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The meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (Mice) industry was particularly hard hit by the pandemic. The big question is: What will the future of events look like?
Tamlynne Wilton-Gurney, chief ideas officer, Idna Africa, disagrees. She believes virtual events will be around for a lot longer, and therefore events organisers need to build experiences that will engage attendees. “A zoom call is not getting my emotions going.”
She said her company had to think completely out of the box to create real magic in the virtual space.
The events industry has always been in the shallow end of technology. Covid has forced us to think differently.
A mix of a live event and online gives people the option of choosing where they feel safe. “Hybrid is the way forward. Not just a zoom meeting,” she said.
Venues
“Face-to-face events will come back, but they will never come back in the way it was before,” said Taubie Motlhabane, chief executive officer of the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).
With technology, people don’t have to physically be there. The good thing about virtual events is that it gives people who don’t have the resources to pay for travel and accommodation more accessibility to knowledge sharing, she said.
But what to do with the monstrosities we’ve built? What can we do with venues to make the same money.
For instance, during South Africa’s first wave, the CTICC was repurposed as the Hospital of Hope, the country’s first large-scale field hospital.
“You aren’t going to get people back to venues unless they feel safe,” said Wilton-Gurney.
She suggested a three-tier model which includes a live, indoor event, and the choice of an ancillary outdoor venue with livestreaming at a discounted rate and an even cheaper online option.
Motlhabane said that venues must “find the sweet spot of running an amazing live event, and an amazing online experience, which is still sustainable”.
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