#163 Where Business Meets Innovation: Unleash the Potential of JEC Forums
29.04.2025 10 min Staffel 5 Episode 121
Zusammenfassung & Show Notes
Where Business Meets Innovation: Unleash the Potential of JEC Forums
🌟 Exciting News from JEC World 2025! 🌟
Dear community, Composites Lounge members, and JEC community,
We had the pleasure of speaking with Anne-Carole Barbarin, Events Director of the JEC Group, about the upcoming JEC Forums for 2025. These forums are pivotal milestones leading up to the grand JEC World 2026.
Here’s a sneak peek into what’s coming and discussed in the video:
1. JEC Forum Italy (Cernobbio, Italy) - June 11-12, 2025 📍 Location: Nestled by the beautiful Lake Como, Cernobbio offers stunning views and easy accessibility from Milan and Zurich. 🔬 Focus: Italy’s strong composites sector, with top-notch research institutions and industry leaders, makes it a hub for innovation and collaboration. 🤝 Highlights: Over 1,000 business meetings, targeted conferences in partnership with Assocompositi, and exciting innovation sessions
2. JEC Forum Central Europe (Krakow, Poland) - September 17-18, 2025 📍 Location: Krakow, a historic city with excellent connectivity across Central Europe. 🔬 Focus: Poland’s growing composites market and robust academic institutions. 🤝 Highlights: Partnering with Targi w Krakowie and the Polish Cluster of Composite Technologies / Polski Klaster Technologii Kompozytowych, alternating with the KOMPOZYT-EXPO®
3. JEC Forum DACH (Dresden, Germany) - October 11-22, 2025 📍 Location: Dresden, a key transportation hub in the DACH region. 🔬 Focus: Renowned for its industrial strength and advanced technology. 🤝 Highlights: Collaboration with AVK, featuring business matchmaking, conferences, and innovation awards
4. JEC Forum South East Asia (Taipei, Taiwan) - May 5-6, 2026 📍 Location: Taipei, a vibrant city with excellent international connectivity. 🔬 Focus: Taiwan’s leadership in technology and composites research. 🤝 Highlights: Building on the success of the 2024 Bangkok forum, with a focus on the Southeast Asian market.
These forums are not just about networking; they are about fostering innovation, generating leads, and driving the composites industry forward.
Don’t miss out on these opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
Watch the full interview with Anne-Carole Barbarin to get all the details and insights
YouTube Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFToIJIvGh8&feature=youtu.be
🌟 Exciting News from JEC World 2025! 🌟
Dear community, Composites Lounge members, and JEC community,
We had the pleasure of speaking with Anne-Carole Barbarin, Events Director of the JEC Group, about the upcoming JEC Forums for 2025. These forums are pivotal milestones leading up to the grand JEC World 2026.
Here’s a sneak peek into what’s coming and discussed in the video:
1. JEC Forum Italy (Cernobbio, Italy) - June 11-12, 2025 📍 Location: Nestled by the beautiful Lake Como, Cernobbio offers stunning views and easy accessibility from Milan and Zurich. 🔬 Focus: Italy’s strong composites sector, with top-notch research institutions and industry leaders, makes it a hub for innovation and collaboration. 🤝 Highlights: Over 1,000 business meetings, targeted conferences in partnership with Assocompositi, and exciting innovation sessions
2. JEC Forum Central Europe (Krakow, Poland) - September 17-18, 2025 📍 Location: Krakow, a historic city with excellent connectivity across Central Europe. 🔬 Focus: Poland’s growing composites market and robust academic institutions. 🤝 Highlights: Partnering with Targi w Krakowie and the Polish Cluster of Composite Technologies / Polski Klaster Technologii Kompozytowych, alternating with the KOMPOZYT-EXPO®
3. JEC Forum DACH (Dresden, Germany) - October 11-22, 2025 📍 Location: Dresden, a key transportation hub in the DACH region. 🔬 Focus: Renowned for its industrial strength and advanced technology. 🤝 Highlights: Collaboration with AVK, featuring business matchmaking, conferences, and innovation awards
4. JEC Forum South East Asia (Taipei, Taiwan) - May 5-6, 2026 📍 Location: Taipei, a vibrant city with excellent international connectivity. 🔬 Focus: Taiwan’s leadership in technology and composites research. 🤝 Highlights: Building on the success of the 2024 Bangkok forum, with a focus on the Southeast Asian market.
These forums are not just about networking; they are about fostering innovation, generating leads, and driving the composites industry forward.
Don’t miss out on these opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
Watch the full interview with Anne-Carole Barbarin to get all the details and insights
YouTube Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFToIJIvGh8&feature=youtu.be
Transkript
So wonderful good morning, dear LinkedIn
community, Composites Lounge
members, JEC community, also.
We are at JEC World Day 3
and I'm together now with the regional
Director Anne-Carole Barbarin.
And we are going to talk
about the JEC Forums 2025.
Why is JEC Forum so important?
Now we got this grand, massive festival
of JEC World,
and the next JEC World will be in 2026,
in March again.
But in between we have some milestones
and we want to talk about them.
Thank you Anne-Carole
for being part of my show.
-Thank you Ilkay. Good morning everyone.
So this video will be in two parts.
The first part will be speaking
with Anne-Carole about JEC Forum Italy,
JEC Forum Central Europe
and JEC Forum DACH,
and maybe another JEC Forum
that is budgeted
and planned for next year 2026.
But for that, stay to the end,
to get the latest information on that one.
So Anne-Carole,
let's start with JEC Forum Italy
because that is already
on 11-12 June 2025.
So it's not so much time.
-To finish
to prepare it.
So we have this huge event, JEC World.
And alongside with this huge event
JEC World, the JEC
(Group) mission
is to support the composite industry
also in the regional markets
and local markets.
And that's why we have launched the Forums
in 2021, in the DACH region
and expanded the forums and the format,
very small format,
but very productive in Italy.
So the next edition of the JEC Forum Italy
will be held next June 11th
and 12th in Cernobbio, near the Lake Como
(Italy), and then
before the next edition of JEC Forum
we are launching a new event, a new forum
this year in the city centre
of Krakow, dedicated
to the Central European market.
Yes, we are very proud to tell
that we are partnering with Targi Expo
(Targi w Krakowie)
for this launching of Forum
in Central Europe
and why we are partnering with Targi?
It's because Targi has been organising
the composite expo
(KOMPOZYT-EXPO®)
in Poland since a long time,
and then the JEC Forum Central Europe
will alternate
with one edition of Composite Expo.
So one year you will have
the JEC Forum Central Europe in Poland.
And one other year
you will have the Composite Expo.
-Fantastic opportunity
really to go into networking,
but also the networking
has one specific and central element
and that is the business meetings.
Yes, that is the conferences.
And you have the third pillar
that is innovation, right.
And I would like to walk with you
through all these three pillars
on all these three events.
So let's start with Italy.
The JEC Forum in Italy,
the business meetings.
The last one which we attended
was in Bologna.
And do you do it in a similar setup
like in Bologna?
Or are there some changes available?
Since then the big change
is that we have a new software
for scheduling the business meetings
before the event and during the event.
It is the same software
that we are using here in the JEC World.
It is also an app
and a lead retrieval tool.
So it enables us
between maybe 300 to 400 participants.
That is the target
for the next JEC Forum Italy
to schedule more
than 1,000 business meetings
during the two days
and also generate a lot of leads.
The second part of the forums
is the conferences
we are partnering
with the biggest associations
for the composite industry in every region
where we have launched a JEC Forum.
So in Italy
we are partnering with Assocompositi,
and they are developing
the conference session
really targeted for the Italian market.
And for Poland, we will partner
with the Polish cluster
of technology in Poland
(Polish Cluster
of Composite Technologies /
Polski Klaster Technologii Kompozytowych)
and of course for JEC Forum DACH
we are partnering
for a long time with the AVK.
And the third pillar is innovation.
Innovation is divided into two parts.
Mainly the startups Innovation session
in every forum
developed by JEC
and also Innovation award.
But I think that Elmar Witten (MD of AVK)
will develop this subject more over later.
So you see these forums,
they are not only the business matchmaking
and the business meetings,
which have been a fantastic number.
It's a huge performance
that is put to the ground.
And I'm saying that
because lead generation
is also in my genes,
and if you get 1,000 meetings
organised in two days,
that's really a cool number.
So I'm really looking forward
to JEC Forum in Italy
and we invite you, if you are from Italy
or if you have an interest into Italy,
please contact Anne-Carole Barbarin
and her team
to have your selling booth
or register as a buyer
and do the same for Central Europe
and for the DACH region, of course.
And finally, I would like
to ask Anne-Carole:
So the JEC Forums are developing
in these three major regional capitals.
Is there anything outside Europe
that you have been planning so far?
We would like to know
and inform our community.
Thank you for this good question.
Actually, we have launched JEC Forum
in Southeast Asia in 2024 that was held
in June 2024 in Bangkok.
And we are really,
really happy to announce
that the next edition
of the JEC Forum Southeast Asia
will be held next May 5th
and 6th May in Taipei, Taiwan.