Themes, trends, meeting points: the event programme of spoga+gafa 2019

spoga+gafa (1 to 3 September 2019) offers more than a pure trade fair experience. With its theme worlds, practice-related formats, lectures, special events and industry parties, it creates added value for the green industry, which enhances the new products and product highlights of the exhibitors perfectly. Established items of the event programme are being enhanced by new highlights this year.

The latest garden technology will once again be presented to the trade visitors at the IVG Power Place Akku and Power Place Smart Gardening in Hall 6. The theme islands are being complemented by an own section on the City Gardening trend. Across the entire exhibition space, the technological achievements and innovative solutions that change and upgrade the green oasis will be presented. From lawn care and irrigation of the garden, to battery technologies, through to multifunctional products for small areas, a complete outdoor world evolves. At the IVG Power Place Green in Passage 4/5, key IVG members will present the themes soils, substrates, fertilisers, substitutes, plants and plant protection.Sonderfläche IVG Power Place Akku 2018, AS Motor, Halle 6

GARDENA garden award for innovative start-ups

Through the partnership between Koelnmesse and GARDENA, innovative entrepreneurs and founders, who focus on sustainable solutions for the future of the “digital garden“, will be distinguished for the first time this year in the scope of the GARDENA garden award. The prize is endowed with a total of Euro 10,000 in prize money. The award ceremony will take place at 4:00 p.m. on 2 September 2019 at the Forum 6.1 (Hall 6). The award ceremony will be preluded by a talk between representatives from the industry on the theme “the digital garden”.

Best enjoyment at BEEF! ON STAGE

In the Outdoor Kitchen World (Hall 8), exhibitors of spoga+gafa 2019 will present a large number of garden kitchen variants: from simple grill stations, to compact cooking islands, through to spacious, luxurious kitchen units. A special event this year is BEEF! ON STAGE In the form of lectures and interviews as well as show cooking at the highest BBQ level, the trade visitors will be offered best BBQ enjoyment.Sonderschau: Outdoor Kitchen World, Burn Out, Halle 8

Practical examples for DIY stores and garden centres

The POS Green Solution Islands will once again be offering practice-related examples on trendy plant themes at the point of sale for buyers and sales consultants based on concrete examples of implementation for sales areas in the specialised garden trade or DIY stores. Alongside City Gardening as the core theme and an own POS Green Solution Island, the titles of this year's POS Green Solution Islands are ‘Wellness in Nature’, ‘Kids Garden’, ‘Flower Power’ and ‘Living with Plants My Tiny Coffee Shop’.

The classic islands of the Boulevard of Ideas will once again showcase selected new products of the exhibitors of spoga+gafa on the Central Boulevard.POS Green Solution Islands: Stand: Living with plants, Boulevard, Passage 4/5,

Planning with plants - 50+ formats

The older the garden owners are, the more demanding the garden planning is: Landscape architects and executing companies will gain practice-related important basic and specialised knowledge on the target group of the best agers from five first-class speakers on Monday, 2 September, in the course of the Practical Garden Day for landscape architects and executing companies (Meeting point: Europasaal, Passage 10/11, Entrance East).

Outdoor Furniture & Decoration Trend Show

Which new solutions are there regarding the increasing urbanisation or the growing number of older people? What significance do sustainable products or the increased desire for individualisation have for the garden industry? The Outdoor Furniture & Decoration Trend Show, hosted by the famous design office, branherm + krumrey, will provide answers to these questions (Hall 10.2). The exhibits were selected based on criteria of the six currently most important design trends: City Gardening, Universal Design, New Naturalness, Freedom of Form and Design, Minimal Chic and Smart Design. Once again the own special event entitled “Icons of Outdoor Furniture” offers the appropriate setting for the trend show, where the bestselling and most stylish garden furniture of the current and also former exhibitors will be presented.Trend Show Outdoor Furniture/ Ikonen Outdoor Furniture, Halle 10.2

Guided Tour 2019

The 45-minute Guided Tours, where our experts will show you innovative products and optimal solutions for four different themes, provides a well-arranged overview of the themes of spoga+gafa. The trend expert, Frank A. Reinhardt, is offering tours on the furniture and decoration trends of 2020, the garden journalist, Manfred Eckermeier will host the tour through the garden creation & care segment and Oliver Mathys and Judith Baehner will deliver inspiration and solutions for the POS. Applications for taking part in the tours can be submitted via the homepage of spoga+gafa: https://www.spogagafa.de/events/veranstaltungen/guided-tours/guided-tours-anmeldeformular.php

Garden Café and Forum 6.1 - international lectures for the industry

In the Garden Café Forum (Boulevard/opposite Passage 4/5), Haymarket will once again be presenting the Taspo Talks and beyond this also workshops, interviews and lectures on themes like retail design, urban gardening worldwide, innovative food service concepts for the trade, E-Commerce trends and insights and perspectives for the garden market throughout the entire duration of the trade fair.Forum Gartencafe, Taspo Talk Verbraucherwunsch, Transparenz und Ehrlichkeit: Trend zu nachhaltigen Produkten, Boulevard Mitte

In Hall 6, insights into the latest developments in garden technology will be provided in the form of lectures in the scope of the Forum 6.1. The trade visitors will receive special insider tips in the course of the presentation of the “City Gardening - female gardeners under focus” survey (2 and 3 September, 10:00 a.m.), which was carried out online by Koelnmesse in cooperation with the IFH Cologne prior to the trade fair. The survey delivers the trade with important target group knowledge on the City Gardening theme.

Houston - we have a problem

If WD-40 doesn’t help, your problem is probably not a classic one. WD-40 is considered to be the number 1 problem solver for maintenance work. The original aim of the development of the product was to create a water deplacement solution for the NASA. In order to bring the product closer to its original place of implementation, spoga+gafa is shooting a can of WD-40 into the stratosphere with a weather balloon, linked up to a camera. On the Sunday of the trade fair, 1 September, at 2:00 p.m., “The countdown will be on” at the Piazza

Get together

Following tradition, the Sunday of the trade fair focuses on garden centres: In cooperation with the Association of German Garden Centres (VDG e.V.), the Garden Centre Day is being staged at spoga+gafa (1 September, 2019). Finally, the VDG traditionally invites guests to join them at their stand (Passage 4/5) from 5:00 p.m. onwards for the Happy Hour.

The IVG Garden Party (Industry Garden Association e.V.), on the Monday of the trade fair (2 September, Hall 6, Theme Islands IVG Power Place Akku and the Smart Gardening World) starting at 5:30 p.m. is a further highlight for the exhibitors, trade visitors and media representatives, where the industry meets up to network.IVG Power Place Akku, Smart Gardening Welt, Halle 6

At the close of spoga+gafa, the BHB (German DIY, Building and Garden Trade Association) will greet the green industry at the 6th BHB Garden Summit on the second floor of the Congress Centre North of Koelnmesse at 2:30 p.m. on 3 September with a welcome drink. This will be followed by a concentrated lecture programme on the current developments and trends in the garden market. From 5:30 p.m. onwards the who's who of the garden specialist market industry will then meet up in the Atrium of the Congress Centre to engage in first-class networking and enjoyment. For further information and to apply see https://www.gardensummit.de/home

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