The leading international trade fair
for the future of work. ORGATEC.
ORGATEC
ORGATEC is the leading international trade fair for the modern working world. IBA is its conceptual sponsor and is responsible for the WW – Work Culture Festival, which will take place as part of ORGATEC 2024 from 22 to 25 October 2024 in Cologne.
The Mission
New Visions of Work
Employees who want to perform well need a work environment that supports them. ORGATEC exhibitors and visitors show what this environment could look like. Their broad perspective includes much more than the traditional workplace — but that also a lot to offer. After all, today work is being done in a great variety of places: at home, on the road, at the desk, in the project room or in the cafeteria.
ORGATEC 2024
The first Work Culture Festival within the ORGATEC structure
The first Wherever Whenever – Work Culture Festival, which will be embedded in ORGATEC 2024 from 22 to 25 October 2024, will explore the transformation of the world of work.
What will be the main characteristics of the future of work? In a lively spectrum of talks, panels, interactive workshops and exhibitions, international experts from the fields of architecture, design and culture, New Work, HR and trend research will dive deeply into the transformation of the world of work. The festival will create a vibrant platform for everyone participating in the design of worlds of work. You can find an initial foretaste on our festival website. The full programme will also be available there shortly.
The Role of the IBA
Conceptual Sponsor
The organizer of ORGATEC is Koelnmesse. The IBA is its conceptual sponsor. This means that the IBA and its members actively support the Koelnmesse team’s preparation and staging of ORGATEC, the leading international trade fair for modern office work. The support activities include defining the overall content of ORGATEC, supporting the project management and public relations work, and cooperatively implementing the event formats. In addition, the IBA organizes its own contributions to the programme. In 2024 this will be the Wherever Whenever – Work Culture Festival.
A Review
ORGATEC 2022
After an involuntary long pause, Koelnmesse and the IBA once again invited exhibitors and visitors to the trade fair halls from 25 to 29 October 2022. The slogan was “New Visions of Work”. Around 600 exhibitors from 35 countries contributed to the event’s success. The IBA Forum was there as well, with the largest stage at ORGATEC 2022, four interesting partners and lots of inspiration.
You can find the recordings of the presentations in our media center.
A Review
ORGATEC 2020
On account of the Covid-19 pandemic, ORGATEC 2020 had to be cancelled.
A Review
ORGATEC 2018
From 23 to 27 October 2018, 63,000 people from 142 countries came to Cologne in order to find out about the latest trends in office work. In line with the slogan “Culture@Work”, the organizers and exhibitors showcased numerous ways to design office work. On display were products for office workplaces, concepts for project rooms and new ideas for communication and design areas in hotels, for example.
The highlights of the supporting programme were the second Time Conference Work & Style, the XING New Work Sessions ORGATEC and the presentation of the Best Workplace Awards by the IBA and the employer evaluation platform kununu. In addition, the IBA was represented by its own presentation stage.
The cover photo of the page: © Koelnmesse
