At the “PR Impact Awards” Conference – Special Focus on Crisis Communication, Event Program Announced
2024-05-21
What is PR Impact Awards?
For the 13th time, “PR Impact Awards 2026” will bring together communication, marketing, and business professionals for discussions, presentations of the strongest projects of the year, and an awards ceremony.
This year’s theme is “Hate communication: emotions or facts?”.
Over the past year, communication has become more complex, sensitive, and faster than ever before. Topics are becoming more heated, reactions are growing stronger, and facts simply do not work without trust. How can we communicate in such an environment to ensure we are both heard and understood?
We will discuss this on June 5th at the new Marriott chain hotel, “AC Hotel Vilnius” (Vasario 16-osios St. 5, Vilnius).
The event will feature:
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A conference on the theme “Hate communication: emotions or facts?”;
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Presentations of the strongest projects of the year;
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An awards ceremony.
Preliminary Conference Programme
08:30
Welcome coffee
09:00
Conference opening and welcome remarks
09:15
Hate Campaigns in Hungary: How a Whole County Got PTSD (in English)
Krisztian Szabados, Public relations expert, social media specialist and political scientist
09:55
Presentation of the Lithuanian Communication Market Research Results
Ignas Zokas, CEO of Spinter Research
10:15
How transparent are the sources AI draws from? Testing chatbots’ resilience to disinformation
Jovita Tautkevičiūtė-Kalinauskienė, Project Manager at Debunk.org
10:35
Cockchafers in Parliament: How to Communicate When Someone Tries to Ban You
Povilas Klusaitis, Founder and CEO of Fantazijos
10:55
Study: We are becoming an angry and suspicious society
Romualda Stonkutė, komunikacijos agentūros „PR Service” vadovė, CEO of the communications agency PR Service
11:10
Coffee break
11:20
Who Wrote Gediminas’ Letters? A conversation with Prof. Dr. Alfredas Bumblauskas about who came up with the idea to write Gediminas’ letters and who actually wrote them.
11:50
You Can’t Be Everyone’s Favourite
Tomas Bartninkas, Advertising Strategist and Head of Strategy at creative agency TRUTH
12:10
Discussion. Is it possible to protect yourself when you’re under attack? Experiences from Lithuanian companies
12:40
Coffee break
13:10
Trust in the Media vs. Social Networks
Domantas Gailius, Partner and Head of Business Development at Inspired UM, Partner and Co-Founder of KOG Institute
13:30
Discussion. Media in 2030: Renaissance or Slow Death?
14:00
Conversation with the Top Communicators of the Year
Artūras Ketlerius, Discussion moderator
14:30
Lunch break
15:30
Project presentations
19:30
Awards ceremony
Dr. Lina Jakučionienė
Lecturer a member of the Master's Program Committee for International Communication Studies, Vilnius University
Vilūnė Kairienė
Data strategist , Media Analysis Company "Mediaskopas"
Tadas Valančius
Strategic communications specialist, consultant,
Aurelija Vernickaitė
Head of Strategic Communications and Marketing, Vilnius University
Marius Gurskas
Director of Communication, Lithuanian Government
Indrė Vareikytė
Communications professional,
Laura Tyrylytė
Head of Global Public Relations and Privacy Advocate, Nord Security
Raminta Stanaitytė-Česnulienė
Co-founder and Partner, Strategy and communications company "Insynergy4"
Ignas Zokas
Founder and head, sociologist, Market research company “Spinter tyrimai“
Renata Matkevičienė
Dean of the Faculty of Communication, Frofessor, Vilnius University (VU)
Giedrius Juozapavičius
SMP, marketing strategist, consultant,
Tautvydas Juzėnas
Head of Marketing, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Monika Salygė
Communication and employer branding strategist, Mediatech
Ieva Dauguvietytė-Daskevičienė
Head of Communications, Linas Agro
Alex Malouf
Marketing and communications professional,
Aleksandra Moorast
Partner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Strategic Consultant, Corpore Public Relations
Oana Dumitroiu
Senior Vice-President, Marketing and Communications, Affidea Group
Aive Hiiepuu
Partner and Managing Director, Marketing and PR Consultancy "PR Concept"
Susan Kelly
Communication leader, board member of the European Association of Communication Directors,
Nuno da Silva Jorge
Professor, researcher and strategist on Public Relations,
Andrew Hillier
Director and Principal Consultant, Executive Director at Ballinger Equine, Director at Ah!
Gunta Line
Director of Corporate Communication, AS Sadales Tīkls
Marina Blomniece
Head of corporate communications, Bosch Baltic
Roland Murof
Deputy Director of Strategic Communications, Estonian Ministry of Defence
Koichi Iwasawa
President and CEO, Key Message International Corporation
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