The International Council of Shopped Centers (ICSC) has announced Berlin will be the venue for its 2012 European Conference. The event will take place on 18-20 April at the Intercontinental Hotel in the German capital.

Planning is already underway and the conference planning committee, headed by Patrick Delcol, Country Head of Poland for DTZ real estate consultancy, includes retailer Douglas, MAB Development, SES Spar European Shopping Centres and Knight Frank. The title of the 2012 conference is 'Is Big Beautiful?'

The 2012 programme will include ICSC's CEO panel, where bosses from the industry’s biggest businesses go head to head on trending topics. This year the CEOs from Unibail Rodamco, Hammersons, Atrium, MFI Management and Carrefour took part. In 2010 the panel included Multi Development and Trigranit.

A new format for retail participation will also be announced later this year.

For more information on the ICSC European Conference 2012 visit www.icsc.rg/2012EU