Ron Kaufman is one of the world’s leading motivational keynote speakers on the topics of achieving service excellence, increasing customer satisfaction, retaining loyal customers, and building sustainable service cultures. Rated one of the “Top 25 Who’s Hot” speakers by Speaker magazine, Ron presents powerful insights and global best practices from working with clients in every industry and on every continent for more than thirty years. His energetic keynote speeches have inspired millions, frequently earning standing ovations from audiences of all ages. In 2018, GlobalGurus rated Ron the #1 customer service guru in the world. Ron travels worldwide to speak at company meetings, industry conferences, and association events throughout the year.

Ron is author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller, “Uplifting Service! The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues and Everyone Else You Meet” and 14 other books on service, business and inspiration. He is the founder of Uplifting Service, a global education and consulting company that enables leaders and organizations to build sustainable cultures that win the hearts and minds of customers, colleagues, and partners.

With a population of 732,688 within the administrative boundaries and of 2.3 million in its larger urban area, Frankfurt am Main is the fifth largest city in Germany. It is the center of Germany’s second largest metropolitan region, the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, and is a highly multi-cultural and multi-ethnic city, with over half of its inhabitants having migration backgrounds. In terms of architecture, Frankfurt is an eclectic mixture of modern and old buildings, particularly in the well-preserved 19th century streets and parks from neighborhoods like Bornheim, Nordend, Bockenheim and Sachsenhausen. Frankfurt is also home to some of the highest skyscrapers from Europe, including the headquarters of the Commerzbank and the tower of the Exhibition Center. It is a major center for commerce, finances, transports, business, tourism and culture, hosting the headquarters of large national and multinational institutions such as the Deutsche Bank, the DZ Bank, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, or the European Central Bank. Some of Germany’s most luxurious and wealthiest museums are located here, including the Städel Museum, the Schirn Kunsthalle, the Dialog Museum, the German Film Museum and the Liebieghaus. Each year, Frankfurt hosts more than 30 industrial expositions and fairs as well as the world’s largest shows from the automobile, music and publishing industries.

Frankfurt as a Conference Destination

Frankfurt is one of the world’s largest centers for international conventions, conferences, fairs and expos. It hosts the world’s largest automobile, literature and music fairs, such as the Frankfurt Motor Show, the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Frankfurt Music Fair. Other important conferences and events include: Shift CX, a major conference for marketers, sales persons and customer service representatives; the World Class Digital Communications and Customer Experience, an event targeting leaders and decision makers from the customer experience industry and customer focused digital transformation; and the IT Days and the Scheer Digital World Congress, two major information technology events.

Frankfurt Food Options for Conference Delegates

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Frankfurt Attractions for Convention Attendees

There are numerous highly rated tourist attractions that you can visit in Frankfurt. Here are some of the best ones: the Römerberg, Frankfurt’s old city center, containing a large number of historical buildings from the 14th and 15th centuries which have been renovated after World War II; the Museum District, home to various amazing museums, including the Städel Museum, an art gallery with an impressive collection of European Art dating back to the Middle Ages, and the Museum of World Cultures, one of the major ethnological museums in the world, home to over 65,000 artifacts from the Americas, Asia, and Africa; or St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, a breathtaking 95 meters tall Gothic cathedral built between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Conference Center Venues

Frankfurt, Germany has a large number of great conference centers and facilities, such as:

Congress Center Messe Frankfurt (Location: Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage)
Frankfurt Airport Center (Location: Hugo-Eckener-Ring)
Frankfurt Book Fair (Location: Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage)
Frankfurt Marriott Hotel (Location: Hamburger Allee)
Kap Europa Convention Center Messe Frankfurt (Location: Osloer Strasse)
Taunustor Conference-Center (Location: Taunustor Strasse)