Conference Center Munich: The perfect location for your congresses
Whether it’s national, European or international, whether there are 6,000 or 32,000 participants—the LOCATIONS OF MESSE MÜNCHEN offer versatile solutions for your congress or conference. Benefit from Messe München’s extensive commitment to sustainability for your event too!
Excellent conference center at a top international science location
We make conferences and congresses of all sizes possible: The LOCATIONS OF MESSE MÜNCHEN offer the perfect environment for events with ideal connections to the city’s infrastructure—with a 5-star airport, over 40,000 hotel rooms, as well as culture and the Bavarian way of life. According to the Northstar Index of Top Global Convention Cities, Munich also ranks 1st in terms of safety among the world’s convention cities.
The ICM – Member of Leading Centers Europe
- Direct connection between the ICM and the Trade Fair Center Messe München
- Growth potential for large congresses on up to 200,000 square meters of total site area
- Eighteen column-free exhibition halls: versatile space for industrial and poster exhibitions as well as room installations for additional lecture rooms
- Clear overall site: easy orientation for congress participants
- Green atrium: oasis for participants to rest and recover
- Experience in hybrid congresses: perfect implementation of hybrid events
- Alternatively, the MOC is an ideal location for smaller congresses
Years of expertise combined with reliability and commitment—we would be happy to advise you
With our years of experience in organizing large congresses and conferences we offer our guest organizers from PCOs to associations solution-oriented approaches to congress preparation and implementation, and support them proactively and with foresight:
- personal support from a dedicated contact person with prompt availability and fast response times
- effective implementation of requirements, e.g. in solving overflow challenges, the best possible planning of industrial and poster exhibitions, hybrid extensions or clarification with the authorities
- variety of service partners with special offers and years of experience in working with Messe München
The Munich Convention Bureau: Our partner for the perfect congress
In cooperation with the Munich Convention Bureau, we offer various on-site services to ensure you have the perfect congress experience. These include:
- Planning on-site visits and trips
- Provision of planning documents and tourist information material
- Coordination and support regarding official conference requests
- Procurement of tickets for local public transportation
- Connection to professional service providers
- Provision of expert, multilingual tour guides
- Ideas for core and accompanying programs
- Organization for hotel block bookings for events
I am beyond than grateful for all the support from the ICM and Convention Bureau teams that were active since minute one, when the open call was sent out. They showed us from the beginning that this was a team project and they wanted to be a part of it, and that they really wanted to host the conference in Munich.
The ICM has been the home of the German Congress (DCK) since 1999. With its participants, the congress is the central and unique platform for surgeons from all specialties to come together and exchange ideas on an interdisciplinary basis. As the congress agency wikonect, we are proud to be able to accompany traditional events together with the competent ICM team. They offer great, flexible conditions for organizing large congresses in a contemporary way and rethinking them conceptually for the future.
With the ICM, we have the opportunity to realise a wide variety of event formats—from plenary sessions with over 4,000 participants to intensive workshops for just 40 scientists. There are also centralised and easily accessible exhibition and poster areas. This creates a compact congress format that facilitates intensive dialogue between scientists.
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ESC Congress – European Society of Cardiology
In 2018, the ESC brought 32,800 cardiologists from 150 countries to Munich. In addition to the ICM, the large-scale congress used a further six directly connected halls at the exhibition center. In addition to the good connection between the ICM and the pillar-free exhibition halls, in which the exhibition, poster area and room installations were realized, one highlight was the green oasis, “the atrium”, where congress participants could relax. The clear layout made it easy for congress participants to find their way around the site.
European Stroke Congress (ESOC)
With the ICM, ESOC had the opportunity to realize a wide range of event formats—from plenary sessions with over 4,000 participants to intensive workshops for just 40 scientists—and also to provide central and easy access to exhibition and poster areas. This resulted in a compact congress format that facilitated an intensive exchange between scientists. The European Stroke Society’s choice of Munich as a congress venue was underlined by the city’s attractiveness and international visibility as a scientific location.
Read the interview with Prof. Dr. Martin Dichgans, Director of Stroke and Dementia Research at Munich University Hospital.
German Surgery Congress (DCK)
At national level, the ICM hosted the 140th German Surgeons Congress in April 2023. Around 5,000 participating surgeons from all specialties used the congress as an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange. The industry exhibition with 85 industry partners was spread over more than 2,000 square meters in Hall B0 and the foyer areas of the ICM. The ICM has been home to the DCK since 1999.
Bits & Pretzels Founders Festival
The Bits & Pretzels Start-up Conference has been held annually at the ICM since 2015. Entrepreneurs, investors and industry representatives use the ICM for business development. The ICM offers the 5,000 participants spacious areas for matchmaking and speed dating, the foyer and the intermediate areas for industry exhibitions and the numerous halls are suitable for presentations and workshops. Hall C1, which is directly connected to the ICM, was also successfully used for the 6,000-person keynote speech with Barack Obama. Managing international top speakers such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Branson and Jessica Alba is done flawlessly at the ICM.
Munich—your destination for successful conferences
The metropolis in the heart of Europe is the number one high-tech location with a first-class airport, over 40,000 hotel rooms and 1,021 beer gardens.
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