With an “edible ice breaker”, advice from a combat helicopter pilot and even a touch of magic, IMEX reports that the 2025 edition of Exclusively Corporate has been designed to connect corporate planners with each other and reveal behind the scenes insights from industry experts.

Sponsored by Destination DC with AV supplied by Encore, Exclusively Corporate is a dedicated day of networking and learning for corporate event planners, taking place at Hotel Meliá, Frankfurt City on Monday, May 19, 2025 – the day before IMEX Frankfurt 2025’s opening.

Tahira Endean, Head of Program at IMEX, explains: “The team designs the program in response to attendee feedback – we’ve put interactivity and networking at its heart and have created space for global insiders to peel back the curtain and share the secrets of their own best practice. We know that when we put the right people in the room, insights and creative sparks fly!”

Sonia Cuchillo from the European Central Bank, who attended last year, says: “Our clients, very rightly, have high expectations and we want to do our best to meet them. However, it can be a challenge to come up with new, creative solutions for clients when we have to work to defined parameters, with restrictions on resources and budget. It’s interesting to see how other planners are tackling this.”

Exclusively Corporate highlights will include:

• “Edible Icebreaker”: Experience design experts Kim Arazi and Pigalle Tavakkoli have worked with the venue (Hotel Meliá, Frankfurt City) to create a networking lunch with a difference. Attendees will be united by their shared experiences and favorite foods, forming a friendly and fun start to the program and setting the scene for the group work to follow. Later in the day, Kim and Pigalle will share their inside take on how they designed the session.
• The art of science and magic: A former experience designer for Ferrari, Ferdinando Buscema is an engineer by trade and magician at heart. As a “designer of magical experiences” he uses magic to highlight the impact of experience design. Endean says: “We can expect a fresh way of approaching design as well as a few surprises…”
• Amazon Accelerate: Amazon’s Head of Global Seller Events and its Sustainability Lead will detail how they drive sustainability solutions at their flagship seller partner conference, Amazon Accelerate.
• Innovation snapshots: Contributors to the ebx.lab White Paper 2024: Transforming Business Events will share some of their tried and tested approaches to innovation through a series of short and powerful case studies.
• In the hot seat: Event leaders from the education, engineering and blockchain sectors answer rapid-fire questions tackling everything from last-minute budget cuts to crisis management disasters.
• Thriving under fire: Combat helicopter pilot Sarah Furness shares strategies from the frontline and military leadership techniques which translate perfectly to the business world. “Performance and resilience under pressure is not instinctive,” says Sarah. “It can – and should be – taught.”

Attendance at Exclusively Corporate is by invitation only. For more information email: donna.fung@imexevents.com.