The Global Association Forum 2025 will be designed in an interactive and collaborative setting with internationally accredited educational content, out of the box sessions, and pre-scheduled, face-to-face meetings for an intense, purposeful experience.
The dress code for the conference will be: Business Casual.
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Please note that this programme is not final and may subject to changes.
All sessions will be held in person in CET, which is the local time of Spain.
About ICCA Global Association Forum; our Flagship event on Sustainability
The ICCA Global Association Forum is an annual event that brings together association meeting planners, senior association representatives, and meeting suppliers from across the world, providing valuable insights, practical tools, and resources to support the association meetings industry. The event is focused on sustainability, wellness, and regenerative event management.
The GAF incorporates tailored business networking opportunities, using a unique matchmaking technology platform to connect association meeting planners with meeting suppliers they are considering partnering with.
The Forum is designed to highlight innovative sustainability solutions, and engage participants in interactive workshops to build community, collaboration, partnership and sustainability leadership. During Forum sessions, we will map global issues to the realities of events management, and enable best practice sharing on effective solutions.
Participants will leave the event empowered with new ideas and tangible plans to further sustainability action in their organization, events, and destinations.
All ICCA sessions qualify for ICCASkills certification credits and can be used for recertification purposes or towards future ICCASkills certification.
Practical solutions to your organization’s sustainability challenges, shaped through real-time feedback from peers, experts, and association leaders
Fresh ideas from Spark Talks that showcase innovative approaches to climate action, circular economy, accessibility, equity, and social impact in business events
Hands-on skills to integrate sustainability into your event strategies — from embedding it in RFPs and supplier engagement, to applying EU sustainability directives and ICCA’s new Food Toolkit.
Design-thinking practice to explore specific sustainability topics in small groups, turning complex challenges into actionable event solutions.
Clarity on regenerative approaches, and how events are beginning to experiment with more future-forward and place-based action.
An action plan to activate specific sustainability programs or initiatives in your organization — supported by peer feedback, expert guidance, and practical tools.