If you’ve started organizing a congress, you’ve probably run into the moment of choosing the event’s theme!
After all, strong congress themes are responsible for catching your attendees’ attention, summarizing the event’s purpose, and guiding the entire schedule.
Activities, branding, promotion — every area of your event will depend on an attractive theme.
We’ve already seen some themes that get results. So, how about learning and getting inspired with a list of strong themes for different types of congresses? Read on:
What is a congress?
A congress is a gathering of people with a shared interest, where a central topic is discussed. In this case, the topic is questioned, debated, and examined from different angles.
That’s why a congress is a large-scale event, with many speakers and different activities. It can be organized around various segments, such as an academic congress or even a religious congress.
However, no matter the segment, it’s necessary to choose the theme that best fits the congress’s purpose and field.
How to choose a strong theme for congresses?
Think about your event’s goals
First, your theme should be aligned with the overall goal of your congress.
- Think about why you’re organizing this event;
- What is this congress’s main purpose;
- What result you expect to see when it’s over.
For example, if you’re organizing a religious congress to help more people learn about your faith, the theme should be easy to understand and appealing to people outside the religion.
Choose the ideal theme for your audience
By now you’ve probably realized that knowing your audience is essential when defining your event’s theme, right? So:
- Build a profile for your audience, with age, gender, interests;
- Find out what their problems are and how your event can solve them;
- Get to know their interests and what would catch their attention at your event.
For this, you can look for inspiration in common themes for events in the field, in competing events, or in international references. See some examples:
Examples of strong themes for congresses
Themes for religious congresses
In religious congresses, goals and audiences can vary, and that will determine which theme is strongest for your congress. For example, congresses for young people may address the same subject as congresses for couples, but the central theme should be approached differently.
Some popular ideas are:
- Who is the Lord?;
- Women who inspire — congresses for women;
- Transformed to transform — youth congresses;
- Youth Encounter with Christ;
- Revive;
- I am a child (of God);
- Grounded on the Rock;
- Congresses for Christian musicians;
- Worship time;
- Spiritist congress.
Themes for health and medicine congresses
In the health field, themes can be more general or focus on specific areas and lines of research, like medicine, nursing, dentistry, biomedicine, and more.
In this case, remember: the more general your theme, the wider your audience. However, that’s not always the event’s goal — sometimes a more specific theme is exactly what you want, in order to discuss topics relevant to your field.
See some examples:
- Congress of academic practices in Medicine;
- Multidisciplinary teams in the ICU;
- Lung diseases (or congresses about specific diseases);
- South American or international congresses;
- HackMED or hackathons in the health field;
- Regional public health congress;
- Congress of health researchers.
Themes for congresses in general
Similar to health and medicine congresses, other types of academic congresses can also exist. Beyond those and religious congresses, congresses can also be corporate events.
In these cases, they’ll certainly take on quite different themes, but some common approaches can help you get inspired when thinking about your congress’s theme, such as:
- National congresses;
- Regional congresses;
- Faculty congresses;
- Academic congress;
- Student congresses.
How to organize a successful congress?
After getting inspired to choose a strong theme for your congress, you certainly still have a lot of ground to cover.
Organizing an event of this size still requires steps like choosing speakers, defining the schedule, creating a website, launching ticket sales, promoting the event, and much more.
It’s a good idea to use a checklist to track your activities before, during, and after the congress. This way, you’re less likely to leave something out.
You can also rely on guides and tutorials that will teach you every step for building a successful congress. That’s the case with Even3’s free congress organization e-book, created by our event specialists. Download it today!
