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What makes Belgrade Design Week and our creative conference so special and different is most of all the impressive participants list, which constantly grows and each year involves more and more global leaders in the creative industries
Founded in 2005, as a true rarity in the world of festivals - as a non-profit NGO, Belgrade Design Week is the first festival of creative industries and modern business in Serbia and the South East European region, covering an area home to more than 100 million people from Milan to Istanbul. For five years now, Belgrade Design Week has successfully forged intercultural and business connections between the global design scene, the regional creative industries and the city of Belgrade. With its concept BDW renews, within a contemporary context, the tradition of grand international festivals of culture such as Bitef, Fest and Bemus, recognizing the complete lack of the creative industries' presentation, and adding for the first time Belgrade and Serbia to the global design map.
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The conference satellite program
SMART LAB: specialized workshops, round tables and unique tailor-made b2b meetings that strengthen innovative business potential and produce concrete results!
designPREMIERS: Exhibitions, Cocktails, The Belgrade Design Grand Prix, Vernissages, Pecha Kucha Night and Screenings of movie premiers.
BEOGRAD2: Belgrade’s unparalleled mix of design and hedonism will be showcased amidst the unique scenery of Belgrade’s streets, windows, furniture shops, restaurants, cafés and endless nights…
desigNIGHTS: Belgrade Design Week’s evening program, a unique international club festival of “design-music”.
SMART2 conference is divided in following segments:
Smart stars
Our lecturers are changing and reshaping the world with their vision, talent and ideas, and you have the unique opportunity to learn from the best. Live! Every day from 10am to 4pm some of the worlds greatest design superstars will be presented in the Smart Stars program. This year, the conference ticket price is reduced to popular and non-profit 100€, due to the expected support of the City of Belgrade, without which such a conference would be economically unsustainable.
Smart brands
Smart Brands is the final panel of the first conference day. Four renowned European companies, famous for their creativity, will present their business case studies in this unique session, explaining processes of establishing their successful brands. These remarkable lectures will be particularly useful to representatives of economic sectors, as they will be able to learn first-hand about successful brand managing within the global strategy. Also, young professionals and students in fields of creative industries can much benefit from these lectures. Presence at this panel is possible with standard daily ticket, but also with single “evening session” ticket for only 30€, thanks to a partnership with Serbian Chamber of Commerce.
Smart culture
Smart Culture is a panel dedicated to successful European projects in the fields of cultural and creative industries. Being the key manifestation in the region of 100 million inhabitants of Europe, “between Vienna and Istanbul”, we have invited organizers of design weeks in Vienna and Istanbul, editors leading German design and architecture platform – Stylepark, as well as creative director of new architecture wonder – Design Museum in Holon. These professionals will share their experiences with our audiences, and they will give firm proofs of not only cultural and creative, but social and economic importance of such projects too. Presence at this panel is possible with standard daily ticket, but also with single “evening session” ticket for only 30€, thanks to a partnership with Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.
Smart city
Smart City, the final panel of this year’s conference SMART2, will gather 10 most successful private and state initiatives that have marked the previous year with their contribution and by giving the impulse to the creative industry of Serbia and region! At this panel, delegates will have the unique opportunity to directly learn and hear from the greatest business experts in Serbia about planning, production and results of the most important projects that are about to mark or already represent parameters for the future of the entire society. Due to kind donations of mentioned chosen companies, entry to this panel is free of charge but requires prior online registration.
