27/08/2009 - Full Golf Conference program unveiled!
The Golf Management Conference organization is very proud to announce its full program. For the first time golf management symposium of this level will be hosted in Belgium. The conference will face the future of Golf in Belgium. Finance, marketing, ecology, sport, junior education, golf participation are the topics of a very broad conference approach.
09/10 | Friday | Conference |
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Start | Finish | Detail | Speaker (where relevant) |
08.30 | 09.15 | Registration and Coffee welcome | Golf show |
09.15 | 09.25 | Conference Welcome | Jan Hendrickx - President Golf Management Association of Belgium |
09.25 | 10.10 | Developing Belgium as a Golf destination | Roger Pride (Director of Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Ltd and Wales board of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.) |
10.10 | 10.55 | Vision 2005: The Dutch vision on the future evolution of Golf participation and business, in a European Perspective. | Lodewijk Klootwijk (The netherlands - EGCOA) - Marcel Welling (President of the European Golf Course Owners Association and Algemeen Directeur van BurgGolf) - Mathieu Hoeberigs (Head of Sports Sector and Head of Unit (acting) at Eu Commission) |
10.55 | 11.15 | break |
11.15 | 12.00 | The KPMG Golf Benchmark: Reports on the golf business focusing on the economic value of golf, golf tourism, the cost of developing golf courses and their business performance throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMA) and further afield. Focus on Belgium. | Mark Sandilands (Manager at KPMG) |
12.00 | 12.45 | Golf: Environmental opportunities - profit, performance, profile and protection | Jonathan Smith (Chief Executive of Golf Environment Europe) |
12.45 | 13.45 | Lunch (walking) Sponsored by Van Dyck Marcel Belgium nv |
13.45 | 14.30 | Finding the Belgian Tiger Woods. Learning from other sports and countries.
Sports policy factors leading to international sporting success. | Dr. Veerle De Bosscher (Department Sports Policy and management - Vrije Universiteit Brussel). |
14.30 | 15.15 | Golf Club management
The Certified Club Manager and management education | Jerry Kilby (CMAE - Consultant Chief Executive at Club Managers Association of Europe) |
15.15 | 15.30 | break |
15.30 | 16.00 | Golf greenkeeping and Course Design
Renovation & Maintenance of The Golf Course | Bruno Steensels (Belgium - Golf Course Architect) |
16.00 | 16.30 | The Biomechanics of the Golf swing | Ryan Lumsden (Golf Biomechanist) and Ramsey McMaster (Golf Physiotherapist) - Australia |
| 16.30 | 17.00 | Panel Discussion - Audience Q&A | All key-note speakers |
17.00 | 17.30 | Closing Coctail and closing speech sponsored by Securitas Transport Aviation Services | TBC |
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