Social Events

Official Social Events

Welcome Reception

Date & Time:  Monday, August 24, 2026, 19.30-21.30
Venue: Hotel Kempinski Infinity Room (conference level)
Dress Code: Business casual
^{This is included in Member, Non-Member, and Accompany registrations.
Additional tickets are available for purchase for students, residents, and non-registered partners, priced at 80 EUR/person.}

Award Ceremony Dinner

Date & Time:  Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 19.30-23.00
Venue: Eiffel Art Studios, Locomotive Hall (1146 Budapest, Kőbányai út 30.)
Dress Code: Formal
Meeting point for bus transfer: Hotel Kempinski lobby at 19.00
^{This is included in Member, Non-Member, and Accompany registrations.
Additional tickets are available for students/residents and non-registered partners, priced at 200 EUR/person.}

The largest indoor complex in Hungarian railway history, a system of vast covered spaces unique in Europe, the Northern Railway Maintenance and Engineering Works was built between 1884 and 1886 by the Eiffel Studio. After years of alterations and renovations, it is now home to the Hungarian State Opera’s new logistics and art centre, including sets and costumes workshops, rehearsal rooms, and more. The central Locomotive Hall of the Eiffel Art Studios is the most impressive part of the complex, exhibiting a Series 327 locomotive and its cars. These engines were the most beautiful ones in Hungarian railway manufacturing history, so in the industry everyone referred to them as the Queen. The last survivor of the series was rescued from a train junkyard, and the wreck was perfectly restored by train enthusiasts assisted by the Opera workshops. The locomotive Nr. 327.016 and its teak dining car were part of the Orient Express, and while it cannot be stated with certainty, it is by no means impossible that fate may have once brought together the 327 locomotive with its coal car and dining car, as it too served on the Orient line.

Click here to read more about the history of the venue.

Trail Blazer, FIPP, and CIPS Awards Ceremony

Master of Ceremonies
Miles Day, MD, FIPP

Recognition of FIPP and CIPS honorees from Budapest 2025, Istanbul 2025 and Sao Paulo 2026
Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Kris Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Jee Youn Moon, MD, PhD, FIPP, CIPS, and Javier De Andres Ares, MD, PhD, FIPP