YMC 2027 - OFFICIAL PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 22 APRIL 2027 — ARRIVALS

Time Event Location
15:00–17:00
Registration Table
Collect your badge and get your bearings before the room fills up.
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels
17:00–17:30
Meet & Greet for First-Time Attendees
If this is your first YMC, you will not be walking into a room of strangers. First-timers meet each other before anyone else arrives.
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels
19:00–21:00
Opening Reception & Standing Dinner
Standing, on purpose: it is easier to join a conversation when nobody is seated.
TBA
* If you arrive at the hotel after the Registration Table has closed, please inform the organizers in advance so we can arrange the handover of your name badge.

FRIDAY, 23 APRIL 2027 — SPEED-NETWORKING

Time Event Location
09:00–10:30
Speed-Networking · First Session
Short, structured meetings, one after another. You know who is sitting down opposite you before you sit down.
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels -
conference room Alexander
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
Where the conversation you just started carries on.
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels
11:00–12:30
Speed-Networking · Second Session
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels - 
conference room Alexander
13:00–14:00
Lunch
Restaurant Gaumenfreund
14:00–15:30
Speed-Networking · Third and Final Session
Three rounds, and by the end of them you have put a face to most of the room.
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels -
conference room Alexander
15:30–18:30
Time of Your Own
Berlin is outside. Take an hour, or take the afternoon with the people you just met.
Berlin city
18:30
Transfer to Dinner
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels
19:00–21:00
Dinner
TBA

SATURDAY, 24 APRIL 2027 — THE CONFERENCE

Time Event Location
09:00
Opening of the YMC Official Conference
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels -
conference room Alexander
09:10–10:30
Keynote — Alain Taieb
Chairman of the Board, Mobilitas Group

More than 30 brands, including AGS, and almost 5,000 people across 103 countries. Alain is not here to present a company; he is here to talk about the career behind it, and what he would tell someone starting out now.
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels -
conference room Alexander
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels
11:00–13:00
Panel Discussion
Four young professionals from four different countries, with a moderator. The same job, different markets: where the practice lines up, and where it really does not.
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels -
conference room Alexander
13:00–14:00
Lunch
Restaurant Gaumenfreund
14:30–16:30
Team-Building Activity — Everyone Together
The part people still talk about a year later.

16:30–18:30
Time of Your Own
Berlin city
18:30
Transfer to Gala Dinner
Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Leonardo Hotels
19:00–22:00
Gala Dinner — YMC Cup Award
The last evening, and the moment the YMC Cup is handed over.
DEEP - Berlin Mitte

Please note that the programme, timings and locations are subject to change as event arrangements are finalised.