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Past, Present, Pride — the annual Pride Business Forum conference

06/06/2025 | 09:00

Hilton Praha (Pobřežní 311/1, 186 00, Praha 8-Rohanský ostrov)

Join us for the 15th Pride Business Forum conference, featuring this year’s theme, Past, Present, Pride. It’s a chance to share ideas, find solutions to the challenges LGBTQ+ people face in the workplace, and promote positive change.

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Even though some claim that diversity and inclusion are to blame for plane crashes, data and research show that diversity actually improves the success of companies and organizations.

Even though some urge businesses to abandon diversity and inclusion, we have over 100 member companies and organizations that care about it.

For 15 years, we’ve been sharing reliable and useful information about diversity and inclusion—through our work and our annual conference.

This year’s theme, Past, Present, Pride, reflects that we will explore the developments of the past 15 years, map the current situation, and consider strategies for the future.

Experts from academia and business will focus their presentations and workshops on the skills the LGBTQ+ movement offers to the broader society — how to drive change, withstand attacks, and have the courage to be yourself while supporting others.

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More details about the program and speakers will be shared in the spring.

By registering for this event, you agree to be photographed. The photos will be used to promote Pride Business Forum activities. If you prefer not to be photographed, please let us know.

Event Details

Evan Davis

Presenter, BBC

Evan Davis hosts a one daily news programme on BBC Radio 4, called PM, but is also well-known as the presenter of the BBC2 business reality show Dragons Den. And on Radio 4, he hosts a weekly business discussion programme the Bottom Line.

In his long career at the BBC, he has presented other programmes, such as Today on Radio 4 and Newsnight on BBC 2. Between 2001 and 2008 he was the Economics Editor of the BBC, the most senior economics reporter in the corporation.

Before joining the BBC in 1993, he was an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and at the London Business School. He has written numerous papers, articles and newspaper and magazine columns as well as the book, Public Spending, (published by Penguin in 1998). He is also a co-author of the Penguin Dictionary of Economics and the New Penguin Dictionary of Business.

His latest book is called Post Truth: Why we have reached Peak Bullshit and what we can do about it which sets out to explain why there is so much mendacity and nonsense in public discourse and why it became more of a concern in 2016.

He studied at St John’s College Oxford (1981 to 1984) and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1986 to 1988).

Evan has won numerous awards. In 2017, he was the Television and Radio Industries club (TRIC) News presenter of the Year. In 2015, he was Attitude magazine’s Man of the Year.

Marie-Anne Valfort

Senior economist, OECD

Marie-Anne Valfort is a senior economist in the Social Policy and International Migration Divisions within the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. 

She leads the OECD’s work on LGBTIQ+ inclusion which addresses three main topics: (1) the life situation of LGBTIQ+ individuals (and the economic returns of improving it); (2) whether laws and policies critical to foster LGBTIQ+ inclusion are in place; and (3) the monitoring and impact evaluation of member countries’ strategies to achieve LGBTIQ+ equality, to ensure they engage in actions that are fully effective. 

She is also co-leading the OECD’s work on the inclusion of racial/ethnic minorities. Prior to joining the OECD, she was a Professor at the Paris School of Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique and a Master of Science in Management from HEC.

Date: 06/06/2025

Start time: 09:00

End time: 18:00

Venue: Hilton Praha (Pobřežní 311/1, 186 00, Praha 8-Rohanský ostrov)