Event Staging
Tech Day in the Life: Neil Kurtz
This is the first installment of a new series of "Day in the Life" articles featuring IMS team members and how they spend their day on the road supporting our clients. This is the recent "day in the life" of Neil Kurtz, Event Staging Technician.
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How to Create an Event Diagram on a Budget
When planning meetings and events, it is useful to have a diagram or floor plan. In some cases, venues or suppliers will provide a diagram, and there are great paid services like Social Tables that have a rich set of features. But if you’re on a budget and would still like the flexibility of creating a room diagram yourself, here is a comparison of some cost effective options.
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What are Beacons and Why Would I Want Them at My Event?
Beacons have been around for a few years now, but have started to pick up steam in terms of adoption over the past year. Why is this important? Two big reasons: The Attendee Experience and DATA.
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Seeing Your Meetings Through Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality has become “quite the craze” over the past year or so and I don’t expect the interest to decrease in the near future. It is unlike many other new technologies that have hit the market, such as 3D TV’s, etc. Technology companies have made Virtual Reality (VR) available to everyone, including those with limited budgets. This allows everyone to experience this immersive technology and experience the benefits of VR for themselves!
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How to Plan a Meaningful Experience, Not a Meeting
More than 220 million meetings are conducted in America each month. Because I’m an entrepreneur who’s providing the fastest-growing network of meetings and conference venues in the U.S., you would think I’d be doing cartwheels and flips over this opportunity.
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Outlook for 2017: AV and Technology
Jason Cataldi, CTS was interviewed for the "Outlook for 2017" article that appears in the January/February 2017 edition of Mid-Atlantic Events Magazine.
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Spending $5,600/week on meetings?
The truth: Your meetings are costing you… Say you have 10 employees making $70K/year. They are getting paid $35/hour. Put them all in a room for 1 hour and that meeting just cost you $350…BUT a survey conducted by Harris Poll found that U.S. employees spend about 40% of their time at work in meetings. Now you are spending about $5,600/week on those 10 employees going to meetings.
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IMS Supports Election Eve Rally in Philadelphia
The IMS team was proud to support a historic Election eve rally in Philadelphia that brought Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, a former President, the current President, the First Lady, a Presidential nominee together on one stage.
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4 Ways to Engage Attendees in Breakouts
If you’re looking for ways to spice up your breakout sessions by increasing engagement, and interactivity between attendees and course leaders, consider utilizing these technologies.
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