The International Ice Hockey federation is a massive organization with a larger number of tasks, event organization and well governing a sport that is played worldwide Because of this each year they have two congress sessions to take care of all business throughout the year. The second one will be held next week.
The peak of international hockey is the A-Pool world championships when it's not an Olympic year, for the Olympics even the NHL drops everything and all the stars are present. The World championships also pulls in the big names as well, because of this the actually world championship host country also hosts the a congress session every spring. For example this past May it was held in Prague during the world championships. Since the hockey world is always moving fast it is necessary to have a session every autumn as well, this year it will be in Dubrovnik September 24th-25th, but with the opening and closing events in reality it's the 23rd-26th.
There are a couple of sporting governing bodies that hold their yearly gatherings in exotic locations and the members return to the real world looking as if they were on vacation and not much was taken care of. This might be said of the IIHF in Dubrovnik but because of the dense program it will be hard for anyone to get a chance to take a dip in the water.
September 23
10:00-17:30-arrival, registration
19:00-22:00-opening
September 24
8:30-12:00-congress
13:30-14:15-youth olympics
14.15-15:00-world championships
15:00-15:30-U20 world championships
16:00-16:30-U18 world championships
16:30-17:00-Women's world championships
17:00-17:30-Women's U18 world championships
17:30-18:00 olympic qualification
September 25
8:30-9:00-workshop: ice surface management
9:00-9:30-workshop: event management
10:00-17:30-congress
September 26
Closing, departure
The Hungarian federation will be represented in Dubrovnik by Csaba Kovács, the president of the HIHF, Zoltán Kovács, the secretary general and Attila Nagy, team manager of the national team. Dr. Zsuzsanna Kolbenheyer will also be there as a member of the IIHF.
“At an event like this there will be about 100 delegates taking part” said Zoltán Kovács, “There is a number of IIHF events throughout the year. Now that the Olympic qualification has also started there is much more to do. Each host city has to give an update on where they are and will also have to update the other national that will be playing in that city about all the details. This covers, the game schedule, practice schedule, travel and food and all of the finer details as well. All the discussions will be taking place in 6-8 conference rooms”
The Hungarian contingency will have the opportunity to listen to the Russian presentation since they will be playing in the A-Pool at next year's world championships. This also me
There are other international issues that the Hungarian contingency will be advising in as well, Dr. Zsuzsanna Kolbenheyer will be a very busy lady, but Attila Nagy will not only be dealing with Hungary’s issues he will be coordinating the EIHC tournaments. The contingency will be there from start to finish as they also have to work out a new deal with the Romanian Ice Hockey Federation with regards to the MOL League. “The final scheduling for the EIHC is taken care of at this time,” said Attila Nagy “With regards to the national team we will listen to Russia’ presentation and we will receive all relevant information about the world championships. We also receive all the information for the U18 and U20 world championships at this time.”