As the world design capital, Milan offers a lot of wonderful and well-designed places where the magic can take place.
Here you can find our top pick, plus a selection of very cool venues.
Europe's largest congress centre
Launched in 2002 and doubled in size in 2005, the current extension (2011) places MiCo - Milano Congressi among the largest conference facilities in Europe and worldwide. Designed by Mario Bellini, it's able to accommodate up to 18,000 people in 70 or so fully appointed conference rooms with permanent control booth.
Featuring two plenary rooms, one with seating for 4,000 and the other for 2,000 and an Auditorium that seats 1,500, it is the ideal venue for large-scale performances and for international conferences requiring a large number of rooms. In the same way, the exhibition halls offer 54,000 sq.m of exhibition space and can also be set up as extra plenary rooms accommodating more than 5,000 people.
The conference rooms feature the full range of technologies: video projector, sound system, translator booths, fixed video cameras, closed circuit TV, Wi-Fi internet access and optical fiber cables.
All of this in downtown Milan, with a parking lot for more than 1,100 cars, a heliport and direct access to Milan’s future subway line 5.
It’s all there. We can't wait to start our adventure there.
The plenary room
The plenary room can host up to 1800 attendees.
It's not a matter of space
We will also have the possibility to use three more rooms that can host 500 participants each.
We will have an Exhibition Area of around 3750sqm for catering, sponsors and partners.
For special dinners and events, we will use the panorama lounge. If we will need more space there is another whole wing of the building we will be able to use.
All the spaces are Wifi ready and we'll be able to choose from 500mbs to 1gbs velocity.
The second Super-option
Superstudio Più is a modern, polyfunctional and versatile multi-location, a huge space available to the city of Milan and to important international events – created to meet the needs of the most vital operators and creative people working in the overlapping fields of fashion, art, design, communication, culture and entertainment.
Wide, flexible, obscured or day-light spaces, which can be divided or combined, with heating and air-conditioning, perfectly suitable for great events, exhibitions, conventions, fairs, fashion shows, performances, dances, covering a total area of 10000 square meters.
The variously-sized spaces are also perfect as studios for furniture, car, advertisement photo-shooting, for cinema/television sets, for any use of wide and comfortable surfaces, easy to set up, to reach and accessible to trucks.
On demand, we can provide customized services including communication strategies, design, setting up, videos, lighting, sound system, organization, casting, hostess, production, security, catering etc. Central location, private parking area and subway MM Porta Genova stop close by.
- 10.000 m2 of exhibition space, in the heart of zona Tortona, Milan
- 10 independent halls that can be connected
- from 6 to 11 meters in height
- 1.200 m2 of garden
- wi-fi everywhere
- front desk open 24h and reception
- restaurant, bar and catering on its inside
- each hall can host from 10 up to 2.000 people
- indoor and outdoor parking
- all the halls are air-conditioned
- and in line with the regulations
- cloakroom for up to 1.000 people
- customized staging on demand
- staging for common spaces
- truss and lighting equipment rentals
- security room to guard jewels
- warehouse and store-room
- forklift trucks and transportations
- technical office and production management
- security, hostess and cleaning service on demand
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Event Space Porta Vittoria
This location, absolutely unique in its kind, is the perfect choice for organizing large-scale events destined to become unforgettable experiences for all participants. The magnificent Art Nouveau building, located in the Porta Vittoria area in Milan, was built in 1923 and was for a long time the largest ice rink in Europe and one of the first in the world.
Open space Mecenate
Gross surface area of 22,000 square meters with 15,000 square meters of covered and multi-purpose spaces that can accommodate events of any size from 50 to 2000 people or in multiple spaces the same event for a total of 9,000 people.
The Stella Polare
The "Stella Polare" convention centre, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, is a gem of design celebrated all over the world, whose interior features flexible, technologically advanced spaces.
The convention centre is located within one of Europe's largest exhibition centres and is connected to eight pavilions with a full 34,000 square metres free of columns, making it ideal for large exhibitions of congresses or mega-events, including plenary gatherings of up to 17,000 people.
Innovative forms, record size, total usability, highly advanced technological equipment: the utmost in spatial design.
Theatre in Cairoli
This is one of the most famous and ancient theatres in Italy and brings with it a historical and cultural tradition that few other institutions can match. Temple of music loved by the greatest composers of our tradition, but also a cultural and intellectual reference point for progressive Milan.
The city supports us
Eventing Milan will be happy to offer IxDA 2020:
Free City desk in the registration area during the Congress, to provide: city maps, guides of the city, information on the city, transport tickets, etc.
The city desk will also provide:
- booking services (for restaurants, taxi, shows etc);
- selling public transport passes (at lower price);
- Museum tickets;
- City sightseeing tour;
- other destinations within 1 day or overnight trips.
Local exposure will be offered through:
Welcome desk at Linate airport; welcome desk at Malpensa airport on the day prior the beginning of the Congress and on the first Congress day.
MiCo will also support IxDA 2020 helping obtain urban tickets for public means at special rates. Milan has arranged a customized ticket which can be used on both ground and underground lines, in the urban area, for unlimited number of journeys.