Name: Business Talks 2026
Start: 2026-02-05T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-02-05T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Inter Expo Center Sofia

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Driven by the desire for constant improvement, we create business events to inspire positive change.
Discussing existing problems, make disputes for Do’s and Don'ts and brainstorm for answers with proven business minds.
As the #digitaltransformation & #AI 🤖 is happening so rapidly in recent, to deliver useful information and good practices from business to business in #Bulgaria and on #Balkans.
On 5.02.2025 (Thursday) in Inter Expo Center, Sofia we invite you to enjoy 3 halls with different useful topics for business, innovations and personal development:
👉 Communications (Digital Marketing / PR comm / Disruptive Marketing / Internal Comm)
👉 AI, Technologies and innovations
(focus in HR / Communication / Digital Transformation / Cyber Security / Industry 4.0. and 5.0)
👉 People Strategies and Employer Branding
👉 HR excellence
(Engagement / Recruitment / Retention / Internal Comm )
👉 Business Development
(from Local to Global / from Global to local strategies / Sales)
👉 Communities, CSR campaigns, ESG
👉 Change Мanagement
👉 Digital Transformation inside and outside one organization
(Chatbots/ Automated services / and Industry 4.0 and 5.0)
👉 Communication
👉 Well being and work-life balance, mental health, neuroscience
👉 Inspiration Hub
(Motivational speakers / Leadership / Creative thinking and marketing insights)
The program for 05.02.2026:
1️⃣ VITOSHA HALL (470 seats)
10:00 – 11:00 Registration of attendees. Networking module: People Bingo.
11:00 – 11:10 Official opening
11.10 – 11:40 Keynote speaker (TBA)
Famous business writer / Motivational Speaker or Company CEO from abroad
11.40 – 12:10 Bulgarian Business Abroad: Expansion
Discussion panel with CEO’s from global expanded Bulgarian companies
12:10 – 12:15 The 5 min blast: Ageism in HR: “The old people” (TBC)
12:20 – 12:50 Bulgarian businesses abroad: “Africa, the new business trend”
Discussion panel with CEO’s from Bulgarian companies with global expansion in Africa
12:50 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:00 Digitalization and AI 🤖
14:00 – 14:10 Energizing session: Presenting & working with Voice (TBA).
14:10- 14:15 The 5 min blast: “The Hard Negotiations”. (TBC)
14:15 – 14:45 Women in male-dominated industries
Discussion panel with a woman pilot of Boeing airplane, woman a military commander, Woman in industry 4.0., womаn in Tech
14:45 – 15:20 Automation and Industry 4.0 v/s 5.0 Where are we?
15:20 – 15:30 Coffee - Break
15:30 – 16:00 Marketing Bulgarian production and services V/S Import.
16:00 – 16:30 Creating communities, CSR campaigns, ESG
14:30 – 17:00 Thrive in constant Change /Мarketing inspiration / Influencer Marketing and Leader Opinions (TBC)
17:30 - 18:00 #HR Excellence:
Building Top Performing teams with Тop Employers Institute (TBC)
18:00 – 19:00 Networking Cocktail with Bulgarian wine tasting
19:00 – Awards Gala “Business Talks” for 2025 (invite only)
2️⃣ RILLA HALL (40 seats)
11:40 – 12:10 Diversity and Inclusion: People with Disabilities
Companies with corporate programs for people with vision impairment, hearing and voice Impairment (TBC)
12:10 – 12:50 Diversity and Inclusion:
Do they call you with a job proposal when your are 45+ years old?
(Food for thought about Ageism, Sexism and people with disabilities as a “work force”)
12:50 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:00 “Ghosting” – the new communication pandemic
14:00 – 15:15 WORKSHOP 10 rules for successful B2B Sales, Networking and Communication (working in groups)
15:15 – 15:40 ……….. (Free SLOT)

15:40 – 15:50 Coffee – Break
15:50 – 16:20 ………… (Free SLOT)

16:20 – 17:40 WORKSHOP Unlocking Team Potential with the Power of #Creativity
(with Design Thinking and Lego Serious Play / or ”Job to be Done” methodology by Harvard Business Review (TBC)

3️⃣ PIRIN HALL (45 seats)
11:40 – 12:10 Biohacking & Wellbeing / The science of Longevity
12:10 – 13:00 Wellbeing and Work-life balance
Work – Life Balance and how to avoid to Burnout (ТBА)
13:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:00 – 13:40 Time Management, high productivity and useful apps
13:40 – 15:00 WORKSHOP in Entrepreneurship:
How to create Business Module / Personal Brand / Business Brand
15:00 – 15:40 WORKSHOP Skills for asserting influence (Тhe power of saying NO) / or METAREADING / оr „Successful presentations“ by Dale Carnegie® / or Neuroscience and Brain Training (TBC)
15:40 – 15:50 Coffee – Break
15:50 – 17:00 WORKSHOP “10+ АI programs you may need” (TBC)
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion panel (TBC)
Program is still in process and some topic could be changed.