An unexpected lockdown during a multi-day event is the new nightmare keeping event planners up at night. So when this situation arises during your event, what should you do? That was the dilemma the team at Hanson Australia were faced with when a sudden COVID outbreak caused a state-wide lockdown during their 5-day event in … Read More
Encore rocketed into action with only four weeks to turnaround a completely virtual event for 10, 000 attendees registered for the 43rd Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly. The event organiser, ICMS Australasia, was tasked with delivering the annual event in Sydney which was originally planned to be a week-long and Sydney’s largest conference ... Read More
The Australian Catholic Superannuation Annual Member Meeting for 2020 was forced to pivot online due to COVID restrictions. One of the biggest challenges now was delivering a virtual solution that legally required all board members to attend despite being located in different cities across the eastern States. Having delivered many in-person, virtual and hybrid AGMs, Encore ... Read More
In the peak of a national lockdown is the last place you’d want to start planning your annual event. That’s the uncomfortable position the team at Connect Macquarie Park & North Ryde were placed in late June, 2020. Each year the group, who are responsible for managing businesses and precinct usage within the region, organise ... Read More
Encore delivers fully virtual pharmaceutical and medical conference with industry leading online networking solution Encore delivered the Movement Disorder Society of Australia and New Zealand (MDSANZ) conference 2021 in a fully virtual format on behalf of Westmead Hospital Neurology Department. The team utilised their leading range of virtual technical solutions to ensure the event could ... Read More
Virtual Awards Night For Australian Distilled Spirits Encore enabled The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) to pivot their Australian Distilled Spirits Awards (ADSA) Presentation to a virtual event. Due to the restrictions on movement and social gatherings, the in-person event could not go ahead as planned. Encore jumped to the challenge to support ... Read More
1000s of international attendees. 11 concurrent live streams. 5 action-packed days. 1 event platform. You can’t stop progress. That is the exact sentiment of the organisers of the 38th International Symposium on Combustion who chose to power on by quickly pivoting to a fully virtual event after COVID travel restrictions thwarted their plans. The competitive ... Read More
Deliver a professional online event from Encore’s studios One constant in the events industry is that creating impactful, engaging experiences, whether it be virtual, hybrid or in-person, remains a top priority. Solutions and technologies to deliver these events and support these objectives must be adaptable to the current environment and audience expectations. Plus, as the ... Read More
4 Questions to get you started With majority of events turning to a hybrid format, so too are company Annual General Meetings. Hybrid AGMs have even been endorsed by Australia’s Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, who weighed in on the debate last year around virtual AGMs confirming the government’s preference for a hybrid event model. As reported ... Read More
‘Hybrid’ is defined as the combination of two different elements. In the context of hybrid events, it’s; “a physical meeting in which an online audience also participates. Essentially, both the physical as well as the online audience come together and participate in the same experience or content at the same time, from different locations.” IMPACTPLUS Tweet This ... Read More
