SYMPOSIUMS & CONFERENCES

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SYMPOSIUMS & CONFERENCES

• Urban Soft Power - 400 participants, MICX, Mons, supported by Wallonia (2016)
• The Pragmatic City – over 2 days > 600 participants, supported by Wallonia and NWE INTERREG IVB, Liège convention centre (2014)
• Let’s reinvent Cities - 500 participants, supported by Wallonia, Liège convention centre (2012)
• Life in the city - 600 participants supported by Wallonia, Liège convention centre (2010)
• Sustainability in city centres - 500 participants supported by Wallonia, Liège convention centre (2008)
• How to develop successfully your Town Centre – European Symposium on Town Management supported by Interreg IIIC Tocema Europe, Namur theater (2007)
• City-centre, a new type of management ! 500 participants, supported by Wallonia, Liège convention centre (2005)
• Economic revitalization of urban centers, 400 participants, supported by the Uban policy of the Belgian Federal Government (2001)

CLIENTS

Thanks to our multi and pluridisciplinary team, as well as our cross-view of the political, economic and academic worlds, we intervene as speakers in French or English on all themes linked to city centres (governance, commerce, mobility, public space, …).

Press, animation and moderation of roundtables and participative assemblies:

• Press conferences, interviews (press, TV, radio) continuously over all matters related to city centres, place making, retail and emerging trends (Since 1997)
• Merchant meetings animation (Bastogne, Charleroi, Luxembourg,..)
• Participative assemblies & jurys:
  • Awareness raising on the theme of commercial development and its different impacts, Brussels, Belgium, 20th mai 2017
  • Jury of LVMH doctoral thesis, Paris Est University, France
  • Ecolo party workshop on commercial flows, Liège, Belgium
  • Great citizen debate on the shopping centre project on the Léopold square, Namur

Intervention as a keynote speaker :

• 3^rd French-Belgian Congress of franchisee – Lille, France
• Nancy annual retail convention, Nancy, France
• Public spaces: responsible sharing, challenges and local responses, Namur, Belgium
• Roundtable: City centres’ governance in Europe, 1^st European conference on city centres, Metz, France
• City-centre, a new type of management, annual meeting of Luxembourg city trade association UCVL/ Cityshopping, Luxembourg
• All-day debate – zoom in on Belgium, Procos – Paris, France
• The Walloon model of town centre management, Procos – Mons, Belgium
• Smart city and town centre management, Philips Lighting, Brussels, Belgium
• Residual value of city-centres properties, Athelean, Charleroi, Belgium
• Round table the future of city-centres, Paris, France
• Connected commerce, Epareca, Lille, France
• Town centre management, Charleroi Academy, Belgium
• Smart city and town centre management, Belfius, Brussels, Belgium
• Convention on economic and commercial revitalization of city-centres, Ministry of Economic and Financial Affairs, Paris, France
• Full access pedestrianization, UMons, Belgium
• Revitalising Neighbourhoods, Places Victoria, Melbourne, Australie
• Conference Eat your street, Québec, Canada + annual meeting of the Canadian town Centre network “Fondations Rues Principales” keynote and day workshops focusing on place making
• DG01 symposium : Public space day in Wallonia, Namur, Belgium
• Interreg day – intervention + Q&R on the missions as a lead partner of a European project, Tournai, Belgium
• National trade and crafts observatory – Centre-ville en mouvement, Paris, France
• Lille European metropolis’ conference: What kind of business in the future in our city centres ? Lille, France
• Place-Making conference + 3 days of public consultation - Build-a-Thon event by The Housing & Development Board (HDB) Singapore
• Launch of the 3 city centres observatories, Centre-Ville en Mouvement, Paris, France
• Series of presentations, interviews and interactive workshops on town centre management, place making and place management with
• Australian public and private stakeholders @ Scott Carver, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia
• Place Leaders Asia-Pacific Workshop 2015, Parramatta, Australia
• Place making and town centre management, Housing & Development Board, Singapore
• Atrium’s seminar: Places and sens of places, Bel.brussels, Brussels, Belgium
• Is it really necessary to finance artists ? MicroStart – Charleroi, Belgium