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Thank you! Thanks to all the dramaturgs, moderators and speakers. Thank you to all the participants, helpers and suppliers. Thank you all for the amazing atmosphere, smiles, enthusiasm and your time. And the entire eBF team would like to thank the main heart and soul of the festival Zuzka Kawuloková, this year it was a ride again.

And if you are sad like us, because this year’s festival has come to an end but you still want to stay with us, just remember you can relive the memories at the eBF photo galleries. At the same time, we made a small commitment to fill the eBF website and our LI profile with a few more Slivers from eBF. Plainly put may the end of our spring and the beginning of our summer pass nicely together.

THE SHOW MUST GO ON – eBF 2024

For those who are asking and looking forward to eBF 2024, I have good news. Preparations are starting lightly! During the term 11.-14. 6. 2024 taking place in Ostrava. Next year will be the twentieth anniversary celebration! All year round, we will be collecting inspiration, ideas and advice, so that next year's eBF will be a great success again, more playful, more pleasant and full of knowledge, so that once again it will be an unforgettable experience for all of us.

The eBF team also invites you to the semester courses, Digital shopping team (pbacademy.cz) and A digital custom team that will premiere this year.

As of Wednesday, we know the winners of the Fair Sourcing Awards for the year 2023. During an evening full of music and dance, the awards went to the following wonderful personalities and organizations:

GRAND PRIX Leona Gergelová Šteigrová, Ministry of Regional Development Tomáš Veit, Asahi Europe & International

TREND PUBLIC 1st place: Purchasing team for the South Moravian Region 2nd place: Jana Dubcová, Central Purchasing of the Pilsen Region 3rd place: Adela Havlova, HAVEL & PARTNERS

TREND PRIVATE 1st place: Cequence 2nd place: Petra Vrbová, GasNet CZ 3. place: Agata Szymczak, Amazon

MASTER PUBLIC 1st place: Jakub Váňa, South Moravian Region 2nd place: Leona Gergelová Šteigrová, Ministry of Regional Development 3rd place: Jana Dubcová, Central Purchasing of the Pilsen Region

MASTER PRIVATE 1st place: Martin Zelinka, Siemens Energy 2nd place: Tomáš Veit, Asahi Europe & International 3rd place: Zdeněk Pytlíček, GasNet CZ

Congratulations!

The first opportunity to meet at eBF this year was the Tuesday evening vernissage of the TOGETHER exhibition. It took place for the seventh time and once again proved to be a great chance to immerse oneself in the festival atmosphere and perhaps even discuss one's own artistic creations. Traditionally, the exhibition showcases various works by painters, photographers, ceramicists, and jewelers from the amazing team that has been formed around eBF over the years. For the first time, we adorned ourselves with playful colors by British artist Darrell, and we also premiered an artwork "painted" by artificial intelligence. All of this took place in a packed hall accompanied by the phenomenal saxophonist Michal Žáček from Ostrava. For those who missed it, the exhibition, installed on the ground floor of our building, can still be visited during the remaining three days of the festival.

This year's eBF edition will be truly devilish. Not only because of the well-thought-out professional and accompanying program, but mainly because there will be exactly 666 of us. However, let us not be misled. The triple six is not just a symbol of the devil; it also signifies the ability of imagination and intellect, whose combination brings about positive outcomes. It is an incredible number and we are looking forward to seeing everyone.

We are honored to welcome AMAZON STAGE again after a year and thus continue the complete synergy of one of the world's most valuable brands AMAZON with the phenomenal procurement festival eBF. On this scene under the baton of the brilliant dramaturg Michal Kristiňák creates a unique thematic block lecture. Judge for yourself:

There is nothing more wonderful than when two important subjects, in two neighboring countries, open common, topical and professional topics. Thanks to the cooperation of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic and the Public Procurement Office, we will discuss national public procurement strategies, professionalization and education, leadership and motivation, and we will not forget sustainability or innovation. On behalf of Leona Gergelová Šteigrová and Peter Kubovič, we invite you to the VISEGRAD STAGE at eBF 2023.

We are grinding things to perfection and finishing the festival materials for you. The program map has been given the final stamp of approval. So, navigational elements, dots, boards and posters are connected to each other in an original and comprehensible mosaic. The 208 sheets of the eBF 2023 handbook are completed into a unique visual in the printer. This handbook will also go down in the history of our festival as the first one where we used artificial intelligence for English translations (a small test sample). Are you wondering how good the AI translator is? And how will Darrell's pictures bring the festival to life? Come next week to eBF in Ostrava.

The stage of the Japanese brewing group ASAHI is an integral part of the festival for the umpteenth time program. The rising sun, ASAHI in Japanese, will undoubtedly shine through all of its themed blocks, under the leadership of the festival's main dramaturg Tomáš Veit. No chair is left empty when these speakers will share their valuable knowledge on topics such as:

This well-known Swahili phrase expresses carefreeness, it is synonymous with "I'm fine", "no problem". And it expresses the dream of every good leader to have mentally resilient, healthy and satisfied employees. It is a challenge and an honor for us to open the big topic of mental health at eBF. For two days, in several thematic blocks, presented by the excellent rhetoricians Lucie Kleštincová and Marcela Turčanová, we will discuss, for example: