For the fourth edition of City Events, the programme committee would like to offer you the opportunity to submit your case studies to be featured in our conference programme. If you are a city, a sports federation, an event organiser, an event supplier, a sponsor, an agency or a sports business actor with a great story to tell, we would love to hear from you. 2013 theme: Sporting events in the near future, how to be prepared. The 2013 City Events programme will focus on concepts and cases drawn from recent successful event hosting. Speakers from host cities, international federations and private event owners will share their practical experience. Submitting your forward-looking idea on this year's topic for City Events is absolutely free. However, the…
City Evens will participate in the first continental Peace and Sport Forum, Peace and Sport Dubai Forum 2013. This event will provide a unique platform to exchange ideas, share experiences and inspire new ways to support peace development in the Arabic and Gulf region, and beyond. As a main Partner of City Events, Peace and Sport welcomes Séverine DESBOUYS, former cycling athlete and member of the City Events programme committee. She will represent City Events at this major international meeting. She would be more than pleased to meet with you there in order to discuss how City Events can help you to set up your sports event hosting project. The Peace and Sport Dubai Forum 2013 is the place to be, as it will offer…
Following a successful 2012 Edition, all City Events staff would like to introduce you to the fourth edition of City Events that will take place next November 13-14-15, in Lausanne (Switzerland). Our entire staff has been working hard since the beginning of the year to offer you a new and never-before-seen conference that will bring together International Federations, city officials and sporting event owners to discuss the future of sporting events. 2013 THEME: SPORTING EVENTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE How to be prepared The 2013 City Events programme focuses on concepts and cases drawn from recent successful event hosting. Speakers from host cities, international federations and private event owners will share their practical experience. This year once again, thanks to top level speakers and a…
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – On 14-16 November 2012, cities gathered with International Sport Federations and sport events stakeholders in Lausanne, the Olympic Capital. Over 235 participants and 20 journalists from 42 different nationalities gathered to discuss about ways to implement winning bids to host international sporting events. Under the theme Preparing to bid and bidding to win, the international conference City Events was a success in sharing experiences and ideas, through debates and networking opportunities, thanks to top level speakers and a high quality audience! Bidding: a project with many challenges From the first evening, the tone was set. Martin KALLEN (UEFA Operations Director) and Michael R. PAYNE (Former IOC Marketing Director and Special Adviser to F1's Chairman/CEO) shared their experience and vision: The bidding exercise…
In recent years, major sporting and cultural events such as the Olympic Games have emerged as significant elements of public policy, particularly in efforts to achieve urban regeneration. As well as opportunities arising from new venues, these events are viewed as a way of stimulating investment, gaining civic engagement and publicizing progress to assist the urban regeneration process more generally. However, the pursuit of regeneration involving events is a practice that is poorly understood, controversial and risky. Events and Urban Regeneration is the first book dedicated to the use of events in regeneration. It explores the relationship between events and regeneration by analyzing a range of cities and a range of sporting and cultural events projects. It considers various theoretical perspectives to provide insight into…
‘How to increase sport participation in major urban areas’ Urban life has common limitations such as safety and mobility, for example, which hinder participation in sports; moreover, as they strive to increase participation rates among its population, major cities face growing competition from the entertainment industry as well as from new technologies. Due to a growing trend of people migrating to major cities and as a consequence practising less sport, TSE Consulting conducted a study with various cities across the world to look into how they face urban challenges and what other major cities should do to increase participation rates in their municipalities. The study report will be available for free at City Events 2012.
London 2012 has "refreshed" Olympic Movement, Rogge says. See article Olympics fails to meet expectations for London businesses - report. See article OLYMPIC LEGACY: Securing long-term benefits from London 2012. See article Foreigners hold strong image of London ahead of Olympics – report. See article London 2012: Perspectives on Sport, Olympism and Society.See article
This year's City Events programme will concentrate on two aspects of a bid's life cycle: 'Preparing to bid: how to get it right, right from the beginning' will focus on what cities/countries (big or small) should consider while preparing to bid, well before the actual process is launched (how to get organised, how to mobilise support, how to get funding, who should run a bid, etc.) 'Bidding to win: how to build the best possible campaign' will focus on how bidding cities/countries (big or small) can significantly increase their chances of winning (what to do when, how to create a unique proposal, focusing on what really matters, etc.) Speakers from recent and current bids will share their experience and provide hints on what to do…
This year, City Events participants will meet some of the most influential and knowledgeable experts in the sport's bidding industry. Past bid winners (and losers) will tell us why they believe they won (or lost!); bid campaign specialists will share (some!) of their secrets; and International Federations (and private event owners) will tell us what it takes to win their events. A not-to-be-missed experience for all those who are thinking of bidding – or are currently bidding - for an international sports event. The impressive line-up of speakers will include (list is not exhaustive): Recent and future bidders and hosts: Jacques Lambert, Head of the successful French bid for the UEFA EURO 2016 Dirk Smits Van Oyen, former lead consultant for Poland & Ukraine bid…
