ABOUT
Let´s cut the crap – It’s time for the hospitality industry to wake up. We need to get real about the environmental and social challenges we are facing right now. This is an invite to embrace new perspectives, different choices and better goals, to have a positive impact on the people we work with and on the world we want to live in.
Room for Change
Welcome to THE LOBBY! We bring the hospitality industry together to tackle key challenges affecting our planet and its people. How we do this is – by offering our members a room for change to evoke movement in the industry and beyond.
Power of People
THE LOBBY is a platform for game changers across industries who move forward, inspire and shape the new standards in hospitality. Tune in to hear top speakers talking from the heart, bringing challenging perspectives and a focus on real sustainable solutions that can be implemented within the industry.
Collective Mindset
At THE LOBBY, we develop long-term relationships in the hotel business. We work hand in hand with sponsors and partners that see the greatest challenge of our time as their opportunity. Your ideas, methods, and products are taking an active role in the program.
The most important hotel event in the Nordic countries
The next LOBBY event will take place on 23rd August 2022 in Copenhagen. Stay in touch with regular updates from our website to see how and what we´re doing.
This is not about problem-solving but creation.
This is not about blaming but collaboration.
This is not about perfection but action.
Together we commit to a sustainable and more human world – because we know it’s possible!
“No joke: best hotel conference we’ve ever attended. Great speakers, informal, genuine vibe and lovely organizers.”
Hans Meyer, Founder of Zoku and Former Founder of CitizenM
PROGRAMME
22nd August 6-11pm
Meet the Speaker Exclusive Networking EventLocation: VIPP Garage, Snorresgade 22, 2300 Copenhagen
Sponsor Workshop
During the Exclusive Networking Event, we host a workshop, where the sponsors discuss sustainability in future hotels. The specific subjects will be selected by The Lobby Friends who are expert decision-makers from the European Hotel Industry.The workshop will be documented and the conclusions handed out to all our guests.
We will be serving drinks and lovely food – and you will have plenty of time to meet new and old friends – networking your way through the evening.
23rd August 9.30-5pm
The Lobby Event (the Conference)Location: Villa Copenhagen, Tietgensgade 35-39, 1704 Copenhagen After party 7-11pmLocation: The Audo: Århusgade 130, 2150 Copenhagen
The Lobby Event (initial programme)
9.30 -10.00 Door opens – registration and coffee
10.00-10.25 Welcome by the Lobby moderators Dorte Bagge / Mads Arlien-Søborg
10.25-10.55 Catherine Dolton, Chief Sustainability Officer IHG
10.55-11.25 Reiulf Ramstad, Founder Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
11.25-11.40 Short break
11.40-12.10 Guillaume Brunet, Co-Founder Space10
12.10-12.40 Riklin Brothers, Atelier für Sonderaufgaben
12.40-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.05 Marco Lemmers, Conscious Hotels / Sandra Weinert, Guldsmeden Hotels (panel)
14.05-14.40 Serdar Kutucu, CEO Slow / Cédric Etienne, Founder Studio Corkinho (panel)
14.40-15.10 Coffee break
15.10-15.40 Werner Aisslinger, Founder and designer Studio Aisslinger
15.45-16.30 Sister-rock-trio, Velvet Volume
16.30-16.45 Conclusions and good-bye by the Lobby moderators Dorte Bagge / Mads Arlien-Søborg
“The Lobby has a line-up of speakers on a different level. Rich in ideas, thought-provoking suggestions, and inspirations”.
Jane Moyses, Director for Projects and FF&E Hilton Worldwide
WHERE TO STAY
THE LOBBY have chosen to collaborate with the following hotels to offer accommodation during the event.
Use the discount code for each hotel to save on your booking.
SPONSORS

FRIENDS
Meet our friends.
Friends listen, learn, share and help each other, without any commitments nor hidden agendas. Our Lobby friends help us share our thoughts and they help develop The Lobby event to both meet your expectations and to surprise you at the event with new ideas on how to create a change – a change making the hospitality industry more sustainable. More vibrant. More interesting.
Our friends all represent cool brands like: Union Kul, Nordkranen, AM-PM, A Studio Between, Hilton, Zoku, Embassies of Good Living, Conran and Partners, Cibola Holding, MisterSteel, Studio LOST, Concrete Amsterdam, Stylt Trampoli, HC Tomorrow, Stockholm Creative Edition, Under One Sky, Studio Aisslinger, Riklin Brothers

SPEAKERS
More 2022 speakers will soon be announced.
“A good thing about The Lobby is that it is not too big. We need to be a group of people with different mindsets who can share ideas and experiences”.
Ilse Crawford, Founder StudioIlse
CONTENT
Image Gallery
Video Gallery
The Lobby 2021 - Ilse Crawford
The Lobby 2021 - Suzanne Oxenaar
The Lobby 2021 - Jesper Godsk
The Lobby 2021 - Guy Heywood
The Lobby 2021 - Bjarke Ingels
The Lobby 2021 - Jane Moyses
The Lobby 2021 - Daniel Englender
The Lobby 2021 - Katrine Goldstein
The Lobby 2021 - Monika Losos
The Lobby 2021
Meet Our 2021 Speakers: Part 1 – Jan Elhøj & Morten Kirckhoff, ‘Zero Stars'
The Villa Session: Intro
The Villa Session: Part 1, The Building
The Villa Session: Part 2, The Local Community
The Villa Session: Part 3, Colours of Copenhagen
The Lobby 2019: Lionel Sussman, Marriott
The Lobby 2019: Space Copenhagen
The Lobby 2019: Holly Friend, Future Laboratory
The Lobby 2019: Richard McConkey; Universal Design Studio
The Lobby 2019: Intro
The Lobby 2019: Rikard Jaucis, Snøhetta
Podcasts
Episode 1: Mikkel Juel Iversen
Mikkel Juel Iversen
Founder Under One Sky
www.underonesky.cc