The largest multidisciplinary forum in Europe

17 - 20 July, 2024
Dolní Vítkovice Ostrava

30 000+ visitors

200+ inspiring speakers

10+ thematic stages

New Speakers of the MELTINGPOT Forum 2024

The main topic of the Meltingpot forum remains Health, Longevity and Biohacking. The 2024 edition will also focus on mental health, relationships and intimacy. We will be exploring new developments in Technologies and AI, Sciences, Education and Personal Development, all of that complemented by Arts. We look forward to seeing you in July 2024!

Ridina Ahmedová (CZE)

Singer, Musician

Brain We Are (CZE)

Neuroscience Podcast

Petr Horký (CZE)

Filmmaker, Polar explorer, YouTuber

Do not miss Meltingpot 2024

Experience the speakers of the discussion forum meltingpot through their personal audio-visual messages. The project voices of meltingpot crosses the boundaries of time, location, and themes.

Voices of meltingpot 2O22

A magical place full of iron and mysterious alleys

A place where the past meets with creativity. This is where thoughts melt and combine.

Meltingpot Forum is part of the largest Czech multi-genre music festival Colours of Ostrava, which is attended by up to 50,000 spectators every year.

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"Democracy is like a body. It must be trained, it must be nourished, you must dedicate yourself to it, otherwise it will deteriorate."

Tuvia Tenenbom, writer and journalist

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"Sleep is not a credit card. You can't accumulate a debt of sleep and decide to pay it off one day. You'll never fully repay it, and the longer you carry that debt, the interest grows exponentially."

Matthew Walker, leading expert on sleep and author

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"A winner, to me, is a person who makes a contract with themselves and fulfills it."

Marián Jelínek, hockey trainer, coach, educator

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"The biggest problem in the Czech Republic is a shortage of qualified workforce. For our country to succeed, we need to open the market to hardworking and talented foreigners and actively bring them here."

Petr Fiala, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"When we don't know how to breathe correctly, we can look at babies or: they are not influenced by theories of breathing, so they do it naturally, that is, correctly."

Patrick McKeown, breathing expert and author

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"We should stop contributing to the growth of our body and, on the contrary, invest in the growth of the spirit. It's the same with Europe. We should nurture the spirit: education, culture, and understanding. True value lies in the spirit."

Tomáš Sedláček, economist, philosopher and author

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"Invest in your health while you still have it."

Jiří Dvořák, professor of neurology, campaigner of brain health and healthy lifestyle

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"If you are interested in architecture, you enjoy life in a city more. Every walk becomes an experience."

Vladimír 518, producer, rapper, illustrator, set designer

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"If we run away from the things that hold us back on the path to happiness, they will always catch up with us. We must confront them, touch them, understand them, and ultimately overcome them."

John Perkins, economist, author, international speaker and activist

Said at Meltingpot 2023

"We have only one planet, and for some time now, we have been conducting a truly dangerous experiment on it."

Mark Maslin, professor of earth system science

MELTINGPOT's 2023 PARTNERS

MAIN PARTNER

Česká spořitelna

PARTNERS

Luxor

Heimstaden

CEZ

PRUSA 3D

ProfiMed

Gilead

Slezská univerzita

PORG

Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

MUNI

IN COOPERATION WITH

Evropská unie

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

MK ČR

MS Kraj

British Embassy Prague

British Council

Dům zahraniční spolupráce

Vláda ČR

UN HCR

MAIN MEDIA PARTNER

MEDIA PARTNERS

Reflex

OTHERS

Investor service

Livingstone

Polska

The Meltingpot 2023 project is co-financed from the budget of the Moravian-Silesian Region and Ministry of Culture