European Communication Summit

The European Communication Summit annually gathers the leading Communication Directors and Spokespersons for a two-day-conference in Brussels. Participants come from business, politics, associations and media across Europe. Hearing presentations and discussions of more than 60 top speakers, they debate strategies and tools, methods and best cases within the fields of Corporate Communication, PR, Media Relations and political communication. The event is co-hosted by the European Association of Communication Directors and Communication Director, the professional magazine.

On June 30 and July 1, communications professionals from across Europe gath­ered in Brussels for the fifth annual Euro­pean Communication Summit. Focused on the theme of communications lead­ership, the European Communication Summit 2011 was attend­ed by more than 600 communications professionals from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds. This year, the incorporation of a moderator, Karin Helm­staedt of Deutsche Welle, established a concrete link between the different aspects of the conference programme. Another new aspect of the Summit structure was the introduction of "Main Sessions," which is more interactive than the "classic key­note". Each Main Session included mul­tiple keynote speeches, media content, interviews and discussions between speakers. Some high points of the Sum­mit included keynote speeches empha­sising the importance of communication strategy and sessions on Corporate So­cial Responsibility, Social Media and In­ternal Communication.