Give your guests a reason to be there. We create conferences, corporate events and customer gatherings around a strong idea, a considered programme and the production to bring it to life.
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Our work
A club becomes a world of its own. A stage opens up new ideas. An evening brings customers into conversation. Explore the decisions and production behind these projects.
An event we run ourselves
Bootshaus in Cologne becomes the setting for “Your Ticket to Hollywood”, an evening for the digital marketing community.
Concept and production
We create the event concept and bring together marketing, ticketing, sponsor activities and live production.
The theme gives the evening its own character. The setting makes room for celebrating and meeting people beyond the trade-fair stand.
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A startup stage and a programme for students at the same industrial trade fair, each with a different audience.
Concept and production
A five-day startup programme with pitches and awards. For the Your Future Stage, we curated topics and speakers and organised guided tours for students.
The stage programme and guided tours gave students different ways to explore industrial technologies and careers, alongside a platform for startups to present their ideas.
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Figma brings customers and colleagues together in Frankfurt for presentations, dinner and conversation.
Concept and production
Concept advice, project management, venue, catering and on-site coordination, with recordings of the stage conversations.
Recording the stage conversations gave Figma material to use in its communication after the evening.
Explore the project"The PIRATEx team supported us at our 1st Douglas Retail Media Summit. The concept, organisation and technical execution were excellent. The team communicates quickly and gave us great advice. The event was a great success and I can recommend PIRATEx without reservation."
Working with PIRATEx was extremely positive from the start. The team stood out through their professionalism, dedication and outstanding communication. The day PIRATEx organised didn't just meet our expectations. It exceeded them. Thank you! We look forward to many more events together!!
"With PIRATEx we had an agile partner at our side to execute an innovative hybrid event. We benefited enormously from their agility and solution-oriented approach on the ground. A key to the event's success was that PIRATEx worked with our crew as one big team, not as two separate parties."
Your occasion
A conference can open up a new perspective. An evening together can start a conversation that would never happen in the office. Based in Cologne, we design the format around your guests and give your idea a shape of its own.
What would suit your occasion and the people coming? We develop the central idea, choose the setting and shape the production around the experience you want your guests to share.
Explore event concepts and production →Questions worth asking, speakers with something to say and formats that invite your audience in. We develop the thread of your programme and give every session a reason to be there.
Explore Programme Design →Bring customers together around a question they care about. We design and facilitate a roundtable where they can compare experiences and hear different perspectives.
Explore Customer Roundtable →Tell us who you want to bring together and what you would like to do with them. You might have a first idea or just an occasion. Our first conversation is where we explore what it could become.
The programme, the people leading it and the chances to join the conversation all shape what your guests experience. Explore the formats and the work behind them.
Conferences, festivals and trade-fair appearances built around a strong idea. We develop programme and production together so the individual parts work as one event.
Dinners, customer roundtables, retreats and internal events. We shape the setting for personal conversations, shared experiences and time together.
Speakers and hosts for your programme. Pitch and presentation training for people who need to deliver a clear message with confidence.
The Event Academy, blog and planning resources help your own team work through audience, concept, programme and production decisions.
A strong event idea needs careful work behind it. Explore how we develop the concept, prepare the programme and bring the production to life.
Understand your audience and occasion, test ideas and choose a format that serves them.
Choose the right occasions for your audiences and connect formats, timings and budgets across the year.
Test ideas with experienced event professionals, sharpen your concept and work through the decisions ahead.
Develop a central idea and translate it into programme, space and staging, from the first arrival to the closing session.
Find people with relevant perspectives on your subject. Prepare speakers and hosts for the audience, the conversation and the stage.
Develop the thread of your event and connect the messages, contributions and pacing so your audience can follow the story.
Bring the venue, technology, catering and running order together. Prepare decisions, track budgets and lead delivery on site.
Design sound, lighting and staging around the room and programme, with technical planning and direction as part of your event production.
Create stage openers, event films and recordings, with filming and editing shaped by the occasion and how the material will be used.
Advice and planning for an in-house studio, from the technology to team training.
Prepare contributors, check media and run the live technical operation of Zoom, Teams and Webex events.
Design the stage programme and remote participation together, with live direction, streaming and contributions from elsewhere.
PIRATEx is part of the PIRATE group. Meet the other companies in the group, working in AI and automation, software development and lead generation.
Tell us about your guests, the occasion and the idea you keep coming back to. Based in Cologne, we develop the setting and programme around the experience you want to create.
Let’s talk →A stage programme can introduce a new idea. A customer dinner makes time for a longer conversation. Explore the fair you have in mind and the occasions we can create around it.
