The conference will be held in the following sections

  1. Trends in marketing, business and tourism
  2. Innovative and sustainable approaches in business and management
  3. Financial management, accounting and using of quantitative methods in business environment
  4. Sustainability in the public sector
  5. Entrepreneurship and cooperation with the private sector as part of the life of municipalities
  6. Applications of AI in organizational settings and in higher education
  7. Digitization in project management
The section No.6 is supported by the Visegrad GranD project No. 22410207, Innovation of the education process towards implementing AI tools.



Conference outputs

Papers that successfully pass the peer review process will be published in the conference proceedings, or the journal Business Trends indexed in the ERIH+ database. The Conference Scientific Committee recommends submitting the conference proceedings for indexing in the WOS database. Papers written in English are preferred for publication in the conference proceedings. The Conference Scientific Committee will decide where the papers will be published. Authors may indicate the preferred location of the article (in the proceedings or the journal) when submitting the paper in the Editor's Comments window.

Aim of the conference

  • Presentation of the results of scientific and professional activities of the conference participants,
  • meetings and discussions of academic staff, Ph.D. students, and experts,
  • establishing contacts for research and publication activities and cooperation with practice.

Conference languages

English, Czech and Slovak


Conference venue



The conference will be held in conference rooms of the Pilsen Urquell brewery, U Prazdroje 7, 304 97 Plzeň.


Conference fee



Early Bird payment – received until 30th September 2024:
CZK 6 250 / EUR 250
CZK 5 000 / EUR 200 (for PhD students)*

Regular payment – received after 30th September 2024:
CZK 7 250 / EUR 290
CZK 6 000 / EUR 240 (for PhD students)*

*Ph.D. student as the participant is required to send the scanned copy of their valid confirmation of study to tvp@fek.zcu.cz before making the payment of the reduced student participation fee.

The fee includes:
The conference fee includes the possibility of presenting one paper at the conference Business Trends and the possibility of having the paper published in the journal/proceedings after the successful review process, conference promotion materials, conference journal/proceedings, refreshment, two lunches and one buffet-style social dinner in Pilsner Urquell brewery (21st November), accompanying program (the Pilsner Urquell brewery tour).
The participation fee does not include transport and accommodation.

Payment information:
The payment must be made separately for each participant (please, do not send the fee for more participants in the same payment).

Account number for domestic payments in CZK (within the Czech Republic): 4811530257/0100
International account number for payments in CZK (IBAN):
CZ8101000000004811530257
International account number for payments in EUR (IBAN):
CZ0401000000004845500267
Variable symbol: 514001
Specific symbol: will be assigned once an abstract is accepted
Bank: KB, a.s. Na Příkopě 969/33, 11407 Praha 1, Czech Republic
SWIFT: KOMBCZPPxxx
Organization address/Account owner´s address: University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Univerzitní 8, 306 14 Plzeň, Czech Republic
Remittance information for the payee: please indicate your surname

The participation fee does not include the bank charges associated with the bank transfer. In case of cancellation, the participation fee is non-refundable.
Please send the payment confirmation to tvp@fek.zcu.cz until 11th November 2024.


Deadlines



Registration (authors) deadline1st June to 2nd October 2024
Abstract submission deadline2th September 2024
Paper submission deadline16th September 2024
Registration (without paper, co-authors) deadline30th September 2024
Payment of conference fee – Early bird 30th September 2024
Payment of conference fee – Standard payment 31st October 2024
Conference21th – 22th November 2024


The conference is organized within the project SVK1-2024-014 Business Trends 2024.


Contact

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
Faculty of Economics
Univerzitní 22
306 14 Plzeň

Conference contact e-mail: tvp@fek.zcu.cz