Events

Upcoming BDA events

15/10/2026

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘Soft Power at the Checkout: Influencing Sustainable Consumer Behaviour’

This lecture examines sustainable consumer behavior through the lens of soft power, highlighting how marketing and behavioral strategies can influence everyday choices in support of sustainability objectives. It connects consumer decision-making to diplomacy and international business by showing how markets play a key role in translating policy ambitions into daily practices. While diplomacy and regulation …

Past BDA events

18/06/2026

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘The International Rules-Based Order and the Sea’
17/09/2026

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘Financial Diplomacy in a Fragmenting World: New Tools for Global Stability’
18/12/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY SKILLS ENHANCING LECTURE: ‘International Sales Techniques’
21/05/2026

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘The Civil Responsibility of Foreign States in Action’
23/04/2026

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘Geopolitical changes and its consequences for Europe’
12/03/2026

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘Soft Diplomacy – Implementation and Necessity of using Soft Diplomacy instead of Hard Diplomacy’
12/02/2026

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘Cognitive AI Meets Quantum Resilience: A Deep Tech Vision for Future Governance’
22/01/2026

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘Managing Cross-Cultural Risk in Global Investment Decisions’
13/11/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS LECTURE: ‘Diplomatic Law’
04/11/2025 - 04/11/2025

Brussels Maritime Talks: Labour at Sea
04/11/2025 - 04/11/2025

BMT Registration
16/10/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS LUNCHEON: ‘EU-Asia SciTech Diplomacy. An analysis for Future Collaboration’
18/09/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS LECTURE: ‘Foresight and how we identify New Trends in the Security Environment’
12/06/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS LUNCHEON: How one should deal with Trump 2.0 (it’s all about ‘yield’)
15/05/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY SKILLS ENHANCING LECTURE: ‘Crisis Communication’
17/04/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS LUNCHEON: ‘Economic Security – A Business Perspective’
13/03/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS LUNCHEON: ‘Humanitarian Diplomacy’
13/02/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS LUNCHEON: ‘Language and soft power-Russian language in the CIS countries, and the Belgian model for peaceableness’
30/01/2025

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS LUNCHEON: ‘Science Diplomacy’
12/12/2024

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘Business Strategy’
14/11/2024

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘The Essence and Importance of Financial Diplomacy’
08/11/2024

A Second United Nations Charter: Modernizing the UN for a New Generation
12/09/2024

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ”Intersections between Development Communication, Diplomacy and Law’
13/06/2024

BDA HOUSE OF DIPLOMACY LECTURE: ‘The New Age of Crypto’
16/05/2024 - 16/05/2024

BDA House of Diplomacy Lecture: ‘How Economics Became the Problem’
18/04/2024 - 18/04/2024

BDA House of Diplomacy Lecture: ‘Energy Transition Diplomacy’
09/07/2024

GREAT POWER RIVALRY AND CRISIS
04/07/2024

Confronting the Landmine Challenge
14/03/2024 - 14/03/2024

BDA House of Diplomacy Lecture: ‘Nation Brand Building’
17/10/2024
30/04/2024
15/02/2024 - 15/02/2024
06/06/2024 - 06/06/2024
11/12/2023 - 11/12/2023

Launch of the House of Diplomacy
23/10/2023 - 25/10/2023

Energy Transition Diplomacy – it’s everyone’s business!
20/04/2023 - 20/04/2023

Energy Transition Diplomacy in the time of war in Ukraine
12/03/2023 - 12/03/2023

BDA at VUB Open Day
07/03/2023 - 07/03/2023

War and Peace – Thematic Lunch
07/12/2022 - 07/12/2022

What is Diplomacy for?
30/11/2022 - 30/11/2022

Business Roundtable Trade & Investment in India
01/12/2022

War and Peace – Thematic Lunch
13/09/2022

Ambassador Lunch with the Ambassador of Morocco to Belgium
16/05/2022 - 16/05/2022

War in Europe: Sanctions and Financial Architecture
26/04/2022 - 26/04/2022

War in Europe – Sanctions and Effects
13/09/2021 - 13/09/2021

Webinar: THE ROAD TO COP26. THE VIEW FROM INDIA: BUILDING A CLIMATE RESILIENT ECONOMY.
11/05/2021

Celebrating India@75 – India: A Global Actor in the Geopolitical Arena
15/04/2021

Breakeven Oil Prices, Fiscal Deficits and Shifts in Foreign Policy – Crisis induced change in oil producing countries
11/03/2021

Webinar: Cultural Diplomacy in Turbulent Times
15/05/2025 - 15/05/2025

Info Session: Diplomacy and International Business Courses at the BDA