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.
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.
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.
When searching for a new venue for your next meeting or event, it’s important to consider these 4 areas when making your decision:
Hybrid meetings offer an innovative way to engage your audience. Here is a compilation of comments from meeting professionals regarding the advantages of blending live meetings with virtual interaction from attendees who cannot attend the meeting in-person.
Apple's CEO tells ABC News that augmented reality allows people to be more "present" than virtual reality.
Do you want to make your business networking more effective?
It had been a couple weeks now I was trying to get four friends together to work on a project. One person said “How about Wednesday?” Two people responded, “Yes, that’s good for me”. Then the fourth responded, “No I can’t do that. How about Thursday?” That continued for a while until we agreed on a time. Then it started all over again when we had to agree on a location.
The newest app to cause a craze this summer is Pokemon Go, released in July. Pokemon Go is a game that brings Pokemon characters to life on the screen, placing them into your view of the world on your screen. How does it place on-screen characters into the world as you see it? The answer is Augmented Reality.

