In 2019, ICT Spring brought together 4,000 to 5,000 people from a wide range of technology verticals. The covid-19 pandemic and the crisis have come and gone, as have new habits. Photo: Edouard Olszewski / Maison Moderne / archives

In 2019, ICT Spring brought together 4,000 to 5,000 people from a wide range of technology verticals. The covid-19 pandemic and the crisis have come and gone, as have new habits. Photo: Edouard Olszewski / Maison Moderne / archives

Five years after taking over part of Farvest from Fabien Amoretti and three years after taking full control, Docler Holding has decided to wind up Farvest, which organises the tech conference ICT Spring. According to Docler Media, the covid crisis did not allow the company “to sustain its activities.”

ICT Spring, which has been Luxembourg’s biggest tech conference since the early 2010s, may have been held for the last time on 29 and 30 June 2023. Given the context of recent years and the aftermath of the covid pandemic, Docler Media, one of the entities of the Docler group and its sole shareholder, has decided to liquidate and cease operations of Farvest, the company organising the show.

This is perhaps because the group is currently examining “a proposal to acquire” the event, “with the aim of perpetuating its influence in Luxembourg and the Greater Region.” The possibility of ICT Spring being taken over by the Chamber of Commerce disappeared on Monday 2 October when the chamber denied any negotiations.

Appointed in February 2021, the two co-directors, Charlotte Bouletier and Margaux Vetzel, were dismissed on 18 September, according to a document filed with Luxembourg’s business register.

A spokesperson for the group assured Delano’s sister publication Paperjam that all measures will be taken to meet Farvest's commitments to customers, suppliers and, above all, employees. All events have been cancelled for the end of the year and 2024.

Launched in 2000, Farvest enjoyed considerable success under Fabien Amoretti and . Amoretti sold his shares in 2018 and Amroune sold his shares in 2018 and 2021.

This article was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.

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