Anna Gorska again on the ICCA Board of Directors

Anna Gorska, who serves as Board Advisor to PCO Symposium Cracoviense, has been elected to the ICCA International Congress and Convention Association Board of Directors for another two-year term. There she will represent the Meetings Management sector together with Eyal Halevy of Paragon Group.

Symposium Cracoviense is a PCO that has existed on the Polish market for 24 years, dealing with the comprehensive organization and service of scientific and business meetings. The company's mission is to introduce and spread the principles of sustainable development in the organization of congresses. Anna Gorska has been with the company since 2019 and is responsible for relations with international associations.

ICCA is the world's most prominent meetings industry association, with the largest scope of research on the international association conference market. Member companies are divided into Branches based on geographic location and into Sectors based on the specifics of their business. Depending on the size of the Sector, it is chaired by one or two people.

Anna Gorska has been involved with ICCA for more than 15 years, representing companies from various sectors in the association over these years, first in Destination Marketing, then Facilities and now Meetings Management. From 2012 to 2018, she was also President of the ICCA Central Europe Branch.

ICCA's Board of Directors currently has 16 members. In the previous term, Anna Gorska was involved, among other things, in the creation of the ICCA strategy for 2023-2025, and actively lobbied for the organization of the ICCA Congress in Poland, which took place in Krakow on November 6-9, 2022. Symposium Cracoviense was a Local Partner of the Congress. In the next term, Anna Gorska will, among other things, be involved in the ICCA Board Marketing & Communication Work Group. Board meetings are usually held stationary twice a year, during IMEX and during the ICCA Congress. An additional meeting is planned for next year, in March.

The work at ICCA is of a social nature. Górska has been involved for years as a volunteer in Polish and international organizations related to the meetings industry. She is currently Vice President of International Affairs at SKKP, an Ambassador for Positive Events Impact and a member of the Association of Associations Executives. He also runs his own business, offering consulting and advisory services.