A congress is also the conversations that happen after the sessions. ELMO 2026 has two of them: a welcome cocktail on Thursday evening on the Grand-Place, and an Experience Dinner on Friday where you choose between two very different tables.
Welcome Cocktail — La Maison du Cygne
The congress opens on the Grand-Place, glass in hand, before a single slide is shown.
A Baroque guild house of 1698 on the Grand-Place, later the seat of the butchers’ corporation, and today one of the most beautiful rooms in Brussels.
Grand-Place 9
1000 Brussels
Bringing someone? Add your guest when you book your congress pass — the option appears at checkout.
Experience Dinner — 2 choices
Two dinners, the same evening, the same hours. Pick the table you want and book it below.
Atomium Restaurant
Dinner inside one of the Atomium’s spheres, 100 meters above Brussels, with the city turning below the windows.
You go up by lift into the top sphere of Belgium’s most recognizable building and eat Belgian cuisine where almost nobody gets to sit down. The view runs from the Heysel park to the whole skyline.
Place de l’Atomium 2
1020 Brussels
The restaurant sits inside the top sphere.
Chaga
A Belgian gastronomic experience, cooked in front of you on a lava stone counter.
A very small room — first booked, first served.
Chef Kevin Lejeune works the open kitchen on the top floor of Faubourg 21, turning Belgian produce into a tasting menu you watch being made. The kind of table people book weeks ahead.
Avenue Marnix 21
1000 Brussels
How to join
The Thursday welcome cocktail at La Maison du Cygne is free for contributors and participants — we just need to know you are coming, so we can give the venue a head count. Confirm your place here. An accompanying guest is 100 €. The Friday Experience Dinner is booked separately: 100 € at the Atomium restaurant, 150 € at Chaga.
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