Networking events

Pre-Conference Dinner

May 14 (Wednesday), 2025
The Museum of Ethnography

We are happy to confirm that this year’s pre-conference dinner will take place in the new home of the Museum of Ethnography. The spectacular building with its design evoking a pair of nearly embracing hillsides is distinguished by its unique facade decoration of almost half a million pixels presenting a contemporary adaptation of twenty Hungarian and twenty international ethnographic motifs, as well as by its more than seven-thousand-square-metre roof garden from the highest point of which a stunning panorama opens up.

One of the most prestigious competitions of the international property business, the International Property Awards in London, the Museum of Ethnography was selected in 2018 as the world’s best public architecture based on its architectural design alone, and it was also recognised with the Best Architecture main prize.”

Be our guest for the pre-conference dinner, enjoy the unique panorama and warm up for the conference with your peers!

(The pre-conference dinner is included in the ‘memoQfest 2025 Conference Package’)

Gala dinner

May 15 (Thursday), 2025
Vigadó
We at memoQ do our best to find new and unique venues for the pre-conference and gala dinners, but since we organized networking events at more than 50 places over the last 15 years, this task is getting harder and harder every year. The Pesti Vigado is one of the brightest pearls of Budapest and served as the venue of last year’s gala dinner. Since it was appreciated as one of the most stunning buildings in the history of memoQfests, we have decided to organize the gala dinner in the Pesti Vigado again (which is just a few steps from the Marriott). We are looking forward to meeting you there!