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The whole household appliances industry in one place

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Kongres AGD (Home Appliance Congress) is the annual two-day meeting of household appliance manufacturers, their suppliers and business support institutions. We have organised it since 2018 with APPLiA Polska at Fabryka Grohmana in Łódź, and the last edition brought together more than 400 people.

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The evening part of Kongres AGD: a full room at round tables, a musical duo on stage under the glowing AGD Kongres logo

What Kongres AGD is

Poland is the largest manufacturer of household appliances in the European Union: 26 million units a year worth PLN 25 billion, and the Łódź region has more than 40 companies in the industry, half of them in the Zone. Kongres AGD brings that industry together once a year in one place.

We co-organise the congress with APPLiA Polska, the association of household appliance manufacturers that represents almost the whole market. Two days, two stages and four themes: Industry (robotisation and digitalisation of production), Green (sustainability and regulation), Smart (artificial intelligence and e-commerce) and Human (the labour market and talent). BSH, Samsung, LG, Amica, Beko Europe, MediaMarkt and Allegro are among those on stage. The congress is also where APPLiA’s annual report on the household appliance market has its premiere.

The second day closes with the Business Mixer AGD: rotating B2B tables where suppliers and startups introduce themselves to manufacturers in three minutes. At the last edition more than 100 companies met at 11 tables. The VIII Congress (21–22 May 2026) adopted an industry manifesto addressed to the President of the European Commission, and the inaugural session of the Sectoral Council for Competences in Automation and Robotics took place alongside it. Attendance has grown from 250 at the first edition to more than 400.

The audience of Kongres AGD seen from behind, a curved screen with market charts in front of them

What you gain

For a manufacturer, a supplier or a company around the household appliances industry, the congress is two days that replace several months of arranging meetings.

A speaker holding a folder in front of a large screen with the Kongres AGD, Zone and APPLiA logos

  • Manufacturers, component suppliers, retail chains, institutions and universities. In one building, for two days, with nobody in between.

  • The premiere of APPLiA’s household appliance market report, data on production and exports, regulatory forecasts. What the industry plans its next year around.

  • Three minutes of presentation at a manufacturer’s table, then everyone rotates. A format that produces a dozen or more conversations with decision-makers in one evening.

  • The congress takes place at Fabryka Grohmana, the Zone’s home. Investors from the Łódź region show the plants and the skills of an industry that employs more than 5,000 people here.

  • The partners of the Sectoral Council for Competences in Automation and Robotics signed their agreement at the congress, and a year later the council began its work. Conversations from the congress come back as Zone projects.

Kongres AGD in numbers

since 2018

  • 8editions
  • 400+participants at the last edition
  • 2days and two stages
  • 40+household appliance companies in the Łódź region
  • 5,000+people working in household appliances in the Zone

Frequently asked questions

  • Companies from the household appliances (AGD) industry and the businesses around it: manufacturers, suppliers of components and services, retail chains, institutions, universities and the media. You register through the congress website.

  • The congress takes place every year in May at Fabryka Grohmana in Łódź. We will announce the date of the IX edition on the congress website and in the Zone’s events.

  • The congress website publishes the terms of participation and registration, any fees included, for each edition.

  • It is a session of rotating B2B meetings on the second day of the congress. Suppliers and startups get three minutes each at a manufacturer’s table, and everyone moves on after every round.

  • The archive of the 2018–2025 editions, with agendas and recordings, is at archiwum.kongresagd.pl. We also publish coverage of the recent editions in the Zone’s news.

Want to speak, exhibit or become a partner? Write to us

The Zone’s team looks after the programme, the partners and the Business Mixer. Write and tell us what role you see for your company, and we will come back with a proposal.

Not sure who to call?

Call the hotline or go to the programme website.

The Zone’s hotline+48 42 208 06 00

Go to kongresagd.pl

Other Zone projects

The congress is one of the events we organise for the industry. See the council that grew out of it, and the projects for companies from the region.

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