Porto & North Forever pact



Designed for Global Impact

The Porto & North Forever Pact is more than a legacy initiative — it’s an open invitation to co-create change. Born from Porto’s spirit of discovery and collaboration, the Pact connects global innovation with local action, turning the ICCA Congress 2025 into a living lab for how events can leave measurable, human, and lasting impact.

Together, we’re charting a new course, a more inclusive, innovative, and sustainable future for our business events industry — one that continues long after the final session.



The Three Tracks of Change

Each track of the Porto & North Forever Pact offers a different way for you to get involved and make a difference — to experience, contribute, and help shape the legacy of the ICCA Congress 2025.



1. Inclusion

Belonging. Opportunity. Empowerment.

Because inclusion starts with participation — and it starts with you.

Our Shared Objectives

  • Empowering vulnerable talents and communities through real participation in the Congress workforce.
  • Co-designing an event model where everyone belongs — including people with disabilities, neurodivergent participants, and the LGTBIQ+ community.
  • Fostering inclusive event design skills among delegates, suppliers, and organisers.

How You Can Engage

  • Join social integration initiatives with local partners creating real job opportunities for vulnerable talent.
  • Experience accessible, universal design across venues and sessions.
  • Learn to see events through the eyes of underrepresented communities.
  • “Learn to Break” with local youth, connecting art and inclusion through creative collaboration.
  • Wear a lanyard crafted by participants in social reintegration —a small symbol of empowerment and shared purpose.

Every connection helps build a more inclusive global events community.

2. Innovation & Creativity

Curiosity. Collaboration. Creativity.

Because innovation happens when people connect across borders and disciplines.

Our Shared Objectives

  • Inspiring local youth, students and emerging leaders to pursue careers in the Business Events industry.
  • Strengthening international collaboration and creative production through local and global partnerships.
  • Highlighting Porto & North’s creative identity as an open destination for ideas, art, and exploration.
How You Can Engage:

  • Meet local moderators, MCs, and speakers during the event, reflecting the region’s diverse voices and creative leadership.
  • Join the Creative Edge track: where performances and co-creation labs merge art, tech, and human connection, learning to look at the industry in a different way.
  • Meet and support students and professors, the (emerging) leaders shaping the future of business events. Exchange with them about challenges and opportunities in the industry!
  • Enjoy one of the many artistic performances within the congress — showcasing the region’s creative vitality.
  • Smile at our local ambassadors: a citywide network of passionate hosts and volunteers helping you to make the most of your experience.

3. Well-being 

Responsibility. Regeneration. Harmony.

Because sustainability is not a goal — it’s a shared responsibility.

Our Shared Objectives

  • Spreading the economic benefits of the Congress across the Porto & North region.
  • Improving liveability and well-being for residents, stakeholders, participants, and visitors.
  • Reducing CO₂ emissions and resource impact through smart mobility, responsible sourcing, and circular practices.
  • Supporting physical and mental well-being for all stakeholders involved — from staff to suppliers.

How You Can Engage:

  • Participate in the congress programme across iconic and community venues throughout the city, ensuring that every neighborhood touched by the event benefits socially, culturally, and economically.
  • Join the Smart Mobility Plan: swap your Uber for a metro, tram, or even a water taxi — and discover the city sustainably. Or even embrace the Walking Congress concept, connecting venues while exploring local neighbourhoods.
  • Learn how carbon tracking and circular sourcing practices reduce impact through EarthCheck’s green production programme.
  • Participate in the Well-being Programme: mindfulness, care initiatives, and recognition for staff, suppliers, and volunteers.

At this event, every action you take contributes to a regenerative model of events.



Together, for a Bigger Purpose

By joining the Porto & North Forever Pact, you’re part of a movement proving that business events can create shared value — including people, inspiring innovation, and caring for communities and the planet.

Be part of the Porto & North Pact — together, forever.



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