Organisers and host authorities
Strategy, PMO, participant support frameworks, delivery oversight and readiness for the organiser's own programme.
Strategy and PMOExpo experience, on the client's side.
Strategy, PMO and project management consultancy for World Expos and major events — from the participation decision to handback.
Worked onPreparing
An Expo runs on a fixed date, in public, through hundreds of decisions. Sulave gives commissioners, organisers and event owners a senior team that has been through that cycle at five Expos since 2010 — strategy, programme and project management, on the client's side.
5 Expos since 20103 in preparation10 pavilions6 major international events
What we do
We lead the strategy, the programme and the project. Where specialist firms deliver, we advise the client and coordinate delivery against what was agreed.
Featured project
Brazil Pavilion
A living environment in five acts: inflatable sculptures that breathe, driven by a kinetic system engineered as a prototype — synchronised with light, sound and video across four spaces, and run every day for six months.
- 110motors in the kinetic ceiling and floor
- 3,000+programmed show-control cues
- 6months of daily operation
- Expo
- World Expo 2025 Osaka
- Area
- 1,000 m²
- Scope
- Delivery, kinetic show control and AV integration, six-month operation
Photo: project archive
On the client's side, from the first decision to handback.
Designers, contractors and operators deliver. Sulave works for the client: setting the direction, running the programme and coordinating every party against one plan. Independent of the supply chain.
- 01
Strategy
Case, budget, procurement route
- 02
Programme
PMO, schedule, governance
- 03
Design
Architecture, exhibition, content
- 04
Build
Permits, construction, fit-out
- 05
Operate
Staff, visitors, events
- 06
Hand back
Dismantling, reuse, close-out
Strategy and PMO
Project management consultancy
Advisory: procurement and supply chain
Advisory: operations, workforce, events
Who we work for
Organisers, participants and event owners.
Participating countries
The participation decision, the budget and the commissioner's office — then a client-side project manager through build, six months of operation and handback.
Project management consultancyGovernments and event owners
Ceremonies, summits and public events: strategy, programme control and producer oversight.
Events and protocolCorporate participants and sponsors
Participation strategy, procurement and supplier coordination for companies taking part in an Expo.
Procurement and supply chainSelected work
Pavilions Sulave's executives led or managed in previous roles.
Chile Pavilion
Angola Pavilion
El Salvador Pavilion
South Africa Pavilion
Venezuela Pavilion
Photos: project archive
The next Expos
Two Expos in 2027, each with its own format and calendar.
Specialised Expo
Expo 2027 Belgrade
- Dates
- 15 May – 15 Aug 2027
- Theme
- Play for Humanity: Sport and Music for All
Three months of operation, with standardised and self-built pavilions on a compressed delivery schedule.
Strategy and PMO
International Horticultural Expo
GREEN×EXPO 2027 Yokohama
- Dates
- 19 Mar – 26 Sep 2027
- Theme
- Scenery of the Future for Happiness
Six months of gardens, landscape and outdoor exhibits, with planting lead times built into the design programme.
Strategy and PMOOne decision or the whole programme.
Tell us about your programme — where, when and what stage it is at — and we will come back to you on how we can support it.
Start the conversation