05 Mar — 07 Mar 2017,
Riga, Latvia

MCE Central & Eastern Europe 2017 - Riga

05 Mar - 07 Mar 2017, Riga, Latvia
Radisson BLU Hotel Latvija

The highly successful MICE business forum series, the MCE Central and Eastern Europe - MCE CEE – is organised by Europe Congress annually for the past 7 years. Building on Central and Eastern Europe’s MICE business potential, this unique forum brings together buyers from all over the world with high quality solution providers from the region. DMCs, PCOs, event management companies, convention bureaus, hotels, airlines from participating Central and Eastern European countries and selected, qualified and pre-screened buyers take part, based on dedicated invitation. Participating in this forum is the perfect opportunity to capitalize on the high value for money ratio the region is offering for the MICE industry. MCE Central and Eastern Europe is offering the advantage of not only bringing potential business partners together in one location as industry exhibitions do, but through its unique concept business counterparts meet face-to-face in pre-organised, match-made meetings. This MICE forum offers the perfect mix of pre-scheduled face-to-face meetings, educational sessions presented by industry opinion leaders, plenty of networking opportunities and social events. It will be your best investment - as many of our previous and returning MCE CEE participants say – into finding new business opportunities and potential partners.

Agenda

ARRIVAL DAY
ARRIVAL DAY
10:00 – 18:00	MCE Central & Eastern Europe - Registration
10:00 – 18:00	MCE Central & Eastern Europe - Registration

13:00 – 17:30	Optional site inspection & sightseeing tours
13:00 – 17:30	Optional site inspection & sightseeing tours

17:30 – 19:00	Welcome reception and opening speeches - Radisson Blu Latvija
17:30 – 19:00	Welcome reception and opening speeches - Radisson Blu Latvija

19:00 – 22:30	Welcome networking dinner at the Blackheads House - Meet Riga
19:00 – 22:30	Welcome networking dinner at the Blackheads House - Meet Riga

FORUM DAY 1
FORUM DAY 1
08:00 – 08:30	Welcome coffee/tea
08:00 – 08:30	Welcome coffee/tea

08:30 – 09:30	Keynote – Insight into the CEE region as MICE destination
08:30 – 09:30	Keynote – Insight into the CEE region as MICE destination

09:30 – 11:00	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings
09:30 – 11:00	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings

11:00 – 11:30	Networking Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	Networking Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:30	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings
11:30 – 13:30	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings

13:30 – 14:45	Lunch - Esplanade at Radisson Blu Latvija
13:30 – 14:45	Lunch - Esplanade at Radisson Blu Latvija

14:45 – 15:30	Educational session
14:45 – 15:30	Educational session

15:30 – 17:00	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings
15:30 – 17:00	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings

18:30 – 23:00	Evening program: Networking Dinner & Party at the Historic Latvian Gas Tower - Investment & Development Agency Latvia
18:30 – 23:00	Evening program: Networking Dinner & Party at the Historic Latvian Gas Tower - Investment & Development Agency Latvia

FORUM DAY 2
FORUM DAY 2
08:30 – 08:45	Welcome coffee/tea
08:30 – 08:45	Welcome coffee/tea

08:45 – 09:30	Central & Eastern Europe MICE Suppliers Presentation & Tombola
08:45 – 09:30	Central & Eastern Europe MICE Suppliers Presentation & Tombola

09:30 – 11:15	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings
09:30 – 11:15	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings

11:15 – 11:45	Networking Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45	Networking Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:45	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings
11:45 – 13:45	Scheduled one-to-one business meetings

13:45 – 14:15	Forum closing session and farewells
13:45 – 14:15	Forum closing session and farewells

14:00 – 15:30	Lunch - Esplanade at Radisson Blu Latvija
14:00 – 15:30	Lunch - Esplanade at Radisson Blu Latvija

14:30 – 19:00	Optional site inspection & sightseeing tours
14:30 – 19:00	Optional site inspection & sightseeing tours

You will meet:

Up to 100 event planners/hosted buyers from:

Germany, Austria, Switzerland: 20%
United Kingdom & Ireland: 20%
France, Benelux & Scandinavia: 25%
Spain, Portugal & Italy: 10%
Russia & CIS: 5%
Middle East & Asia: 10%
North America: 10%

65% Agencies, 25% Corporate, 10% Associations
All buyers are personally interviewed, screened, selected, qualified and reference checked to have sincere numbers of outgoing MICE business for Central and Eastern Europe!
Your most likely next business partners in the pre-scheduled match-made meetings
Leading event planners and decision makers

Qualification

Europe Congress applies a strict and lengthy qualification process to guarantee a high quality of the event. Only senior positioned event planners with sufficient (upcoming) outbound MICE) business for Central & Eastern Europe are being invited. The process of the entire qualification of all event planners takes more than half a year. The Europe Congress recruitment team dedicates itself to this work intensive procedures to assure each participating hosted buyer to be worthwhile meeting for the participating destinations and suppliers. The hosted buyers’ qualification process consists of the following procedures: