#141 JEC FORUM DACH 2024 Update of JEC Group and AVK. Further Forums announced for 2025 and 2026
13.09.2024 10 min Staffel 5 Episode 98
Zusammenfassung & Show Notes
Anne-Carole Barbarin laid out their plans for the JEC Forums by 2026 during the recent JEC World 2024 and we are happy to accompany the expansion.
Hear from Anne-Carole how JEC has upgraded their matchmaking system for 2024 and following Forum events.
Let us also remind you that Ilkay Özkisaoglu will host a LinkedIn Live where we will talk about the JEC FORUM DACH format with Anne-Carole and Elmar Witten of AVK (Frankfurt, Germany).
Please join us live right here on LinkedIn on September 18 at 2pm (register link in the comments).
We'd love to hear your comments and questions all around composites, the Forum and anything else that crosses your mind in relation to CREATING SUSTAINABLE VALUE with Composites Lounge.
If you cannot attend this live Event online at this time, please feel free to press the register button of this event anyway, because you then will be given access and revisit the event anytime later plus you can network with all participants of this event, even if you aren't connected yet.
Looking forward to meeting you on our live on September 18 digitally here on LinkedIn AND in Stuttgart on 22, 23 and/or 24 October 2024 in person.
Hear from Anne-Carole how JEC has upgraded their matchmaking system for 2024 and following Forum events.
Let us also remind you that Ilkay Özkisaoglu will host a LinkedIn Live where we will talk about the JEC FORUM DACH format with Anne-Carole and Elmar Witten of AVK (Frankfurt, Germany).
Please join us live right here on LinkedIn on September 18 at 2pm (register link in the comments).
We'd love to hear your comments and questions all around composites, the Forum and anything else that crosses your mind in relation to CREATING SUSTAINABLE VALUE with Composites Lounge.
If you cannot attend this live Event online at this time, please feel free to press the register button of this event anyway, because you then will be given access and revisit the event anytime later plus you can network with all participants of this event, even if you aren't connected yet.
Looking forward to meeting you on our live on September 18 digitally here on LinkedIn AND in Stuttgart on 22, 23 and/or 24 October 2024 in person.
Transkript
So good afternoon, dear LinkedIn community
and Composites
Lounge members and composites experts.
JEC visitors and exhibitors here in Paris.
Now I have, of course,
a voice from the JEC Group itself.
This is Anne-Carole.
-Good morning.
The regional director
of the regional JEC shows.
And she just came out of the VIP room
with a presentation about JEC forum DACH,
which is now organized for Stuttgart (Germany).
And now you're coming out
of that room, Anne-Carole,
what is the latest news on that?
For this fourth edition
of the JEC Forum DACH,
which will be held on 22 and 23rd October
2024 in Stuttgart,
we are happy to welcome
all the participants
in the Maritime Hotel in the city centre
of Stuttgart,
because we saw that in Salzburg
(Austria), the last edition, it was
such a success for all the participants
to be all in one place event
in the city
centre, that for now we book every year
on Hotel Avenue, in a hotel
in the city centre
of each city for the next edition
of the JEC Forum DACH.
So Stuttgart in 2024, Dresden in 2025,
and even Cologne
in 2026 at the Maritime Hotel.
-So that's a wonderful information.
2026 is even already in the pipeline.
That is, of course, exciting news.
But let's come back
to what is going on this year, 2024.
Anne-Carole, you have
this fantastic matchmaking system,
which in some cases
doesn't really work in other places,
but in your case it works very nicely.
In Salzburg we had over 800 matchmaking
that were planned with a hit rate,
if I remember correctly, over 90%.
Yeah, that was well respected
the meetings.
How will it be this year?
Can the buyers and sellers
expect something similar?
What's your ambition?
Exactly, the core of our event
is the business meetings program.
And this year we improve the program
with integrated,
a new web platform
which will enable participants
to match-make the meeting
and schedule the meetings
prior to the event
between buyers and suppliers,
and also to plan and schedule meetings
during the event
with either a web platform
and an application for the event.
And we also have a very,
very smart business meetings manager
who is really, really doing a good work
in accompanying all the participants
in their process of scheduling meetings
and searching for profiles and good match.
So that means also that people
that are coming short notice
that have maybe
not the time to pre-schedule everything,
they get the chance
on site to schedule meetings.
Exactly. Which was not the case
previously.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Elmar Witten
is with me.
He's the, would we say
managing director of AVK?
Yeah that's right. I'm sometimes confused
with the presidents,
the chairman and managing directors.
We have to be clear.
He's the managing director.
-Yeah, I'm paid for the job.
And so I'm the managing director.
-You are the managing director.
You get money for it.
You have the great function
of this JEC Forum DACH
to organize the speakers
and the stage performance.
How do you start?
What is your next step on this?
-So we are very happy that we are partner
of the JEC Forum DACH since the beginning.
So this event started
three and a half years ago,
after Frankfurt
and then Augsburg and Salzburg.
We are now in Stuttgart.
We will, as Ilkay already said,
organize the conference program.
So we care for content.
We have important issues
that have to be announced at this event.
That will be, of course, sustainability,
which is a very important issue
for the industry at the moment
for the composites industry,
including recycling topics.
And then we have e-mobility and innovation
topics for different applications
like e-mobility. And we will inform
about latest market developments then.
That's our job. We are very happy
to have our 100 year anniversary
at AVK this year,
and we will have a party at the end
of the first conference day.
So this will be a common event
of JEC Forum DACH and 100 year anniversary
of the AVK this year.
So what I am really excited about
is also the AVK's innovation award-
that is some people say 30 years old,
Some people say 28?
Older. I'm with the AVK since 16 years.
Older than 16 years.
But older than 30 years.
But I don't know exactly.
The innovation award
goes to several categories.
So can you explain us what categories
do you plan this year?
If you have already decided upon?
-The categories are always the same.
We have one category
on innovative products.
We have a second category
on innovative processes
to produce products.
And we have a third one,
a category for institute
and research and development.
So these are the categories
and one topic in each of the categories.
Not new this year
but since years is sustainability.
What's your call to action to people
to win this prize?
What should they do now?
-You are all innovative
so just let us know.
So send your innovation ideas to us,
to the AVK and then you have a good chance
to win one
of the well-renowned
Innovation Award prizes.
Is it necessary to be a member
of AVK to apply?
No, it's totally independent.
We are awarding the best innovations
in the market.
-Okay, wonderful.
Which means this is very objective
and very much open.
Thank you, Elmar, so much.
We have another talk later on.
And now I take back Anne-Carole on stage.
Thank you.
So, Ladies and Gentlemen,
we have Anne-Carole one more time with me,
because one thing is clear.
We have talked about JEC Forum DACH,
because I'm inclined
towards the German market,
of course, the German Austria
and Switzerland.
And I'm covering this also on the show
with pavilions and exhibitors
and some experts here.
But of course, JEC World is expanding
in different regions
and I would like to talk with Anne-Carole
first of all,
next year is Italy JEC Forum Italy
at Lake Como. And but prior to that
there is also a Southeast Asia version.
Tell us about that one.
-Exactly. After having launched JEC Forum
DACH in 2021,
we launched with a very big success
JEC Forum Italy in 2023,
which will be held every two other years.
So the next edition of JEC Forum Italy
is planned to be held in next June
in 2025, Lake Como.
We are planning to launch a new forum
next year in 2025,
in September in Poland, which will be
named JEC Forum Central Europe.
We see the JEC family, the JEC community
is growing internationally
and it's a great thing. I applaud you guys
for all this international work,
because that keeps the community running,
composites running.
Just this morning I met Alan Banks
from Composites UK
and we were going
through the history of composites
and he said composites
is a fairly young industry
and I remembered well the first railways
are for 100 years ago
with steel and we are coming back.
But even JEC at 1960 was founded,
so it's already 60 years.
But compared to steel, of course, it's a
it's a younger industry
and now is the time also
after this pandemic and all the hassles
have been over to expand
and get a global community together.
Yes. Thank you so much Anne-Carole
for the update.
-Thank you for the opportunity
to communicate.
-You're welcome.
And I wish you, of course,
a nice further JEC World.
But as far as I can see it flows.
But we are not at the end.
We have still 1 day to go,
but it looks very promising.
Thank you. Thank you to everyone.