Why participate?

ISPI EMEA Conferences are purposefully intimate in size with a format, content and presenters designed to attract executives and professionals from diverse backgrounds and experience that bring with them an enthusiasm for learning, sharing and growing together in the highly participative atmosphere of the conference.

• Open Assist Experience

  An opportunity for participants to be immersed in a unique teamwork experience that runs throughout the conference.  Through this process, all conference participants, presenters and sessions become “crowd-sourcing” resources for teams, as they work to respond to a live request for support from the senior executives of an actual organization, who will participate throughout the conference.

  See how Open Assist Experience works

• Keynote Speaker
  

  We always strive to invite professionals or senior executives, to serve as our keynote, who are able to contribute relevant, insightful ideas that are related to the conference theme and the general intent of our conferences, which is to provide uniquely valuable resources, within a participative atmosphere and an enriched environment that directly supports learning and sharing.  Since implementing a virtual format in 2020 and our decision to have all Briefing Sessions run as the only session in their time slot, we will, once again not have a traditional keynote in 2024, but a highly engaging special session that will focus on a topic related to this year’s conference theme (see Special Feature below).

  See the list of previous years Keynote Speakers

• Senior Executive Exchange

  Respected senior executives, from across the EMEA region, representing diverse organizations and industries, share their thoughts and insights with participants in an interactive panel sessions.  It is an opportunity for participants to hear directly from and interact with senior executives, during an engaging session, which is a perennial favourite at ISPI EMEA, expertly supported by internationally experienced facilitators. This year, we plan to schedule more than one  Senior Executive Panel and to introduce a new session type, a Strategic Deep Dive Discussion.  Stay tuned to learn more about that new featured session format.

  See the list of Senior Executive Panelists

• Special Feature (The Evolving Technology Landscape and Performance Perspectives)
  

  In 2021 we formed and supported a small “think tank,” which met and discussed the conference theme (Performance Improvement and Sustainability), including the types/definitions of sustainability and the relationship between performance improvement approaches and sustainability goals and/or requirements.   The work of the “think tank” was summarized and organized graphically to guide a 90-minute interactive session.  Stay tuned to learn about this year’s Strategic Deep Dive Discussion format!

• Briefing Sessions

  Carefully selected from proposals to present, submitted through our 2024 Call For Proposals (CFP) process.  During in-person conferences, these sessions are run concurrently, 3 per time slot. However, the online venue will permit us to record all sessions and have the recordings available to be accessed across all time zones at the convenience of participants.  Therefore, each Briefing Session will run alone in its time slot.  Once Briefing Sessions have been selected, the topic for each and a description of the session will be published along with a photo and brief bio for the presenter or presenters.