World Protocol Matters Conferences

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.