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Co-Create & Connect

Here we focus on current topics through workshops and networking sessions.

Enter an inspiring universe where dialogue, networking and shared learning create fertile ground for new ideas and collaborations

Experience Co-Create & Connect

– a new, professional area created for dialogue, inspiration and shared learning

At the OPTIMEET Expo in 2026 you are invited inside an impressive Panorama Dome, delivered by our Core Value Partner QuickSpace – a unique and sheltered space that sets the stage for present conversations and knowledge sharing.

Here you can participate in exciting workshops and networking sessions, where current topics and challenges from everyday life are brought up for debate, all in a relaxed and informal atmosphere in an inspiring space.

Through open conversations and interactive formats, experiences and ideas are shared that provide new inspiration and concrete tools for everyday life.
Co-Create & Connect is about creating value together – a place with space for sparring, knowledge sharing and new perspectives among the participants.

Participate in exciting workshops and sessions, and leave with fresh input, useful tips and motivation to put the ideas into practice.

👉Please note: All sessions and workshops held at Co-Create & Connect have limited seating and require registration via the program on the Messe Site.

 

The program for Co-Create & Connect

The program is continuously updated with exciting, current and engaging workshops and networking sessions that give you the opportunity to get inspiration, share knowledge and concrete tools for your everyday life.

In addition, you can read more about the skilled and committed speakers and facilitators behind, who help put current topics on the agenda.

Do you have a burning desire for a current topic that should be part of the program? Then send us an email at messe@optimeet.dk

 

Program - Co-Create & Connect

09.40 -
10.10

Play & Games as an Energy Boost in Meetings

Bo Krüger
Meeting Designer, Moving Minds

When we play, we open our minds – and each other. In this energetic, hands-on session, you will gain insight into why play and games are powerful tools for creating learning, energy, and relationships in meetings. We will try out simple energizers and mini-games that you can take home and use right away – without any awkwardness or loss of focus.

Here's what you can look forward to:
  • Inspiration to use play seriously – with effect.
  • Concrete methods and games ready for your next meeting.
  • Tips for facilitating safely and avoiding the classic pitfalls.

👉 Please note: This session has limited seating and requires registration via the program on the OPTIMEET Expo Site.

Moderator: Bo Krüger – Meeting Designer, Moving Minds
10.35 -
11.05

OPTIMEET Masterclass: From event and project manager to consultant

Claus Sneppen
Meeting Advisor, Great Meetings

How do you move from primarily executing others' wishes to actively advising management, internal customers, and partners? This session focuses on how you create value even before the event is defined and how you take ownership of purpose, impact, and direction.

Here's what you can look forward to:
  • Clarity about the difference between the project manager and consultant roles
  • Specific questions that enhance dialogue with the client and management

👉 Please note: This session has limited seating and requires registration via the program on the OPTIMEET Expo Site.

Moderator: Claus Sneppen - Meeting Advisor, Great Meetings
Taste samples from OPTIMEET Masterclass in meeting and event management

This inspirational session is a smaller version of the OPTIMEET Masterclass, designed to give you an insight into this format and what it can offer you as an event and meeting manager. It combines short, incisive presentations with dialogue and networking. The focus is on how you, as an event and meeting manager, can create significantly greater value before, during, and after the event, not through larger production, but through better thinking, clearer roles, and stronger concepts.
Each session ends with a joint review and clear, useful takeaways that can be applied directly in your own practice. Exactly what participating in a Masterclass can give you.

11.35 -
12.05

AI in event planning – beyond buzzwords and into practice

Jarle Fink Kondrup
Turism Lead & Partner, Innovation Lab

Forget generic ChatGPT responses. In this workshop, we move from “Ad Hoc” prompts to professional “Tool Prompts” that deliver expert-level results every time. Learn how to embed your own expertise, experience, and company DNA directly into your prompts so that the AI works with your unique style and method.

We test the theory in practice: Can we automate the heavy legal requirements in tenders? Or create 200 personalized invitations in 5 minutes that feel like they were written by hand?

In this workshop, you can experience live demonstrations, practical examples, and even help test solutions to participants' current tasks and challenges.

Here's what you can look forward to:
  • Experience live demonstrations of specific AI solutions in practice.
  • Get practical examples based on real-life challenges.
  • Get your tasks solved with professional prompting.

👉 Please note: This session has limited seating and requires registration via the program on the OPTIMEET Expo Site.

Moderator: Jarle Fink Kondrup - Turism Lead & Partner, Innovation Lab
12.40 -
13.10

Stop “holding” events. Start designing them.

Nicoline Jacoby Hansen
Expert in participatory meetings and conferences, PLUS Agency

At this workshop, you will learn the five most important design principles behind participant-involving conferences and large meetings, and you will see a few examples of how the principles can be translated into concrete choices in your program. Finally, you will work with a planning canvas based on the design principles, so you will leave with a first draft of the plan for your next event, which you can build on after the expo.

Here's what you can look forward to:
  • You are familiar with the five principles for participatory meetings.
  • You will find inspiration for specific approaches/examples.
  • You take home a planning canvas with a first draft of your own event.
This is how the 30 minutes are structured:

15 min: The 5 design principles + specific examples/approaches

10 min: Work on your own arrangement on the planning canvas (solo or in pairs)

5 min: Summary and questions

👉 Please note: This session has limited seating and requires registration via the program on the OPTIMEET Expo Site.

Moderator: Nicoline Jacoby Hansen, Plus Agency
13.40 -
14.10

BOLD MEETINGS: Turn off autopilot and take your meetings to new heights

Bastian Overgaard
Expert in meeting culture and leadership

Lack of courage ruins your conferences and meetings. In this intense lightning workshop, Bastian Overgaard challenges a widespread human behavior that lowers the quality of both meetings and conferences.

Based on the STOP OP rule from Bastian's book MØDELAGT, you are invited to explore how small, bold steps can create better focus, stronger knowledge sharing, and more presence—without requiring major changes.

The workshop lasts 30 minutes and consists of an ultra-short presentation, reflection, and sharing in small groups.

Here's what you can look forward to:
  • The crucial pitfall that all meeting and conference planners should avoid.
  • A deeper understanding of why courage is key to good meetings.
  • A simple tool that can instantly improve the quality of your meetings.
  • New inspiration for designing meetings with more calm, energy, and clarity.

👉 Please note: This session has limited seating and requires registration via the program on the OPTIMEET Expo Site.

Moderator: Bastian Overgaard - Expert in meeting culture and leadership
14.35 -
15.05

OPTIMEET Masterclass - From staging to meaningful and value-creating experiences

Claus Sneppen
Meeting Advisor, Great Meetings

A well-produced event is not necessarily a valuable event. This session is about working insight-based and developing concepts that feel relevant, targeted, and meaningful to participants—not just impressive in form and format.

Here's what you can look forward to:
  • Understanding the difference between staging and concept
  • Insight into how understanding your target audience strengthens the impact of your event
  • Inspiration to develop sharper, more focused event concepts

👉 Please note: This session has limited seating and requires registration via the program on the OPTIMEET Expo Site.

Moderator: Claus Sneppen - Meeting Advisor, Great Meetings
Taste samples from OPTIMEET Masterclass in meeting and event management

This inspiration session is a smaller version of the OPTIMEET Masterclass, designed to give you an insight into this format and what it can offer you as an event and meeting manager. It combines short, incisive presentations with dialogue and networking. The focus is on how you, as an event and meeting manager, can create significantly greater value before, during, and after the event, not through larger production, but through better thinking, clearer roles, and stronger concepts. Exactly what participating in a Masterclass can give you.

15.30 -
16.00

CoastZone - Ready to recharge your team with active learning?

Thomas Liebe
Co-founder & Partner, CoastZone
Sandra Houmann
Head of Commercial & Partner, CoastZone

How do we ensure that the time we spend together as teams creates real value, recharges our batteries, and doesn't just become another item on the agenda? CoastZone gives you insight into how breaks and active learning can transform meetings and gatherings into something that lives on long after we've said goodbye.

Based on human diversity, Sandra and Thomas demonstrate how we can actively work to strengthen cooperation, create mutual understanding, and make development an integral part of everyday life.

Here's what you can look forward to:
  • A new understanding of active learning.
  • Focus on collaboration and the strength of diversity.
  • Tools for making development an integral part of everyday life.
  • Three keywords that create job satisfaction, strengthen relationships, and drive progress in everyday life.

👉 Please note: This session has limited seating and requires registration via the program on the OPTIMEET Expo Site.

Moderator: Thomas Liebe – Co-founder & Partner, CoastZone  ·  Sandra Houmann – Head of Commercial & Partner, CoastZone

Bo Krüger

Meeting Designer, Moving Minds


Bo Krüger is an expert in facilitation, anti-fragility, learning, creativity and meetings – both physical and virtual. He helps organizations thrive and stand strong in a world that is changing rapidly. He does this through inspiring lectures, engaging courses and by designing and facilitating everything from small workshops to large conferences.

 

Bo is known for his energy, creativity and ability to make complex topics simple and applicable. In addition, he is the author of several professional books, including “Meeting Management – ​​How to Lead Value-Creating and Motivating Meetings.”

Experience Bo Krüger at Co-Create & Connect at 09.40 in the Workshop - Play & Games as an Energy Boost in Meetings

Bastian Overgaard

Expert in meeting culture and management


Bastian Overgaard is among Denmark's leading experts in value-creating meeting culture. With over ten years of experience, he has inspired managers and employees in both private companies and public organizations to create meetings that provide real value. He provides simple and effective tools that can be put into use immediately - and which are quickly felt in everyday life. The focus is not only on efficiency, but also on how meetings can strengthen collaboration, communication and community.

 

Bastian is also the author of the bestselling book “Noiseless Management - How to Achieve More by Talking Less”, where he introduces concrete methods for creating more value through less noise, as well as “MØDELAGT - 7 Meeting Rules”, which give you more time, focus and job satisfaction.

Experience Bastian Overgaard at Co-Create & Connect at 13.40 in the Workshop - BOLD MEETINGS: Turn off autopilot and take your meetings to new heights

Jarle Fink Kondrup

Turism Lead & Partner, Innovation Lab

Jarle Fink Kondrup is one of the country's leading innovators at the intersection of technology and the experience economy. With over 20 years of experience as a futurist and facilitator, he has his finger on the pulse of the technologies that are shaping tomorrow's meeting and event industry.

Jarle brings a unique combination of visionary thinking and practical experience to the debate. He has facilitated over 300 workshops for players such as VisitDenmark and HORESTA, where he has worked hands-on with implementing digital solutions that create real value. 

Jarle is not afraid to challenge the status quo and focus on the ethical dilemmas and the human factor in an AI-driven future. He will contribute with sharp perspectives on how we balance the possibilities of technology with the indispensable human touch, and how we prepare for the meeting formats of the future.

Experience Jarle Fink Kondrup on the Co-Create & Connect 11.35 in his Workshop: AI in event planning – beyond buzzwords and into practice

Claus Sneppen

Associate Partner at the Institute for Future Studies, meeting consultant at Great Meetings, and facilitator of Optimeet Masterclass.

Claus Sneppen has been working with meetings, events, and communication since his early days as an officer in the Army, where his interest in the interplay between structure, behavior, and decision-making was founded. Today, he works with the meetings, knowledge work, and organization of the future in an increasingly digital reality.

Claus is the author of international books on meetings, events, and modern workplaces and has spent decades studying how meetings and interaction create organizational and business value. In recent years, his work has focused particularly on the intersection between strategy, leadership, behavior, and space, with an emphasis on how meetings and working methods need to be rethought in line with increased digitalization and hybrid working patterns.

Claus advises and inspires management teams, organizations, and public institutions on developing more effective, human, and purpose-driven meetings and forms of collaboration, translating insights into concrete strategic choices with a practical approach.

Experience Claus Sneppen at Co-Create & Connect at 10.35 in the OPTIMEET Masterclass - From event and project manager to consultant & at 14.35 in the OPTIMEET Masterclass - From Staging to Meaningful and Value-Creating Experiences.

CoastZone - Thomas Liebe & Sandra Houmann

Teambuilding and development experts

 

Meet two of the partners from Denmark's largest team building and development company.

With a unique DNA, passion, and drive for active learning—and a mission to get people moving—we provide you with insight and inspiration on how new knowledge and theory are put into practice. This is where we create results that make a real difference.

 

Thomas Liebe: Co-founder & Partner at CoastZone. Expert in active learning with tools such as The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team®, Insights® and Everything DiSC®. Thomas is known for his presence and humorous communication style, which brings theory to life and helps teams reach their full potential.

 

Sandra Houmann: Head of Commercial & Partner at CoastZone. She combines strategic thinking with practical experience and helps organizations create strong teams and effective communication. With a master's degree in Corporate Communication and HR, as well as solid practical experience, she understands the complex dynamics of modern organizations and ensures that development is anchored in everyday life.

Experience CoastZone with Thomas Liebe & Sandra Houmann at Co-Create & Connect at 15.30 in the Workshop – Ready to recharge your team with active learning?

Nicoline Jacoby Hansen

Expert in participatory meetings and conferences, PLUS Agency



Nicoline Jacoby Hansen has a PhD in adult learning and dramaturgy and has worked for many years on how to increase participant engagement at large meetings and conferences. Her research interests include knowledge sharing in knowledge-intensive companies, developing executive master's programs, and research communication. She is passionate about designing dialogues between people where you can feel that something is happening: where people become smarter, say what is important, and want to take the next step.


PLUS Agency designs learning experiences that make participants remember – and act on – what they hear. We help companies and organisations when they need to create a new direction, engagement or mobilise for joint action.

We are experts in engaging participants and use techniques from gamification and immersive learning when we design and run everything from strategy days and employee days to industry conferences. And when we develop materials for everyday conversations and learning – e.g. about leadership, collaboration, employee development and professional topics.

Experience Nicoline Jacoby Hansen at Co-Create & Connect at 12.40 in the Workshop - Stop “holding” events. Start designing them.