??? Manual badging is out: Welcome to a new era of event check-ins
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??? Manual badging is out: Welcome to a new era of event check-ins

Baptism in fire for the run.event self-service check-in kiosks at ECS2024 in Germany

It was a big week for run.events: For the first time, we have used our self-service check-in kiosks on a scale, at a large event (co-located European Collaboration Summit and European Cloud Summit). The proclaimed goal was to check in 3000 attendees in 45 minutes, and I couldn’t be happier that it worked as a charm!

Average check-in time was 8 seconds per attendee.

Some key points to how it was done:

  • 12 self-service check-in kiosks, paired with 4 fallback staffed registration points. Fallback registration points were mainly empty.
  • Hardware: Microsoft Surface Pro 5 and Zebra ZD621 thermal printers with pre-printed fan-fold badge paper have been used.
  • Wired internet connection was present at all self-service check-in terminals, in order not to depend on the event’s wireless connection

There wasn’t a queue longer than 5 attendees waiting for registration at any point of time – self-service registration was a full success.

This marks an important next step for run.events, since we know that we can offer a superb event check-in experience to all our customers. Even better, with run.events it is now possible to have early/dislocated attendee check-in, such as at the arrival airports, major hotels around the venue, etc.

I am deeply thankful to ECS.EVENTS for doing this together with us, and I am beyond happy about all the feedback.

See you at the next event!

Adis Jugo , run.events CEO


Watch how we do check-in and badge printing in less than 8 seconds per person.

Self-service check-in kiosks for the win! ??

For us at run.events, the self-service check-in kiosks were the absolute highlight at ECS last week. This newly introduced way to let attendees check in and get their badges without any staff assistance, fully on their own, enabled over 3000 people to enter the event in about 8 seconds per person. Just think about the amount of mental relief for everyone. Not having to show up super early at the venue, no long queues and waiting times, no stressing over potentially missing out on the opening keynote, just a hassle-free event experience from the very first moment.

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Earlier this month, we did a poll on LinkedIn last week asking about your most effective ways to promote events. The majority answered "Organic social media" and "Email marketing & newsletters" (40% each), so here are some useful resources to utilize these channels with run.events.

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Leverage your social media audience to boost your ticket sales organically. How? It's SO EASY – prepare a graphic for your speakers, sponsors, or attendees (you can use our pre-made templates) and share the link with your audience. That's it. From there on it only takes two clicks, literally, for your followers to share the news about attending your event and invite their friends to join them with an optional discount code.

???Event communications

Emails are not the only way you can reach out to your audience via run.events. Next to email communication, we also offer push notifications, surveys and polls, in-app displays, and much more. The possibilities to gather feedback from your network, and ultimately use that feedback for your event's growth are enormous, trust us.


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