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Lectures and focus of the Festival

The Marketing Festival is designed for anyone involved in digital marketing. Whether you're a CMO, advertising strategist, creative professional, or SEO/PPC specialist, this festival is meant for you. If you have a passion for our industry and a desire to improve or excel, you've come to the right place.

Our goal is to identify outstanding personalities worldwide whose opinions shape the current world of digital marketing, bring them to the Czech Republic, and offer a tremendous amount of inspiration to our audience.

In this year's edition, we have curated a balanced mix of strategic and technically focused content. This will be featured in the main program on the stage of the Janáček Theater, as well as in workshops and training sessions.

We are extremely proud of our audience. The Marketing Festival 2024 will be attended mostly by senior marketers with many years of experience.

⅔ of our audience are in-house marketers from companies and only ⅓ are representatives from agencies and freelancers. This year's mktfest will offer amazing networking opportunities. Coincidentally, equally ⅔ of the marketers at the festival primarily deal with B2B marketing and only a third with B2C. In terms of sectors, most attendees are addressing marketing for IT and technology companies, followed by manufacturing and industry, e-commerce, healthcare and the financial sector.

The festival is also very popular with universities this year, and we're glad for that. We are looking forward to welcoming participants from AMBIS, NEWTON University, ESF MUNI, VŠB, Ostrava Unvierzita, University of Žilina and J.J. Strossmayer, Osijek, Croatia.

About 90% of our audience is from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, 10% from abroad. We have people from the Netherlands, Greece, France, Croatia, but we can also boast paying participants from Australia and India.

The February Festival program will span over three days:

Tuesday, February 20, 2024: Welcome Party

Wednesday, February 21, 2024: A day filled with training and workshops. Get ready for an evening at the Bar!

Thursday, February 22, 2024: The main day featuring inspiring talks from experts around the world on the stages of the Janáček Theatre. And in the evening? A real music festival at Fléda.

Certainly not through ChatGPT. :)) Our speaker selection process begins in October 2022, a year and a half before the Marketing Festival takes place. We thoroughly review the content of over 200 speakers from around the world, assessing their quality and relevance to our audience. Finally, we choose the best of the best, who will be the keynote speakers you'll see in February in Brno.

Unlike many other conferences, we do not offer the option to "buy a speaking slot." We consider this approach to be a negative stereotype of the industry. Our conference partners, while highly valued, do not have the ability to influence the content presented at the Marketing Festival.

On the contrary, we invest a significant portion of the entrance fee to compensate our speakers. This allows us to provide you with independent, high-quality, inspiring, and up-to-date lectures from the best experts around the world.

Our program features foreign speakers, so English will be the primary language for all lectures and some of the workshops this year. Unlike previous years, Marketing Festival 2024 will not provide simultaneous translation. However, we are confident that this won't pose a problem for our audience.

We provide refreshments for all our Wednesday trainings, and it's included in the price. However, our main focus is, of course, on the main day of the Marketing Festival, which is Thursday at the Janáček Theatre. You can look forward to coffee and coffee drinks from Rebelbean and a variety of refreshments for both coffee breaks and lunch. We offer a selection of gluten-free, lactose-free, and vegan options.

Tickets

A ticket for this year costs CZK 9,890 without VAT. There are currently less than 10% of free tickets left.

  • 9 lectures by world-class speakers that will change your view of marketing
  • First-class catering, coffee and soft drinks throughout the main day
  • Video recordings of all lectures in high quality
  • Entry to 3 festival parties, all bars and concerts
  • Possibility of registration for training and other accompanying program
  • Networking with senior marketers from companies, agencies and freelancers

We recommend that you purchase your ticket directly on this page of our website. It is possible to pay by bank transfer to the advance invoice, or online by credit card. In all cases, you will receive a tax receipt after payment.

You don't have to, but we highly recommend it. You will be sure that every participant will receive all the essential information by e-mail in time. For example, about registrations for training and accompanying events.

You can leave the participant names blank when placing the order and fill them in later, but no later than February 15, 2024.

We appreciate your interest in buying tickets in bulk, but we are unable to offer a discount for this. It is our policy not to undercut ticket prices or engage in bartering, voucher distribution, or speaker discount coupons. Our aim is to ensure fairness, so you can be confident that everyone pays the same price for their ticket unless they are one of our speakers or training instructors.

Yes, it is possible to transfer your ticket to another person. However, please note that the change of participant must be reported no later than Thursday, February 15, 2024. You can do this by logging into your account or by sending an email to info@marketingfestival.cz.

You can request a refund for your ticket until December 31, 2023, and receive 80% of the ticket amount back. After this date, it is only possible to transfer the ticket to another person within the system.

Parties and networking

This year, we have prepared three evening events for you.

Already on Tuesday, February 20th, we can meet at the welcome party. It takes place in pivovar Harry and starts on 6 PM.

On Wednesday, February 21st, you can socialize at the best bars throughout Brno. You can find more details in the program or directly in the Facebook events:

On Thursday, February 22nd, we will party together at a real music festival at Fléda. You can look forward to bands like Tata Bojs, Prago Union, or Malalata.

Yes, indeed. It has never happened before in history that legendary venues like Bar, který neexistuje (Bar that doesn't exist), Nový whiskáč, Slast, or 4Pokoje were closed to the public for an evening. We greatly appreciate that this is possible for the Marketing Festival.

The bars will be open from 5:00 PM, and you can head there for a drink, an early breakfast, or just to grab a good spot. Even though we have 4 entire bars to ourselves, it might still be too crowded for Marketing Festival attendees at some point during Wednesday night. At such times, our social media team will be ready to advise where to go next. For instance, we have additional tables prepared at Harry’s Brewery, just a few meters from Bar, který neexistuje.

Unfortunately, the capacities of the individual venues do not allow us to accommodate "plus ones."

Trainings

This year, we are planning approximately 25 trainings and workshops, 6 of them in English. We are incredibly proud to offer trainings that are often not available in the market. These may involve top Czech experts who do not typically conduct trainings or individuals from abroad who you may not frequently encounter here. The complete training offer in English can be found here trainings page.

Participation in a training or workshop is available exclusively to Marketing Festival attendees. Most trainings cost 1,500 CZK excluding VAT. Each training is unique, varying in topics and format. Some will be more interactive and resemble workshops, while others will be more lecture-based. For more information on format, content, or language, please refer to the specific subpage of the chosen training.

Registration for trainings takes place on our website in the trainings section and starts on January 30th at 10:00 AM. To register for trainings, it is necessary to have a paid ticket and be logged in to our website.

Each participant registers for trainings individually. They must be logged into their own account and have a valid ticket.

When purchasing trainings, it is possible to choose different billing details than when purchasing a ticket for the Marketing Festival. If your company wishes to have multiple trainings on a single invoice, please contact us at info@marketingfestival.cz, and we will be happy to assist you.

No, unfortunately, that's not possible - each participant must select their own trainings within their own account.

No, changes after registration won't be possible for technical and organizational reasons.

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Feb 20-22, 2024
Janacek Theatre, Brno

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