Are you using creative content to its fullest potential? You should be. Gone are the days of standing in front of a crowd with a simple slide presentation and expecting your audience to remain tuned in — that’s sort of like serving an unseasoned meal.It’s bland and forgettable. From industry award shows and product launches ...

S’il n’est un secret pour personne que la pandémie a tout bouleversé dans le secteur de l’événementiel, elle a également apporté quelques avantages inattendus en cours de route. Avant que COVID-19 ne devienne un titre quotidien, réfléchissez à ce qui rendait le secteur de l’événementiel unique dans l’esprit des étrangers : Les organisateurs d’événements ont ...

October 18, 2021 If you’re missing building professional connections face-to-face, you’re not alone. People everywhere are chomping at the bit to get back to business; and yet, variants of COVID-19 cast doubts on whether it’s safe to travel and meet in-person. Being fully vaccinated, especially if you’ve been “boosted”, and maintaining the good habits and ...

Have you ever managed a virtual conference from a hospital bed? It was a first for Heather Dow, senior manager at  Events & Management Plus, Inc.  When the potential to be sidelined by a life-threatening injury read out how our Encore Canada team helped her manage one of the biggest events of her career without ...

Mixed Reality is one of the latest technologies available for use in virtual and hybrid meetings to add excitement, engagement and interactivity. Below we take a look at this latest meeting trend and how you can maximize it to transform your next event into a memorable experience for your meeting presenters and participants.    What ...

The meeting and events industry clearly experienced a great deal of change over the course of the last 16 months. An industry filled with incredibly talented people who were singularly forced to be nimble and adaptable can now learn from each other to accelerate our industry’s exciting (re)start with the right event solutions. For Encore, ...

Top Trends and Insights for Planning Impactful Hybrid Events With 2021 thankfully in the rear-view window, the meeting and event industry is slowly recovering from the impact of COVID-19.   Planners and attendees alike are ready to get back to in-person events and optimism for a full recovery is growing.  In the meantime, demand for hybrid ...

How a Multi-National Professional Services Network Elevated their Attendee Engagement through Production Finding creative ways to engage attendees in a virtual setting has always been a challenge. Today, with virtual and hybrid meetings a new norm, and zoom fatigue on the rise, it has only become even more exacerbated. In late September, one organization was ...

Need help getting guests engaged at your next event? Here are six steps. What started as a quick pivot to virtual events in the early stages of the pandemic has now shifted to hybrid events, and it’s now expected that hybrid events will remain a common format long after the pandemic is behind us. An ...