2nd Global GypSupply Conference & Exhibition on gypsum supply trends and technology
22-23 February 2023, Brussels, Belgium
1st Global GypSupply Conference & Exhibition on gypsum supply trends and technology
13 - 14 March 2018, Brussels, Belgium
Global Gypsum Conference and Exhibition
23rd Global Gypsum Conference, Exhibition & Awards
22 - 23 October 2025 - Amsterdam - NH Leeuwenhorst Hotel, Langelaan 3, 2211 XN Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands
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Nominations are open for the Global Gypsum Awards 2025 (to 1 September 2025)
The annual Global Gypsum Conference is well-known around the world as the largest meeting of gypsum professionals and as the must-attend gypsum event. The 23rd Global Gypsum Conference in 2025 will meet near Amsterdam and will appeal to gypsum and wallboard producers from around the globe.
The event will take place at the NH Leeuwenhorst Hotel in Noordwijkerhout, a town famed for its tulip-growing fields, situated about 5km from the coast, 25km from Schipol airport and 50km from downtown Amsterdam. The hotel and congress centre is one of the largest venues near Amsterdam, with 513 simple but elegant rooms, and is one of the few conference facilities with a large enough exhibition area for the Global Gypsum Conference, while offering delegates reasonably-priced accomodation. The venue was originally built as a seminary, and features a prominent church bell tower as a local landmark. There is a sports bar in the hotel basement, featuring a bowling alley. See details about the location of the hotel here.
Issues covered at the Global Gypsum Conference
- Gypsum wallboard and plaster market trends
- Cutting-edge research in gypsum and wallboard production
- Plaster technology
- New applications for gypsum
- Beyond commodity wallboard
- Energy efficiency
- Recycling, sustainability and the environment
Who should attend?
- Product manufacturers
- Equipment suppliers
- Researchers
- Academics
- Technology companies
- Plant managers
- Market analysts
- Shippers & traders
What did the delegates say about the conference in Bangkok in 2024
• It is an excellent opportunity to meet the industry experts in the gypsum market.
• This conference was excellent! The venue was beautiful, the staff here is excellent, the dinner was so fun.
• A fantastic event for keeping abreast of cutting edge innovations, and new and emerging technologies. An excellent opportunity to network, and catch up with colleagues, and dialogue across the industry. A fantastic platform to learn, grow, and develop individually and professionally.
• It's an amazing place to meet with the best experts and companies of the gypsum industry by having fun and building personal connections.
• Very nice organised with good number of players attending
• It’s very impressive, well organised and managed. By far the best conference I have attended compared to past conferences I joined in Glass, steel and Oil and Gas.
• Superbly organised.. best thing that got chance to introduce myself in front of wonderful audience
• It was great event with perfect balance of networking, lectures and exhibition venue
• I loved how open, communicative and truly interested in good exchange of experiences all the participants have been!
• It was amazing how good the networking worked out during this conference.
• Thank you for the great experience! The coordination of the presentation and the questions were really excellent
Registration opened in January 2025. Super Early registration at £645 ends on 28 February 2025. The Early Bird rate of £745 applies from 1 March 2025 until the end of 23 May, followed by the Standard rate of £845 from 24 May and the Final rate of £945 after 1 September 2025. Gypsum producers benefit from a £100 discount on these registration fees. Confirmed speakers register for £495, while confirmed gypsum-producer speakers register free. Registration fees do not include the conference dinner (at the Heineken Experience in Amsterdam), which is bookable separately during registration at a cost of £125. (Numbers for the Awards Dinner may be limited, and bookings are on a 'first-come, first-served' basis). A Spouse Tour Programme is also available.
Please note that fees quoted do not include any applicable additional taxes.
Note: The organisers reserve the right to alter future registration fees on an ongoing-basis, if required by currency movements or other unavoidable circumstances. Pre-existing bookings will not be affected.
SCAM WARNING
A company called EXHIBITION HOUSING MANAGEMENT (or similar) has called or emailed our delegates claiming they are handling our group's accommodation needs. THIS IS A SCAM please ignore their calls and emails. They have not been authorised by us and you can end up losing your money. ONLY use the link on the accommodation page to book your rooms at the conference hotel.
Above: Ladies of Gypsum 2024 in Bangkok
Above: A scene from the awards dinner at the Global Gypsum Conference 2024 in Bangkok.
Above: Delegates enjoying the Blues Brothers Awards night in Chicago in 2023...
Global Gypsum Conference - Presenters
23rd Global Gypsum Conference, Exhibition & Awards
22 - 23 October 2025 - Amsterdam - NH Leeuwenhorst Hotel, Noordwijkerhout
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Call for Papers
This is the Call for Papers for the 23rd Global Gypsum Conference and Exhibition.
The event will look at advances in manufacturing technology, market developments, networking and business, and is expected to attract delegates from around the world, including the following topics:
- Gypsum wallboard and plaster market trends
- Cutting-edge research in gypsum and wallboard production
- Plaster technology
- New applications for gypsum
- Beyond commodity wallboard
- Energy efficiency
- Recycling, sustainability and the environment
Prospective authors should email a proposed presentation title to the conference convenor, Dr Robert McCaffrey, as soon as possible to rob@propubs.com.
A note for prospective presenters: Presentation slots are not confirmed until the presentation has been explicitly agreed and confirmed with the conference convenor. Slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis: late-comers may be added to a waiting list at the discretion of the convenor. The programme order is decided by the convenor, giving due regard to the order in which presentations are received and the themes of the conference. You are advised to confirm your presentation title with the convenor as early as possible!
Instructions for Presenters
Presenters at Global Gypsum Conference should carefully note the following points and deadlines.
Main points: Confirmed authors should supply a 100-word biography and Powerpoint presentation to the convenor by 1 October at the latest!
Speakers MUST attend the speaker preparation suite between 16.00-20.00 on Tuesday 21 October, to ensure that their presentations are installed and working on the conference lap top. After 20.00 on 21 October it may not be possible to change presentations on the conference lap top. Don't leave it until you are just about to give your presentation to change the powerpoint - this is invariably a recipe for disaster!
General
All presenters should aim to speak for 20 minutes. Up to 10 minutes will be made available for Q&A. You will not be permitted to go over time.
Confirmed authors are included in the conference programme on the web site. Presenters are strongly encouraged to include new information in their presentations. Authors should use metric units throughout their presentations. Preferred units of wallboard production are Mm2/yr (millions of square metres per year). Advertising and commercial messages are strictly forbidden. Presenters may introduce their companies with a single slide. Give the delegates useful information - not advertising!
Powerpoint presentation format
All presenters must use a standard introductory 'slide', which will include the conference logo, the title of the presenter and the title of the presentation. This slide must also be used at the end of all presentations, while the question session is underway. Other 'slides' may take whatever form the presenters wish, but should include the conference logo in any of the four corners.
Download Powerpoint introduction and end slide
(if you have any problems downloading the slide, contact the organisers as soon as possible)
Download conference logo: (click & hold on the image below, then save the image - the image will need to be resized on your presentation slide).
Best Presentation Award
The conference questionnaire will include a section allowing delegates to vote for their favourite presentations at Global Gypsum Conference. A small prize will be awarded to the presenter of the 'best' presentation, at the informal reception at the end of the conference.
Optional written article
Presenters are requested to supply an optional written prose version (article) of their oral presentation, for inclusion in a future issue of Global Gypsum Magazine. The written prose version should not exceed 3000 words in length. The written prose version may be accompanied by tables, figures, diagrams and photographs. All material should be supplied by email to rob@propubs.com. The written prose version should be supplied in the form of an MSword text document, with embedded images. Any separate tables, figures, diagrams and photographs should be supplied in the form of TIF or JPG files, saved at 300dpi and 120mm width. All graphical material in the written version of the presentation must be accompanied by a full caption, and should clearly indicate its figure number/title.
Important note
Presenters that do not submit material by these deadlines risk being replaced in the conference programme, from the waiting list of presenters. Thank you for your cooperation!
We thank all presenters, in advance, for their hard work!
Tips for speakers
We’ve had the pleasure of sitting through literally thousands of presentations over the years. In that time, we have seen some really terrific presentations, where the audience was literally on the edge of its seat, and where listeners waited for every utterance as if their lives depended upon it. We have also heard a few presentations that were not so good. We thought we would take the opportunity to give a few hints to potential speakers...
What not to do...
• Don’t give an advertisement. The audience didn’t pay to come to the conference to listen to you trying to sell them something. They really hate this (we know, they tell us). Tell the audience something useful that they can take home. In fact, if you give them something useful and interesting, then the audience will forgive many other failings - but they won’t forgive you trying to sell them something for 25 minutes (and they won’t forget it either). Keep your company information to ONE slide.
• Don’t read from a script, even if you think you need to. One of the best presentations we ever saw started as a deadly-dull script-based talk. Half way through, the presenter lost his place and did the rest from memory - it was excellent (he went on to win the best presentation prize...).
• Don’t stand too close to the microphone: think of your listeners. You wouldn’t shout in their ears... and standing at at sensible distance from the mike also avoids ‘popping,’ where a pronounced ‘p’ can make an amplified booming sound.
• Don’t have too many slides: We once saw a presenter try to get through 125 slides in 25 minutes (that’s 12 second per slide). 25 slides should be your absolute maximum.
• Don’t try to be too clever. If you get lost in your own powerpoint, you will have lost your audience a long time ago.
• Don’t talk too fast, especially if you have a strong accent. This applies to native-English speakers as well!
• Never ask for questions in the middle or at the end: Questions in the midele break up the flow of your talk. Even if you have given a good talk and you ask for questions at the end, you will inevitably be confronted by an embarrassing silence. At the end, simply say “Thank you very much.” There will be applause: Then the chairman will ask for questions. Simple.
• Don’t try to get too much information across: If you can only get the audience to take home three pieces of information (which might still be asking too much) consider which three are most important (to you*)...
• That thing about ‘tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you’ve told them’? Don’t bother. Please just spend your time telling us your interesting story - we don't need to be told it three times. Also, you might need to know the underlying structure of your talk, but we probably do not.
What to do...
• Follow the instructions for authors - supply all the materials and hit all the deadlines (the conference convenor/moderator is your friend... don’t rile him!)
• When you get to the conference, check to make sure that your presentation runs as you expect it to (including any movies).
• Familiarise yourself with the lecturn/computer/microphone/laser pointer etc well before your alloted presentation time. On the day, don’t blame anyone else if you didn’t do your homework!
• Tell a story. All good presentations have a start, a middle and an end. Often it might be ‘We had a problem, this is what we did to fix it and this is how it all turned out.’ Or it might be ‘The industry is in this situation, we’ve invented machine X, this is how it can benefit you.’ Or 'This is the way the industry was, these are the current trends and this is what the industry will look like in X years.' A good talk needs a structure. Take the audience on a journey - tell us a story.
• Use pictures or video to help tell your story (but make sure that you have supplied your video in a format that can be used by the conference computers).
• Think about your audience at all times: What will make them listen to you and take on board what you are telling them?
• Content is king: *Think about what the audience will find most useful as a take-home as well.
• Make all slides readable from the back: I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard “You might not be able to read this, but...” If in doubt, leave it out. Better still, make graphs or infographics out of your tables of numbers. Tables of numbers in a presentation are a waste of space and a wasted opportunity.
• Open your mouth to let the words come out. Use your voice carefully: not too high or too low, not too fast or too slow: speak carefully and be aware as well of the power of silence.
• Use body language if required: connect with your audience (for example by trying to look into the eyes of every one of your listeners at least once during the presentation). Wandering about will distract your audience from your message. Never walk down the central aisle to speak from behind the front-most members of the audience - it is creepy!
• Smile: the audience wants you to succeed!
If you follow our tips, you will be in with a chance of winning the ‘Best Presentation Award.’
Good luck!
Global Gypsum Conference - Past
22nd Global Gypsum Conference, Exhibition & Awards 2024
13 - 14 November 2024, Bangkok
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21st Global Gypsum Confence & Exhibition 2023
9 - 10 November 2023, Chicago, US
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20th Global Gypsum Confence & Exhibition 2022
2 - 3 November 2022, Lisbon, Portugal
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19th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2019
23 - 24 October 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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18th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2018
22 - 23 October 2018, Vancouver, Canada
The event attracted around 300 delegates.
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17th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2017
25 - 26 October 2017, Kraków, Poland
The event attracted around 300 delegates from 41 countries.
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16th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2016
25 - 26 October 2016, Bangkok, Thailand
The event attracted around 300 delegates from 40 countries.
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15th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2015
26 - 27 October 2015, New Orleans, USA
The event attracted around 315 delegates from 34 countries.
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14th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2014
29 - 30 September 2014, Berlin, Germany
The event attracted around 380 delegates from 41 countries.
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13th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2013
21 - 22 October 2013, Toronto, Canada
The event attracted around 270 delegates from 35 countries.
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12th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2012
16 - 17 October 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
Making the most of the recovery
The event attracted over 320 delegates from 35 countries, with a renewed focus on energy saving, new applications and on profitability.
A full review is now available
11th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2011
17 - 18 October 2011, Las Vegas, USA
To recovery and beyond
The event attracted nearly 290 delegates from 30 countries, despite the tough economic conditions in the US wallboard markets.
A full review is now available
10th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2010
25 - 26 October 2010, Paris, France
New developments in gypsum
The conference has smoothly and successfully taken place, with 350 delegates from 35 different countries enjoying 14 hours of networking, 36 exhibition stands, 20 presentations, many business opportunities and a few surprises.
A full review is now available
Conference, Exhibition and Awards for the global trading, marketing, production and processing technology of gypsum.
9th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2009
11 - 12 May 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The 9th Global Gypsum Conference has successfully taken place.
With the kind support of Sindusgesso, the Brazilian gypsum association
General information about Brazil (Word.doc)
8th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2008
12 - 13 May 20, Dubai, UAE
The conference - the largest international gathering of gypsum professionals yet staged, with 39 countries represented - was a huge success.
Global Gypsum Awards 2008
Organised in cooperation with the Arab Union for Cement and Building Materials (AUCBM)
Delegate comments 2008
'Everything was great'
Dalvin Green
'Perfect organisation - nice evening program'
Anon
'Good conference - enthusiastic and capable organisers'
Geoff Oldroyd
'A perfect blend of everything'
Alfred Brosig
'Great job!'
Jonathon O'Leary
'Nicely done.'
Rusty Thompson
'Great job!'
Mike Butts
'Thanks - See you in Rio!'
Meredith Ware
'On behalf of MADA Gypsum Company (MGC) I'd like to thank you very much for your wonderful work & perfect organization of the Gypsum Global Conference in Dubai.'
Bassam S. Samaan
7th Global Gypsum Conference & Exhibition 2007
15 - 16 May 2007,The Westin, Shanghai, China
Organised in conjunction with the Chinese Gypsum Association
Chinese Sponsoring Organisation/Co-organiser: China Building Materials Industry Association
Global Gypsum Awards 2007
A full review is now available
Delegate comments on Global Gypsum Conferences 1999 - 2007
'Certainly the most enjoyable and useful industry conference I've been to.'
'Easily the best place to make contacts in the world of gypsum'
'I'd like this event to happen every six months!'
'Great for making contacts and to hear about the latest innovations'
'Before we attended, we had no knowledge of gypsum: Now 30% of our revenue comes from this sector'
'I am pleased that such an event takes place - we deserve it!'
'Excellent!!'
"The best yet"
