center. The event was set-up in three event halls: the exhibition took place on 13 thousand square meters in hall G and F, with 270 exhibitors from 40 countries participating. The forum was organized in Hall A in 7 conference rooms. Furthermore, a large area was separated for meeting spaces, offices and for the International Media Centre.

Some 4000 delegates from 125 countries converged on Budapest for the event, which was opened in the presence of Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister, Hungary under the broad theme of Innovating together; connectivity that matters.

The Forum convened an influential global audience spanning governments, key ICT industry players, regulators, international organizations, high-growth SMEs, consultants, academia, media and more – including Euronews, who moderated the Forum Summit.

With over 270 exhibitors, including more than 150 SMEs, and 20 sponsors and partners from over 40 countries, the exhibition showcased technologies from 5G, satellite, e-waste management, robotics, blockchain, Smart ABC (Smart AI, Banking and Cities), smart agriculture, smart homes, climate change mitigation, fintech and more.

National Pavilions highlighted talent, innovation, investment and partnership potential from countries around the world and include the host country’s Hungary National Pavilion, showcasing established tech companies, start-ups, universities and incubators.

The event wrapped up with Internet Generation Day, a carefully curated programme of interactive workshops, demos, competitions, guided tours, company presentations and more, especially designed for university students, young entrepreneurs and innovators from Hungary and the region.

The appointment of the event contractor company was selected through an international public tender process six months before the event by ITU. Hungexpo successfully participated in the tender and was awarded as the general event contractor of ITU Telecom World 2019.  The scope of the contract  included the construction, set-up and dismantle of turnkey stands, signage & branding elements, show management services, provision of exhibitor services for participants, IT & utilities services, cleaning and carpet laying.

During the one-week build-up period 29 turnkey stands (530sqm), 23 workstation (92sqm) and 3 x20sqm office suites were built by Hungexpo. In addition 6  (size of 50-360sqm), totalling 920sqm custom-made stands were constructed by the team.  The 180sqm  Innovation Space and a 150sqm Business Matchmaking Zone was also set-up in the exhibition area.

“It is a great honor and pride for us that HUNGEXPO has once again been chosen as the venue and general contractor for ITU Telecom World Conference after the successful 2015 event. The success of the forum and exhibition this year can be attributed to the fact, that the work among the three organization teams of the ITU, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Hungexpo had not simply been a traditional customer-service provider cooperation but more of a true, smooth-operating partnership” said Gábor Ganczer CEO of Hungexpo.

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs announced at the closing ceremony of the event that the government has decided to start negotiations to let Hungary host all ITU events between 2023 and 2026. Hou-lin Csao, general secretary of the International Telecommunication Association, said that the advanced development of infocommunication in Hungary provides a good basis for the next European ITU conference, in addition he thanked the organizers for the successful conference with more than 4000 participants from 125 countries. “By 2021 Hungexpo will be completely renewed with a state-of-the-art congress center and latest event infrastructure, thus we look forward to welcoming further ITU events in the coming years.” – Gábor Ganczer added.

From 13^th to 16^th June 2019 the ERA-EDTA (European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant Association) Congress was held in Budapest at HUNGEXPO Congress and Exhibition Centre. The main goal of the congress was to raise public and political awareness of the problem of chronic kidney disease in order to encourage decision-makers to take the requisite preventive measures as quickly as possible.

Every year, one of the most prestigious associations of nephrology worldwide rotates its European congress and seven years ago, HUNGEXPO Budapest together with the support of the Hungarian Society of Nephrology submitted its bid to host the 2019 congress. Back in 1986, the congress with 3,000 attendees was already quite an important event for the Hungarian capital. Since then, the number of delegates has tripled. During the four days, 9,129 participants attended the event, of those 6,766 were congress members and 2,298 exhibitors.

The HUNGEXPO project team had prepared for the congress for two years working together with the organising committee to accommodate the best event flow and easy access to the scientific sessions and the large exhibition area as well. The largest plenary room was set-up for 2,500 people and a further 7 (500-1000 people) section rooms were built. The total space needed for the event was 40,000 square meters. Hall A housed several areas: an 8,000m² exhibition space for 119 exhibitors on 3,450m² booth space, as well as a 1,800m² poster display area for 1,700 posters and an E-campus community area.

One of the accompanying events of the congress was the ‘Run for Kidneys’ charity run on June 14th. The proceeds of the Charity Run, the € 20pp reg. fees, were paid to the Hungarian Kidney Disease Foundation. The distance of 5 kilometers is in the area of ​​HUNGEXPO and the neighbouring ‘Kincsem Park’.

Some more figures:

• More than 10,000 lunch bags were released, additionally nearly 10,000 meals were by over 300 catering staff
• More than 12,000 pieces of furniture was used
• 680 sqm graphics printed
• 315 hostesses were employed
• 6,000 meters of UTP and 900 meters of fiber optic cable were used

George Reusz
President of the 56th ERA-EDTA Congress, Budapest

„Now, as the 56th annual congress of ERA-EDTA is over, I would like to thank the Hungexpo team for all the precious and kind assistance, provided during the planning and the execution of the congress.

The conference returned after 33 years to Budapest. Since then the congress has evolved to be the largest nephrological event in Europe, with more than 6700 professional participants and over 2000 visitors from the industry.

Based on the feed-backs from Hungary and from the international participants, this year’s congress was a success both from the scientific and the social point of view. There was ample space for the plenary lectures and the symposia, and we could host more than 2000 posters and the industry exhibition without any problem as well. Thus, thank you again for your kind support and professionalism!”

Paolo Zavalloni
Congress & Industry Relations Manager, ERA-EDTA Group

“Despite the unusual venue, the Hungexpo team did its best in an efficient, helpful and well-organized manner. If during the event we had questions/problems they did their best to reply/resolve. The team also helped us to get a good coverage in the local press.”

HUNGEXPO has recently hosted several medical congresses and exhibitions: last year, the ESC (European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health) congress was held with 1,500 participants, and one of the largest US pharmaceutical companies held a professional seminar for 2000 European cardiologists at HUNGEXPO. The Dental World Dentist’s Professional Exhibition and Conference has been held here for the 5th time. 7-9 October this year HUNGAROMED, ​​ Health and Medical Technology Exhibition and Conference, launched in 2018 will take place.

The International Table Tennis Federation granted Hungary to host and organise the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest. The site selection process started in 2017. The Hungarian Table Tennis Association was in charge of the suitable venue search.

The championship’s space requirements were to accommodate 36 practicing tables, 24 tables for the qualifications and 8 tables for the finals along with 2.000pax+4.800pax grandstand and  the necessary spaces for the 400+ media and the TV broadcast. There were 1.500 accredited competitors and related staff, who required VIP catering services during the event and an expected 25.000 audience during the 8 days championships

HUNGEXPO’s Hall A on 20.000sqm served  for the runner up competitions and the practicing areas while Hall G was the main competition area where 4 tables for the finals were set-up with a viewer’s arena of 4.800 capacity including the broadcasting station for 400 and VIP section for 200 as well. The VIP rooms were  also set-up in this hall on 500sqm. In Hall F the media centre for 400 and some practicing areas were set up. Hall D served as the contestant food service area, while in the rest of the hall the fan zone was setup where viewers could try their table tennis skills as well as buy various sports equipment, sports clothing and memorabilia.

In the competition areas special sports flooring  and lighting requirements were prescribed by ITTF directives. To facilitate the live TV broadcast and the special 2.000 lux lights 10km electric cables and 1450 lamps were installed in the halls. The halls needed to get total blackout too.

Careful planning was a crucial part of the successful organisation as during the one week set up the electricity, AV, flooring, grandstand, media and broadcast places were to be built up in a layered manner by several different in-house crews and outsourced suppliers coordinated by HUNGEXPO’s project management team.

Security and badge control was another complex issue to manage; the event was divided into nine different access zones (Field of play, Competition Preparation, Tournament Control Desk, General Area, Media, Studios, Commentary Positions, Offices  and Meeting Rooms, VIP, VVIP, Accredited seats) and  strict security control was set up at each zone entrances to secure that only accredited persons were permitted into the zones.

A dedicated project staff on behalf of HUNGEXPO was supporting the event; daily 230-400 experts and assistances were working during the  20 days including Easter weekend.

ITTF CEO Steve Dainton on WTTC 2019:

 “The ITTF, together with the Hungarian Table Tennis Association, showed the world that great things can be achieved with a professional operation.”

“The 2019 World Championships is also a wonderful success, expected to be the most followed and reported table tennis event in history. The global media coverage will be huge simply due to the spread of success at the tournament.”

“There are too many persons to thank – Firstly thank you Budapest and the Hungary Table Tennis Association for an amazing Job. All ITTF officials who work tirelessly as volunteers, and everyone involved in the event whom I hope will take some rest after assisting to deliver an amazing, jam packed event.”

WTTC 2019 in figures:

• Enlio sports flooring 9.100sqm
• Tennis tables: 64pcs
• Media stations: 400
• Accredited media: 361
• Accredited competitors, staff: 1.500
• VIP and VVIP areas: 460sqm rooms, +VIP parking,
• Catering: 60.000 meals served in 11 days,
• Areas in use: 58.000sqm
• Hungexpo project staff: 230-406/day
• Addl. staff by organisers: 300-250/day
• Total viewers audience: 25.500
• Set-up days: 7
• Event days: 11
• Breakdown days: 2
• Lamps, lights: 1450pcs
• Led walls: 240sqm
• Broadcast cables, used: 6.000m

EuroSkills 2018 Budapest is the European Championship of Skills the biggest biennial vocational event in  Europe where young professionals under 25 compete in all the main industrial areas represented in six groups – Creative Arts and Fashion, Manufacturing and Engineering Technology, Transportation and Logistics, Information and Communication Technology, Social and Personal Services, and Construction and Building Technology. The participants arrive form the 28 member countries of WorldSkills Europe the owner of the competition in order to find out who is the most talented in the continent in such skills bricklayers thorough bakers to electrical installation technicians.

Objectives, planning and execution
Organizing this event was a huge opportunity to prove the importance of the quality of vocational education and the importance of skills in achieving economic growth. The huge attention that comes with organizing such an event gave the perfect opportunity to bring together leaders of government, education, business and industry and use this event as a catalyst for further transformation of the vocational training in Hungary and to attract considerably more students in the future.

37 workshops were to be set up and turned into professional and high level production areas for 3-4 days and then turned off again. All skills have special industry regulations, health and safety regulations and rules how professionals can work in correct conditions.

The competitions took place in five event halls in 180-1600sqm size competition areas totalling 40thousand square meters in Hall A, D, G and F.

The conferences took place in two meeting rooms 100pax and 280pax in Hall B. The exhibition totalled 6000 square meters with 45 exhibitors –sponsors, member countries and government bodies. Two thirds of the stands were custom design, the rest were shell scheme.

There was a 2600 square meter restaurant tent where 1300 guests were served at the same time. In addition 20 organisers’ offices, 3 VIP rooms and a 5600sqm storage hall was also provided.

The build up period started 9 days before the first competition day. Before the event was opened for the public two test days were carried out, so build up had to be completed in 7 days.

The competition at HUNGEXPO was open to the public, after a pre-registration, the visit was free of charge.  Daily visitor numbers reached 30-35k totalling 100k attendees in three days.

Transportation challenges, visitor flow – To be able to raise the number of visitors transportation was organized for the students from the countryside. That meant that the daily number of visitor buses were around 300 that reached the site every day. Special traffic restrictions and road closures had to be implemented to achieve as quick and effective flow of traffic as possible. Because of the high number of vehicles, the allocation of bus stops and the coordination of visistors arriving by train also required on-site management and coordination.

The goal of the communication and PR campaign was twofold: to raise awareness in Hungary about the EuroSkills competition and to engage the young generation towards vocational skills.
The primary target was elementary and secondary school audience, including students, their parents, and teachers who have an influence on the younger generation’s career choices.

The campaign included:
– national campaign (outdoor, television, print)
– online campaign
– social media
– PR in the above

Innovation and creativity
The owner of the competition WorldSkills Europe has an inner quality assurance system that is used during such type of events. The system has two parts: technical preparedness and participation experience.
The biggest challenge of these type of events is technical preparedness, because everything has to be on site and functioning by the time participants arrives, there are no second chances. Since the equipment was provided just in time and mostly by sponsors with such variety it is extremely difficult to carry this out.
All workshop is monitored daily in terms of preparedness and functionality, with 3 different statuses: red – big issue, yellow – small issue, green – no issue. Unprecedented in this events there were no other status given out but green, thanks to the committed partners and the excellent built up services.

Increased visitor experience: TRY A SKILL areas

The main industrial areas were represented in six groups – Creative Arts and Fashion, Manufacturing and Engineering Technology, Transportation and Logistics, Information and Communication Technology, Social and Personal Services, and Construction and Building Technology. In order to increase the visitor experience, and engage the youngsters special career orientation „islands” were created near the 37 competition areas where it was possible to try the basic activities that are typical in the skill. Overall 29 different Try a Skill workshops were built up and operated to represent 33 skills (from joinery to hairdressing) all across the whole competition area.

Effectiveness and results
The event overall was highly praised and successful according to both visitor and both participant feedback, truly setting up new standards to the next organizers.

The event summary in figures:
9 SET UP, 3 EVENT DAYS
28 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
37 SKILLS, 40,000SQM WORKSHOP AREAS
525 COMPETITORS
470 EXPERTS AND JURY
60 000 M2 AREA FOR THE COMPETITION, AND SUPPORTING EVENTS (CONFERENCE, EXHIBITION, CATERING)
29 TRY A SKILL AREAS
700 VOLUNTEERS (with a 95% turn up rate)
350 MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES (approx. 100 more than the previous event)
85 320 INDIVIDUAL VISITORS (approx. 11.000 more than previous event)
8 224 CEREMONY SPECTATORS (approx. 1.500 more than previous event)
250 PARTICIPANTS AT THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM (free of charge but registration required, full house which is unique)

Media interest
In total, 261 international an 98 Hungarian media representatives pre-registered to cover the EuroSkills Budapest 2018 competition. Including its opening and closing ceremonies and the side events, the competition received 542 media coverage.

UPDATE: Euroskills Budapest 2018, HUNGEXPO’s biggest event last year wins Silver Prize at the ‘Oscar gala of events’, Global Eventex Awards.

​The winners were announced on March 26, 2019, and in the Educational Event category, EuroSkills Budapest 2018 won an outstanding second place. The Global Eventex Awards is one of the largest international event competions that have been awarded the most outstanding events since 2009 in six different categories. In 2018, a total of 331 events were nominated in 42 subcategories, from over 80 countries worldwide.

„We are proud that Hungexpo was the host and organizing partner of EuroSkills Budapest”- said Gábor Ganczer, CEO. After four years of preliminary work, hundreds of people were working to bring this great prestige event to a success. This was the largest event of all our international hosted events, and it was a great success.” added Mr Ganczer.

Hungexpo won the opportunity to host a two-day semi-annual repetitive event of one of the biggest American pharmaceutical companies during the national holiday weekend of March on 30.000 sqm used event space across 3 halls.

2.100 people from 33 countries around the World were participated on the event compared the 1.800 which was the originally planned invited number at the beginning in 2017.

The event used a huge plenary session for all of the participants on 4.500 sqm in classroom style setup. During the 2 event days 4 sessions were held by professional speakers with unique AV equipment.

Furthermore 20 smaller workshop rooms have been built up by special soundproof temporary structure for 20-100 people where the different country meetings could be organized.

Despite stringent legal requirements for pharmaceutical companies in Hungary, Hungexpo found the possibility to present a high level quality seated buffet lunch and coffee breaks for 2.100 people between the sessions on more than 7.500 sqm.