Stepping up from Zoom

Making Strategic Choices for Virtual and Hybrid Futures

Thursday 22nd April 2021 10.00 – 11.45

Facing choices and business plan dilemmas about how to budget, finance and manage future events programmes?

Reached the limits of what you can present on meetings apps like Zoom?

Bombarded by high-tech apps and online conference portals promising to solve all your technical and commercial problems?

Struggling to understand the range of virtual and hybrid offers?

Trying to budget for next year through opaque costs and uncertain revenues?

After a year of getting by on Zoom, Teams and Webex (we would have been lost without them) and experimenting with conference apps from the likes of Cvent, Whova, Swapcard, Slido, Socio, communications directors and event producers now need to map out and budget for their strategic communication options coming out of the pandemic.

In this free Narrowcast Media Group Masterclass, Neil Stewart will take you through the options and answer your questions on:

• Creating the Communications Director's tool box for hybrid and virtual events
• How to analyse your current audiences, spending and future options
• The in-house or outsource dilemma
• The economics and budgeting of hybrid and virtual events
• Avoiding the 5 most common mistakes and misunderstandings about virtual and hybrid programmes
• How to compare online platforms and their costs
• How to meet your carbon reduction targets coming down the line

Neil Stewart has been live streaming client events for 12 years, producing over 2000 programmes, conferences and exhibitions, in addition to providing consultancy on strategy and transforming events programmes for organisations for 25 years.