How can the international professional community help Lviv and Ukraine to recover? How mission based associations can contribute to Ukraine’s victory and leave a positive impact? Lviv Convention Bureau tried to find answers at the first edition of UNBROKEN EMERGENCY SUMMIT that was held in Lviv, October 30. Representatives of International associations and organizations come to […]
Since the beginning of the war, Lviv has become a humanitarian and medical hub, where thousands of Ukrainians could get shelter and proper medical treatment. Lviv City Council together with NGOs, businesses launched a lot of activities to make the city more accessible. For example, National Rehabilitation Center “UNBROKEN”, which provides assistance to military and […]
More than 150 events and about 20,000 participants – that’s about 30th anniversary Lviv International Literary Festival BookForum. The theme of this forum is “Census of the Future”: life, happiness and culture during and after the war. The events took place at several locations in Lviv’s city center, taking into account all security measures. The […]
Highly specialized conferences continue to be held in Lviv, bringing together experts from all over the world. The International Conference on Сhildren’s Otolaryngology EUROLOR-2023 is held according to tradition. The organizer of the event, Honorary Ambassador of Lviv Fedir Yurochko, gathered 250 doctors on site and 700 online participants. During the meeting, 11 experts shared […]
Before the war the biggest conferences in Lviv can be held in one venue. Right now it is impossible because of security issues. We can not gather so many attendees in one location. And Lviv IT Cluster – organizer of the biggest IT Conferences in Eastern Europe IT Arena accepted this challenge. Instead of reducing participants, […]
The NomadMania Awards for the first time ever will be held live in Lviv on October 21th. Passionate travelers from all over the world will come to Lviv, Kharkiv, Kyiv to take part in the ceremony and demonstrate a strong commitment to Ukraine. All that happened due to the efforts of Lviv Honorary Ambassadors Orest […]
Last week, the team of the Lviv Convention Bureau spent time in the company of James Latham, a British journalist and founder of a business publication about the conference industry and the legacy left behind by the “ICEBERG” conferences. We filmed a report about how Lviv and the city’s conference industry is going through the […]
Last week 18-20 July LCB Director Olena Pavluyk visited the Annual Convention in Dallas (USA) organized by Destination International. It was an amazing opportunity for Lviv to be a part of this great event, to meet industry peers, to discuss actual topics, to learn so much from industry leaders. It was one more platform to […]
Lviv during the war became a shelter for more than 150,000 temporary displaced people from all over Ukraine, center for humanitarian aid, the biggest volunteer hub, meeting place of international press, office for international diplomacy, a place for business relocation. LEGACY OF ENSURING RULE OF LAW United For Justice Conference In March 2023 Lviv was […]
More than 700 participants and 40 speakers from different countries took part in conference, workshop and city excursions. Urban Forum in Lviv unites a lot of experts in architecture, urbanism, city planning etc to talk about rebuilding of Ukrainian cities after russian bombs. There were a lot of examples of European cities that got through this […]
4,5 million portion of food. Such a huge number of food prepared Lviv catering company “FEST” together with World Central Kitchen during the first 7 months of war. They almost fed 35,000 people a day in Lviv. FEST and WCK opened food stations near Main Railway Station in Lviv, brought food to shelters for internally […]
Lviv held the International Media Forum that gathered more than 400 media experts, public leaders, intellectuals and policymakers from different countries in one shelter. The main topic of the event was “Before and after war. How can civilization defeat chaos?”. The participants talked about freedom; how to win the war without losing the peace. The focus […]
During 3 days in Frankfurt, the Lviv Convention Bureau told international partners how Lviv lived during the war, what projects were implemented, and how international associations and organizations can contribute their expertise and resources to the projects in Lviv and leave their legacy. Team managed to hold more than 30 business meetings, a presentation of […]