Agenda - FIAT-IFTA 2024 Convention

Registration of participants

Registration
08:30 - 18:00
570 min
Foyer

FIAT-IFTA 2024 Conventon is open for business! Visit the registration desk, pick up your badge, conference package and explore the infopoints of our partners located in foyer.

Heritage Committee Meeting

Meetings
09:00 - 10:15
75 min
DIALOGUE room

Working meeting members of the Heritage Committee only.
If you would like to join the Heritage Committee and attend the meeting, please contact the FIAT-IFTA office by writing to info@thanos.org.

Global Education Committee Meeting

Meetings
10:30 - 12:00
90 min
DIALOGUE room

Working meeting members of the Global Education Comittee only.
If you would like to join the Global Education Comittee and attend the meeting, please contact the FIAT-IFTA office by writing to info@thanos.org.

Lunch

Catering
12:00 - 14:00
120 min
Restaurants in the Fabryczna City area

Get refreshed, grab something delicious and take a moment to chat with fellow attendees!

In the conference bag you pick up when you register for the event, you will find a voucher for this lunch.
You can use it in one of the 4 restaurants located in the Fabryczna City complex:
Destilo (serves European and Polish cuisine),
DOZO (serves Asian cuisine),
Pino Factory (serves Italian cuisine),
Nowa Wytwórnia (serves BBQ dishes)

At each place you will receive a short menu - you can choose one main dish from among 3. You will receive water with your meal.
Additional dishes and drinks are paid on your own.

I.C.D. Meeting (with coffee break)

Meetings
14:00 - 17:30
210 min
HARMONY room

Meeting for National Members, Active Members and Associate Members of FIAT-IFTA.
The meeting may also be attended by other registered Convention participants as observers.
Meeting in English without translation.

Registration of participants

Registration
08:30 - 11:00
150 min
Foyer

FIAT-IFTA 2024 Conventon is open for business! Visit the registration desk, pick up your badge, conference package and explore the infopoints of our partners located in foyer.

General Assembly

Meetings
09:00 - 10:00
60 min
IDEA room

Meeting of all participants of FIAT-IFTA 2024 Convention in Krakow.
The meeting will summarize the decisions made during the I.C.D. Meeting.
Meeting in English simultaneously translated into Polish.

Coffee Break

Catering
10:00 - 10:30
30 min
Foyer

Get refreshed, grab something delicious and take a moment to chat with fellow attendees!

Conference

Conference
10:30 - 13:30
180 min
IDEA room

Meet excellent speakers and get inspired! Key speakers of the conference will be outstanding Polish athletes - Jerzy Dudek and Artur Partyka!
Check the detailed conference program below! Conference in English and Polish with simultaneous translation.

10:30 - 10:40
short welcome and introduction
10:40 - 11:00
"Slavic rituals in honor of the dead: Kraków Rękawka once and today" by Norbert Tkacz, Member of the KRAK Vistula Warriors Team, co-organizer of the Traditional Rękawka Festival on the Krakus Mound in Krakow
11:00 - 11:20
"Cemeteries with AI - how to preserve cultural heritage and collective memory through digital innovation" by Stefan Schumacher, CEO of PBSGEO
11:20 - 11:50
"Creating Labor Efficiencies: Reducing Costs and Increasing Productivity" by Darrell Simpson, Principal Owner of Graystone Associates, Inc.
11:50 - 12:35
"Impact of Funerals on Grieving Bereaved and Society - from an All-Japan Survey" by Carl Becker, PhD., D.Psych. Kyoto University School of Medicine
12:35- 13:20
"When success is the goal. What can we learn from sports?", a talk with Jerzy Dudek and Artur Partyka about finding motivation for action, perseverance and bouncing back from failures, and how to lead a satisfying life moderated by Maciej Kautz, host
13:20 - 13:30
short summary

Maciej Kautz
Event host, moderator
Jerzy Dudek
Key speaker, special guest
Artur Partyka
Key speaker, special guest
Stefan Schumacher
Speaker
PhD. Carl B. Becker
Speaker
Darrell Simpson
Speaker
Norbert Tkacz
Speaker

Lunch

Catering
13:30 - 15:00
90 min
Foyer

Get refreshed, grab something delicious and take a moment to chat with fellow attendees!

Embalming Committee Meeting

Meetings
14:30 - 15:30
60 min
DIALOGUE room

Working meeting setting up Embalming Committee.
If you would like to join the Embalming Committee Meeting and attend the meeting, please contact the FIAT-IFTA office by writing to info@thanos.org.

Optional tour of the Vodka Factory Museum or Free time

Cultural program
15:00 - 18:00
180 min
Museum Vodka Factory

Explore local history!
Tour of the Vodka Factory Museum is additionally charged and requires additional registration.
Book your ticket for a certain time via this link

The tour lasts 1.5h.

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The Vodka Factory Museum is a multi-sensory journey into the world of vodka. There you can discover the history, production technology and interesting facts about the culture of consumption throughout history.

The Museum is located in the Fabryczna City complex, in a historic building of the former Vodka Factory No. 11 built in the 1930s, later the Polmos Distillery. It serves as a reminder and testimony to the identity of the place.

The museum forms seven thematic galleries and at the same time seven main stories, which include: A presentation of medieval distillation apparatus for distilling booze, a feast in a nobleman's manor, a revolution in distilling along with 19th century industrial apparatus for vodka production, a bar from the period of the Second Republic of Poland, the square in front of the Vodka Distillery No. 11 from the 1930s along with a railroad siding, an agricultural steam distillery showing a complete technological sequence, a bottling and loading room for finished products from the 1970s, vodkas from the time of the People's Republic of Poland, Polmos Krakow plants until 2010.

Workshop for cemetery managers in Poland

Conference
15:00 - 18:00
180 min
SYNERGY room

Workshop on the problems of contemporary cemeteries in Poland combined with a lecture on the design of modern cemeteries and places of remembrance.
The workshops are organized by PSP and IBPC with partnership of NECROEXPO fair in Kielce.
Check the detailed conference program below! Conference in Polish without simultaneous translation.

15:00 - 16:30

Lecture: "Multifunctionality as a Contemporary Paradigm in Cemetery Management. The Cemetery as an Environmentally Friendly, Therapeutic, and Inclusive Space" - Dr. Eng. Anna Długozima, Assistant Professor at the Department of Landscape Art, Institute of Environmental Engineering, SGGW.

16:30 - 18:00

Workshops and Panel Discussion with Participants: "Necessary Legal Changes in the Context of Cemetery Operations" covering the following topics:

1) Introduction - Archaic law, but still the law.
2) Problems faced by cemetery managers under current legal conditions.
3) Proposed amendments to the Cemetery and Burial Act: rights to a grave, repatriation of bodies and ashes for burial from abroad, burial of ashes, exhumation, removal of graves, and tombstones.
4) Summary.

The workshops and panel will be led by Dariusz Dutkiewicz, Director of the Institute of the Funeral and Cemetery Industry, Jarosław Wydmuch, Director of the Municipal Cemetery in Częstochowa and the Municipal Funeral Service in Częstochowa, and Adam Franczyk, Office Manager of the Municipal Cemetery in Częstochowa

dr inż. Anna Długozima
Speaker
Jarosław Wydmuch
Speaker
Adam Franczyk
Speaker

Sustainability Committee Meeting

Meetings
15:40 - 16:40
60 min
DIALOGUE room

Working meeting setting up Sustainability Committee.
If you would like to join the Sustainability Committee Meeting and attend the meeting, please contact the FIAT-IFTA office by writing to info@thanos.org.

Coffin Standards Committee Meeting

Meetings
16:50 - 17:40
50 min
DIALOGUE room

Working meeting setting up Coffin Standards Committee.
If you would like to join the Coffin Standards Committee Meeting and attend the meeting, please contact the FIAT-IFTA office by writing to info@thanos.org.

Please notice

The cemetery tour and the Krakow sightseeing follow directly after each other, with a break for lunch. It is not possible to join only one event.

Cemetery tours sponsored by Grupo ASV

Technical visit
08:30 - 14:00
330 min

You will visit one of the oldest cemeteries in Poland - Rakowicki Cemetery and one of the newest - Cemetery in Podgórki Tynieckie.
The coach will pick up participants from the parking lot located in the Fabryczna City complex (in front of the entrance to the CKF13 Conference Center).

Sightseeing of Krakow sponsored by Grupo ASV

Cultural program
14:00 - 18:00
240 min

You will see the most beautiful landmarks of Krakow.
Sightseeing will take place by meleks (electric vehicles) and on foot.
We will visit the Kazimierz District, the Old Town, Wawel Hill, and the Main Market Square.
You will return to the Fabryczna City complex by coach.

Optional Tourist Program - Tour of the Wieliczka Salt Mine and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum sponsored by Grupo ASV

Cultural program
08:00 - 20:30
750 min

Explore unique places!
This additional cultural tour is additionally charged. It is required to purchase participation at the time of registration for FIAT-IFTA 2024 Convention in Krakow.
Please choose a ticket that includes an Optional Tourist Program.

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“Wieliczka” Salt Mine

The Wieliczka Salt Mine is an priceless monument of material culture, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1978. The mine is so vast that only 2% of the salt labyrinth is accessible for visitors. Deep underground, you can admire extraordinary salt landscapes, impressive excavations, various types of salt rocks, saline lakes, and artworks created by miner-sculptors. During the tour, we will follow the Tourist Route and have lunch in an underground restaurant. The underground visit will last approximately 2.5 - 3 hours.

Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp)
There is no way to understand postwar Europe and the world without an in-depth confrontation between our idea of mankind and the remains of Auschwitz.
In Auschwitz-Birkenau, between 1940 and 1945, over 1.1 million men, women, and children lost their lives. The relics of the former camp are preserved by the Museum established in 1947. Today, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial includes collections, archives, as well as scientific, conservation, and publishing centers. The authentic Memorial Site consists of two parts of the former camp: Auschwitz and Birkenau. A guided tour will provide a better understanding of this unique place, serving as a poignant tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. This somber yet essential experience will offer deep insights into one of the darkest chapters of human history.
Our visit in Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau will last approximately 3 - 3,5 hours.