ONLINE MARATHON "GMID-2022. UNITED FOR UKRAINE"
On April 19, Lviv Convention Bureau held an online marathon “GMID-2022. United for Ukraine”. The event was dedicated to Global Meetings Industry Day, which is celebrated annually. The celebration of GMID-2022 was another opportunity to tell international partners about Russia’s war against Ukraine.
During the marathon there were two fundraising initiatives:
– Grant Fund to support Ukrainian students studying tourism and the MICE industry abroad. The gathering is organized by the largest association of the meeting industry MPI.
– Means of protection – first aid kits, turnstiles, bandages, helmets, walkie-talkies for military medics. The gathering is organized by the National Scout Organization Plast in Lviv.
LCB invites you to support fundraising initiatives.
The online marathon included two panels:
– Events that create peace
– Lviv and the conference industry during the war
In the first part, Krzysztof Cieluch, CEO of Celuch Consulting, spoke with Dorota Wojtczak, Marketing Director of Live Age, Michał Czerniak, CEO of BRILL AV MEDIA, Michał Michałowski, Senior Partner of KDK events and Sofiya Kayinska, Acting Director of Lviv Convention Bureau. It was about the role of events in the modern world, about how events can bring peace.
The participants spoke about their experience, shared memories from the first days of the war, and talked about how the work of their teams is organized now, what challenges they faced and what they will do after the victory. Denys Rynsky said that from the first days of the war he was at the railway station because it was there that he saw the greatest need to help people fleeing the war.
Inna Klyap shared that with the beginning of the war her team joined in creating navigation at the railway station to help people who are navigating for the first time in Lviv, where to go and where to stay.
During the second panel, LCB also talked to Lviv Honorary Ambassador Andriy Bazylevych, who is the former chairman of the Ukrainian Medical Society and the president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Societies.
Andriy Bazylevych told how international medical associations and organizations help Ukraine with medicines and medical equipment. He also spoke about the opening of field hospitals, training for medical students and joint initiatives to hold medical conferences in Lviv.
