Technology has been changing the way people conduct business for decades, and all indicators suggest that the electronic and Internet tools that are made available to the general population will only increase in number and scope. The meeting industry has benefited from emerging technologies as industry-specific tools have emerged to make event management more efficient and less prone to human error.

But with all of the meeting-specific technology available these days, finding, investigating and selecting the tools that will best meet your specific event needs is simply daunting. That’s where we come in.

Investigation & Recommendations

Let us know what you’re trying to accomplish and we’ll investigate a range of options that meet your targeted needs. We will present your team with two to four options that we consider the most eligible and then, based on your feedback, narrow the choices down even further to the top one or two for final selection. Our recommendations will be based not only on intangible “user-friendly” parameters from a meeting manager or attendee perspective, but also based on the technical data perspective to ensure that all newly-introduced technologies are either already compatible with, or can be modified to be compatible with, your company’s existing systems.

In other words, in collaboration with your team, we will:

Areas of Expertise

Although we can assist you with all of your meeting technology needs, we are currently focusing on those that we believe are, or will be, in highest demand:

Virtual Meetings & Tradeshows: Involves all computer-simulated meeting environments, sometimes involving the creation of an “avatar” for each attendee and computer-generated renditions of an actual meeting space. Interactions take place in a simulated computer environment. This medium supports large numbers of participants. Second Life is the best known virtual meeting platform.

Remote Meetings: Pertains to meetings with participants who interact directly with one another in different locations via audio and / or visual technologies. This includes web conferencing (such as WebEx or Go To Meeting) and global video conferencing.

Pre-Event Networking: The options are many and overwhelming, ranging from social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to elaborate networking and forum tools embedded into online event registration software. What they all have in common is the ability to network before arriving at the meeting.

Onsite Networking: Once onsite, attendee networking needs transform from communication between individuals who deliberately seek one another out for deeper professional connections to interactions between people who meet for professional as well as social purposes – less formal networking where the formal meets the more spontaneous.

It’s our business to stay on top of, and continuously gain expertise in, the technologies that impact our industry. The level of knowledge and service that your team receives from us will be as deep in technologies not listed above as they are in those that are, so save your company countless hours of research and leave this work to us!