The events industry has always witnessed an exponential growth yearly, as more and more companies want to have events to bring their people, their community together. This industry is all about people and strengthening human bonds. However, due to the pandemic, the sector witnessed a huge downfall, which led to the rise of hybrid events.
We recently witnessed BestCities Global Alliance Forum 2020 with their partners, BestCities Global Alliance and Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and GEVME which was held virtually and broadcasted internationally from the GEVME Live platform.
Hybrid Events have slowly begun to gain hype after the event industry faced a huge downfall. The event managers were forced to think out of the box and come up with creative ideas with the resources at hand and make the best use. The technology industry development proved to be so much more beneficial and crucial in today’s times. While the industries did come to a standstill, technologies still made it possible for businesses and employees to keep moving forward.
In the fifth episode of GEVME’s Digital Event Series, we went hybrid. This episode was organised in a truly hybrid sense, which means the event was hosted in a hybrid venue, with a hybrid panel of speakers curated for our hybrid audience.
As the industry prepares to come back stronger than ever, there is a need to rethink event formats in a post-COVID world. The recent pivot towards virtual events is certainly a good stopgap, but undeniable are the merits of the good old, physical conferences, meetings and exhibitions. This is why hybrid events are the future.
Due to the current pandemic, the demand for having hybrid events has increased exponentially. Hybrid events are now slowly gaining the hype as more people are becoming aware of it. And why shouldn’t it? While it is not feasible to host an event for hundreds of people at one location now due to the pandemic, hybrid events now come to an organization’s rescue. It has so many advantages to add to those involved in an event; the organizers can collect valuable data from its attendees in one place; gathering information manually would require a lot of time and effort.
Are you thinking about how to increase audience engagement? You have come to the right place. With the way things are going today, event planners have no choice but to make the best out of their online events and the virtual event engagement tools that come along with them. However, to engage event attendees requires effort and creativity. It’s simply not that easy. Despite that, there are always ways to improve engagement on virtual events, and you can learn about it here.
COVID-19 has already changed the face of everything concerning social events and gatherings. While many companies resort to software like Zoom to have virtual conferences or meetings, how can one take an entire social group of thousands of people virtual, and how do you manage such an event? It is quite evident that the need for a better-skilled event organiser is required, but what does that role look like.
