11.-13.10.2019 | EWMD International Conference „Will my doctor be an app?“
In order to get around in Vienna, we recommend this free app (available for IOS and Android): WienMobil. This free app is also perfect to buy tickets, once you’re inside a bus or tram. In subway stations, train stations and at the airport you also find vending machines.
Friday
Guided Tour “Schönbrunn Palace – The Emperor’s Summer Residence”
Duration: ~ 60" - You walk for yourself with your Audioguide.
Beginning: 2 p.m. and 2.18 p.m.
Please be there in time. We have to enter all together, since we've got two group tickets.
Meeting Point: MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE PALACE, where the electronic entrance control is located. A Member of the Conference Organizational Team buys two group tickets for all of you and guides you through the entrance procedure. Audio Guides/Headsets are provided right after the entrance control.
Public Transport Stop next to the Location: Subway Station U4 “Schönbrunn“.
Hot to get there: If you come from the Conference Venue, "Parkhotel Schönbrunn", you may walk through the parc opposite the hotel. It will take you a 10” footwalk or 1 stop with subway line U4, direction “Heiligenstadt”, exit “Schönbrunn”.
Annual General Meeting of EWMD International
Beginning: 4 p.m.
Duration: 2 hours
Venue: Austriatrend Hotel “Parkhotel Schönbrunn”/ The Conference Venue
Public Transport Stop next to the Location: U4 ”Hietzing”
Annual General Meeting of EWMD Austria
Beginning: Immediately after the AGM of EWMD International has ended, which means about 6.00 p.m.
Duration: ½ hour
Venue: Austriatrend Hotel “Parkhotel Schönbrunn”/ The Conference Venue
Public Transport stop next to the Location: Subway Station U4 ”Hietzing”
Opening Night / Viennese Wine Tavern – Dinner, Live Music & Jodelling Workshop
Heurigen Food Buffet with Wine, Grape Juice & Water included
Arrival/Get together on the spot: 7.30 - 8.p.m.
Opening: 8.00 p.m.
Venue: Heuriger “Wiltschko”, Wittgensteinstraße 143, 1230 Wien
Public Transport Stop next to the Location: Bus Stop “Nästlbergergasse”.
How to get there: From the Conference Venue, it takes you 25 –30” drive by bus line 56 A + 2” footwalk up the hill. If you come by car, it is very easy to find parking places in front of the restaurant building.
Meeting Point to go there from the hotel: Bus Stop in front of U4 subway station “Hietzing”.
We will need about 2-3 sequent public transport busses to get all of us there. So it is important that some of you come to the bus stop at 06.50/ 07.00 p.m., in order to have the last group leaving around 7.15 p.m.
Bus tickets are not available inside the bus, since there are no vending machines inside the busses.The easiest way is to use the app "Wien Mobil" recommended above here or to buy a 1 day or 2 day pass for all public transport lines, when you arrive at the airport or at the main train station.
Bus rides back to the hotel: Bus line 56 B, every 30” e.g. 09.15 p.m., 09.45 p.m., 10.15 p.m., 10.45 p.m., 11.15 p.m.
Last bus back to the hotel: 11.50 p.m.
Saturday
Conference “Will my doctor be an app”
Programme: http://conference2019.ewmd.org
Beginning: 09 a.m.
Conference Venue: Austriatrendhotel “Parkhotel Schönbrunn”
Keynote Speeches & Panel Discussion: Rooms “Österreich + Ungarn”, "Kaiser Lounge" in front of the conference rooms
Experts’ Talks: 1. Room “Österreich”, 2. Room “Ungarn”, 3.+4. Lounge in front of the large Conference Room, 5.+6.: Bar and Garden
Lunch Break: 12.45 p.m. – 02 p.m.
End: 05 p.m.
Evening Gala, Award Ceremony, Dinner and Dance
Programme: http://conference2019.ewmd.org
Beginning: Get together / Aperitif: 7 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.
Official Opening: 7.30 p.m.
Award Ceremony: 08.15 – 08.35 p.m.
Anniversary Celebration*: 09.15 – 09.30 p.m.
*35 Years Anniversary of EWMD International & 25 Years Anniversary of EWMD Austria
Dance with DJ and Live Musicians: after 10 p.m.
End: Midnight
Sunday
Annual General Meeting of EWMD Germany
Beginning: 09:00
Duration: 1 hour
Venue: Austriatrend Hotel “Parkhotel Schönbrunn”/ The Conference Venue
Public Transport stop next to the Location: Subway Station U4 ”Hietzing”
Guided Tour 1: Classical Tour of the Inner City – 2 hours walk
Along the Emperor’s Palaces, Museums, Ring Circle Road (“Ringstraße”), Vienna State Opera, Heldenplatz, Graben, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Mozart’s House of Birth…
Please check, that you’ve got your headset with you – waiting for you at the hotel reception from Saturday early afternoon onwards.
Guide: Margret Wohlfarter will conduct the Tour in English Language.
Beginning: 11.00 a.m.
Contact phone number: 0043 / 676 76 18 990 Birgit Weber
Please call Birgit, in case you oversleep, get lost, become ill, cancel your reservation or took the wrong subway line... etc.
Meeting Point: In Front of/Main Entrance of the Vienna State Opera House, Kärntner Ring 1, 1010 Wien
Public Transport Stop next to the Location: Subway Station U1 /U2 /U4 “Karlsplatz”, Exit “Oper”.
How to get there: 20 – 45” walk to subway station plus subway ride, depending on where you come from. If you come from the Conference Venue Parkhotel Schönbrunn, it will take you 7 stops by subway line U4, direction “Heiligenstadt”, subway stop “Karlsplatz”. Take exit “Oper” there.
Guided Tour 2: “Seestadt Aspern” – smart and green – Europe’s Largest Public Housing Project
Information about the history of the Seestadt Project, a former airbase, guided walk through the high street and the already finalized area around the lake, background information about the smart energy concept, why it feels more urban than you might expect, future perspectives of the 15 years project
Please check, that you’ve got your headset with you – waiting for you at the hotel reception from Saturday late afternoon onwards!
Guide: Sepideh Mehrabanifard, Member of EWMD Vienna. She works as an architect and has planned a building there for the City Administration of Vienna.
Beginning: 11.00 a.m.
Contact phone number: 00 43 / 650 490 65 16 Birgitt Wodon-Lauböck
Please call Birgitt, in case you oversleep, get lost, become ill, cancel your reservation or took the wrong subway... etc.
Public Transport Stop next to the Location = Meeting Point: Subway Station “Seestadt” [Last stop of the subway line U2]. Once you arrive there by subway, go upstairs. Your guide waits for you outside the subway station.
Be aware, that you need to take a subway, which has indicated “Seestadt” as its final destination, since there are 2 final destinations of subway line U2. The 2nd one only goes to “Aspernstraße”, which is not our meeting point. If you take this one accidentally you would have to take an additional 15 –20” walk.
How to get there: Depending from where you come, it takes you 50 – 70” in total. If you come from the Conference Venue "Parkhotel Schönbrunn", it will take you 10 stops with subway line U4, direction “Heiligenstadt”. Exit “Schottenring”, there switch to subway line U2, direction “Seestadt” and go for another 14 stops to the final station “Seestadt”. On week-ends you have to calculate about 6 – 10” max. waiting time, in case you switch subway lines.
The conference is kindly sponsered by
