Meetings Are Back But Look Different
Pre-pandemic playbooks have been kicked out the door. Instead, today’s events embrace experience while focusing on connection, community, and content.
Meetings have returned, and many are now more of a conversation than a lecture. It’s all about face-to-face engagement and connection. Attendees expect to leave inspired and connected or will be reluctant to say yes to future gatherings.?
Challenges persist. Onsite staffing shortages, cost increases, and short lead times are a reality and impact catering and operations teams. However, with these changes come gatherings that are more fluid and flexible.?
Two years later than initially planned, MPI's European conference attracted around 300 participants to Brighton, UK. Over three days, meeting professionals discussed the need to build forward rather than build back.
Entries are now open for the first-ever Skift Meetings Awards, celebrating the business events industry’s most respected and innovative suppliers. Apply ASAP for the best entry rates.
Google Xi Days, which gathered an eclectic group of thinkers together to imagine the future of the events industry, engaged all five senses making it more compelling for all.
Matchmaking is invasive, hands-on is preferred, and size is not a success metric, according to the recent SISO CEO Summit. Event organizers are facing new realities disrupting the industry — and possibly improving it for all.
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1 年I am glad to see people meeting again face to face, but I am very concerned that with governmental activities this may become a short lived event! Sending hundred of thousand of people around the world may become a nightmare for companies trying to get contracts with governments flying the ESG flag! Thus ruining its ESG rating! As more and more conventions go virtual, or to the metaverse, the need for conventions and meeting space may diminish! The role of the “Personal Avatar” will increase and new modes of online private communications for meetings developed! Just a side note I told my niece “digital Artist” will be in high demand as AI can’t create the individuality people desire to set themselves up as a digital identity! The role of Skift meetings need to take a risk analysis and see how they can profit on the changing future!