Conferences | Presentations
Will Your Company’s Appearance Hit the Mark?
Are you faced with the task of communicating complex or extensive information to employees and customers? Are you looking for an attractive platform for your company and your messages? Do you also want to maintain the network of your company or association, while working within a limited budget?
Conferences, presentations and panel discussions are attractive communication platforms, but they also place high demands on the people appearing on stage and on the content being presented. Their concept and delivery require both strong editorial instinct and extensive experience in the production of electronic media and in moderating discussions.
Equally important is the briefing and training of speakers and panel participants: only when you know how to set the right priorities with confidence will your appearance truly serve the interests of your organisation.
Inspire and Convince Through Live Communication
More than 30 years of experience in the development, delivery and moderation of events make us your point of contact for the content, moderation and production of seminars, panel discussions, conferences and client events.
As an SME ourselves, we know that budgets do not stretch endlessly, and we shape our concepts so that they match both your needs and your resources.
Together, we prioritise your messages and shape them around the needs of your respective audiences. In close collaboration with your own communications team, event agencies and technicians, we create compelling appearances for you and your company. We prepare your senior leaders carefully for their appearances. Together, we define the priorities and stage them effectively.
Your moment in the spotlight. Companies and decision-makers under the spotlight
Hundreds of events and thousands of hours in electronic media have taught us how companies and their representatives can perform most successfully. On behalf of our clients, or as organisers ourselves, we develop, deliver and moderate conferences, press conferences, presentations and panel discussions on a wide range of topics.
FSU Central Conference on Spatial Planning and Urban Development
The Swiss Association of Spatial Planners (FSU) holds its annual central conference at the Culture and Convention Centre (KKL) in Lucerne. The full-day programme regularly includes more than a dozen specialist presentations, Q&A sessions and discussion panels on spatial planning and urban development. The presentations are delivered in Switzerland’s national languages or in English.
Since 2019, Christian Gartmann has led the central conference as moderator and discussion chair in up to four languages, interviewing speakers and leading the panel discussions. During the coronavirus pandemic, the conference was held in six online forums.
Sport Forum Schweiz & Sport Media Forum
As early as his time as a radio editor, Christian Gartmann moderated the then newly founded “Sport Forum Schweiz”. He later remained closely involved with the forum as a regular panel guest and, in 2010, took over the leadership of the sportmedien.forum as moderator and host. In the run-up to the conference, he is also jointly responsible for defining the topics and selecting the guests. In addition to the sportmedien.forum, Christian Gartmann also leads panels at the main sport.forum.schweiz conference and hosts the breakfast session on the second day of the conference, featuring presentations, interviews and panel discussions.
The sport.forum.schweiz is the leading congress for the Swiss sports business at the KKL Lucerne. The congress welcomes around 600 participants each year from sports associations, event organisers, sponsors, media and athletes. In 2020, it was held entirely in digital form due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Crisis Management and Communication
Christian Gartmann is a sought-after speaker, lecturer and author on crisis management and crisis communication. Tailored to the interests of each audience, he speaks about crisis situations and the experiences and lessons he draws from them.
Through talks, specialist articles, seminars and courses, he prepares companies for crises and for the importance of communication in such situations.
- Office of Civil Protection, Liechtenstein
- Office for Military and Civil Protection, Solothurn
- Office for Forests and Natural Hazards, Graubünden
- Conrad Storz AG, Pontresina
- Engadin Skimarathon
- Supporters’ Association “Award PR”
- Heli Bernina AG, Samedan
- Reha Clinic Bad Zurzach
- Rotex Helicopter AG, Balzers (FL)
- Swiss Association for Crisis Communication (VKK)
- Association of Friends of the Swiss Air Force (VFL)
Health & Tourism Conference
In 2015, Christian Gartmann and Isabel Wenger jointly launched the specialist conference “Health & Tourism” on health tourism in the Alpine region. By its second year, the conference was already attended by around 150 professionals from tourism, healthcare, regional development, politics and the media. Participants came from all five German-speaking Alpine countries and from eight Swiss cantons. As a result of the pandemic, the conference has not taken place since 2020.
Christian Gartmann is responsible for the conference overall. He oversees the choice of topics, recruitment of speakers, sponsor programmes and media relations, and leads the conference as host. Isabel Wenger is responsible for conference organisation, speaker support, participant management and conference technology.
Personal Publishing for Elite Athletes
Seminars tailored to elite athletes on the long-term direction of their personal media relations. Developed and delivered for Swiss Olympic, ahead of the Olympic Games, the Swiss Athletes’ Parliament and management service providers in elite sport.
150 Years of Winter Tourism
For the anniversary winter season, the municipality of St. Moritz and the Engadin St. Moritz destination organisation staged a public event in the village centre attended by more than 3,200 spectators. Christian Gartmann contributed to the development of the concept and the delivery of the 90-minute show, and hosted the event as presenter.
Well over 100 people were involved in the live production, including more than 80 performers on stage, on a specially created ski slope and in the air. Numerous live interviews with eyewitnesses and inserted film segments showcased 150 years of St. Moritz’s history as a winter sports destination, along with 50 years of film and fashion work by Willy Bogner.
St. Moritz Village Talks
Christian Gartmann developed and launched the successful Village Talks format in 2012 and stages it several times a year in co-production with the village association and the St. Moritz Spa and Tourism Association. Similar to a talk show, he discusses topics with guests on a panel while actively involving the audience in the conversation. Well-known figures from business, politics, tourism and sport, from Switzerland and abroad, regularly appear as guests at the St. Moritz Village Talks.
Expert Panels: Sport and Tourism
During the 2017 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, a major Swiss bank brought guests from several countries to St. Moritz. Three discussion rounds with former world-class skiers and senior figures from the worlds of sport and tourism formed part of the evening programme.
Christian Gartmann supported the project management team in developing the format and themes and chaired the discussion rounds as moderator. Guests included Switzerland Tourism CEO Jürg Schmid, sports manager and event organiser Gian Gilli, and former world champions and Olympic competitors Tina Maze (SLO), Martina Ertl-Renz (GER), Daniel Albrecht and Didier Cuche (SUI).
“Bilderberg” Conference
International “Bilderberg” conference at the Suvretta House hotel in St. Moritz: development of programme modules related to the Engadin. Keynote presentation on the Engadin.
Format Development for Political Discussions
In autumn 2016, six regional parties from the Upper Engadin launched a series of information and discussion events on regional political issues. Christian Gartmann developed the discussion format, launched the series in the regional media and chaired the first event in the series.
Regional parties of the Upper Engadin: BDP, CVP, FDP, Glista Libra, SP, SVP
Upper Engadin District
Advisory support, concept development and management of information and discussion events in the Upper Engadin on the referendum proposal for a new care centre, on behalf of the Upper Engadin District.
Regional parties of the Upper Engadin: BDP, CVP, FDP, Glista Libra, SP, SVP
New Media Competence in Leadership
Seminars and talks on “Modern Media in Leadership” under the company’s own medienseminar.com brand. More than 100 participants in total, ranging from management-level professionals to business owners.
