World Protocol Matters Conferences

The core team of the Annual World Protocol Matters Conferences represented by
the founder of World Protocol Matters Conferences Inc., World Protocol School Ltd., World Protocol Magazine Inc. and President of the Association of International Protocol Professionals (OIPP), Nikoletta Hossó Ph.D.;
the Director of International Centre for Protocol and Diplomacy – ICPD London, Founding President of the Association of Certified Protocol Professionals in Nigeria, Patricia Kenneth-Divine, and
the Vice President for Continuing Education at Protocol & Diplomacy International – Protocol Officers Association / PDI-POA, USA, former Protocol Director of U.S. Space Force / U.S. Department of Defence and also Founding CEO of Myers & Associates, LLC, LaDonna L. Myers together with
E. Saroja Sirisena, Fmr. Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Austria, Fmr. High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in the United Kingdom, Director Quest Consulting Strategic Advisory for Business and International Relations
are hereby delighted to announce the official venue of WPM2026: NGM DÜRER in Budapest, Ajtósi Dürer sor 21. (NGM is the abbreviation for Ministry for National Economy, the event will take place in a government building).

Now in our Fourth year, International Centre for Protocol and Diplomacy (ICPD), World Protocol Magazine and World Protocol Organisation (WPM, WPO), World Protocol School and Myers & Associates, LLC – have once again joined forces to bring together thought-leaders, intellectuals, skilled professionals, and enthusiasts like you, to exchange views, leverage our collective knowledge and experiences, and to exam the effects of Protocol and Diplomacy in the world today and beyond.

It is our esteemed honour to invite your participation during the 4th Annual, World Protocol Matters Conference — “Protocol as a Soft Power; A Tool to Support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals,” on 9-10 May 2025

The organisers of WPM 2022 / 2023 once again convene the best protocol and diplomacy experts all around the world for a gap-filling professional online event called the World Protocol Matters 2024 to be held on 10-11 May, 2024.

Dr. Nikoletta Hossó, the brainchild of the conference series and the initiator of 11 May, World Protocol Day, together with ICPD Director, the Honorable Patricia Kenneth-Divine and LaDonna L. Myers, CEO of Myers LLL are hosting a global event to highlight and explain the essential role of protocol in international relations and the urging need of acknowledging the members of the global protocol industry by calling for unity in order to declare 11 May as World Protocol Day.

Continuing on the success of “ WPM2022” organising partners International Centre for Protocol and Diplomacy (ICPD),World Protocol Magazine and World Protocol Organisation (WPM, WPO) and Myers & Associates, LLC – will collaborate to bring together thought-leaders, influencers, intellectuals and skilled professionals to share lessons learned, leverage our collective knowledge and experiences ,explore methods to bring about the need of a Protocol curriculum to the forefront.

Over the course of three-days, hundreds of attendees from 45 countries, heard lectures from 32 speakers comprised of diplomats, scholars, practitioners, business professionals, and educators who stressed the importance of protocol in diplomatic relations as well as, the need to formalize protocol as a profession.