f:mp. and drupa offer hybrid solutions for business restart

The congress trade fair PRINT & DIGITAL CONVENTION (PDC), which was successfully positioned by the Fachverband Medienproduktion – Professional Association Media Production - (f:mp.) in cooperation with Messe Düsseldorf, enters the next round. The organizers of PDC are planning the next staging for June 2021 at the Congress Center at the Düsseldorf fairgrounds in Germany, considering an expected positive development of the pandemic. The concept - to present solutions for combining classic print communication with the means of state-of-the-art digital and online strategies in practical applications - offers orientation, perspectives and new hope for future-oriented business planning.

Travel restrictions have reduced live events and business contacts to a minimum. Customer relations are largely focused on digital communication - the industry is longing for physical touchpoints, personal networking, interpersonal exchange.

The PRINT & DIGITAL CONVENTION has exactly this goal: As a platform for business engineering and personal exchange, the congress trade fair has been able to establish a very good reputation. Its success is based on the optimal integration of visitors and exhibitors through the presentation of innovative technologies in highlight projects, which not only showcase individual machines or tools, but also demonstrate complete solutions based on the requirements of practical applications. “The Congress & Convention format offers high-caliber knowledge transfer for exhibitors and visitors and fulfills the industry's desire for intensive industry and community networking and a presence format that remains irreplaceable despite all the enrichment provided by digital formats,” stated Sabine Geldermann, Project Director Print Technologies at Messe Düsseldorf. "Especially after the cancellation of drupa, the world's leading trade fair for print technologies, we are pleased to be able to offer a successful in-person event such as the PRINT & DIGITAL CONVENTION.”

Rüdiger Maaß, Managing Director of f:mp., is confident: “The industry wants perspective and planning certainty. We all hope that we will be able to make live formats possible again in six months. Vaccines are on the verge of availability and it is time to plan proactively and take the future into our own hands. Even though the virus may not yet be fully under control in June, we will all be able to cope better with the general conditions - not least thanks to Messe Düsseldorf's professional hygiene and infection protection concept".

Visitors to the event can expect exciting exhibits and thorough expert advice at the exhibitor stands, as well as a comprehensive and top-class program of presentations on all relevant aspects of corporate communications and print and digital technologies. The event is organized as a hybrid format, in order to offer the right access for everyone, including digital. True to the motto "Right in the center, instead of just there”.

For more information about the PRINT & DIGITAL CONVENTION 2021: https://tdm-e.f-mp.de/ 

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