Meet Our Team: Nicole Hirschmann (Senior Accommodation Manager)
We would like to introduce Nicole, Senior Accommodation Manager at Congrex Switzerland.
Meet Our Team: Jeff Bateman (Account Manager)
We would like to introduce Jeff, Account Manager at Congrex Switzerland. What is your position at Congrex and what activities are you responsible for? My role at Congrex is varied. I am responsible for the successful implementation and running of meetings and events...
Meet Our Team: Martina Mutter (Head of Registration)
We would like to introduce Martina, who celebrated her twentieth anniversary with Congrex in January this year. What is your position at Congrex and what activities are you responsible for? Twenty years ago, when my two daughters were still quite small, I started with...
Happy Holiday Season 2020
Dear Friends, 2020 was a year of global challenges, which forced us into an unprecedented change of our most natural behaviour. It disrupted the business events and associations industry and opened the door to new ways of meeting, educating and learning. We are confident that however fierce our industry was hit, it will help us to bring conferences to the next level.
The True Value Of Digital Meetings For Participants
After organising the first digital congresses this year, we have received some feedback we would like to share. After each of our online conferences, we conducted a survey with the participants to gather their feedback. We were particularly interested in the...
Disruption In The Business Events Industry: Rising To The Challenges Of COVID-19
If there is one subject driving the conversation among meeting and event planners and organisers today, that has to be disruption. In a matter of weeks, the global landscape has changed enormously, and professionals in the meetings industry now face the pressing need...
CEO Message for International Women’s Day 2020
The exhibition and congress industry is female, its upper echelon is male. On the one hand, I am pleased to be the first female CEO of Congrex Switzerland, on the other hand, I also think that we should be beyond the gender discussion. I never thought that my gender...
Guidelines on Coronavirus – COVID-19
Dear Friends, As news about the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continues to develop, the impact on the meetings industry is becoming increasingly clear. Fairs, business events and meetings in several countries around the world have already been postponed or...
Our Core Values: CARE
We CARE – our clients, participants, employees and planet deserve our care and attention. Although Congrex has a “We care” philosophy for many years, our focus had been on our clients, participants and employees (and that will, of course, continue!). We have also...
The Future of Scientific Meetings
Knowledge Exchange, Post Graduate Learning, Efficient Networking – The Future of Scientific Meetings. Author: Christian Mutschlechner The format of scientific congresses has been the same for decades: They typically have plenary sessions, parallel sessions,...
Press Release: Christian Mutschlechner joins Congrex Switzerland’s Board of Directors
Congrex Switzerland extends its board of directors and welcomes Christian Mutschlechner, former director of the Vienna Convention Bureau, as their newest member of the governing board. “We are extremely happy to have found the ideal person to extend our governing...