Offices, schools, supermarkets-almost every modern establishment has begun implementing technology as an important tool for growth and maintenance.
Not even the world of corporate events can escape the grasp of technology.
It has grabbed event planning and management by the neck as it pushes for increased efficiency in every aspect of the event delivery process.
Technology now plays a very important role in function planning and management.
You need to make sure you know exactly what technology is doing and how you can leverage it to deliver the most perfect corporate event in this modern age.
So, are you ready to find out what role tech has begun to play in corporate gatherings?
Keep reading, we’re about to get to it!
Technology and Events
Of course, if we tried to list every single way that technology positively impacts modern corporate events, you’d be here until Manchester United wins the league (That’s a very long time-trust me).
So to keep things short, here are the 5 key roles of technology in modern corporate events.
Improving Attendee Experience
Technology such as biometrics and ID scanners have significantly increased security at corporate events.
No more intruders to your functions like we wrote about in our article on Choosing the Perfect Venue For Your Corporate Event.
Such high-tech security at gatherings is not yet widespread in Uganda but is quickly growing and will prove to be the default for many corporate events in the future.
With the privacy and security brought by these innovations, attendees feel more secure and safe-increasing their event experience.
Technology such as apps and cloud storage have also created an opportunity for attendees to easily transfer and receive data such as files, images, and documents relevant to the event.
The overall simplicity of this transfer process has greatly increased the experience of audiences at corporate events.
The time of looking for misplaced papers and printed documents before events is now in the past.
Communication
New virtual gathering methods such as zoom and google meets have recently proved as efficient ways of event communication.
They give users the opportunity to join and attend events from any location around the world making communication simple and more effective in situations where attendees are spread over a large geographical area.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered translation technology now also allows events to be translated into the language of the listener in the case that they are not familiarized with the language being used at the event.
Such innovations have greatly improved the communication at corporate events between people with different language backgrounds.
New sound system technology now supports features that make the sound at events clearer and more agreeable for the audience, improving the communication between speakers and listeners.
Marketing and Research
This one is kind of obvious.
Social Media.
Social media has made marketing events insanely easy allowing you to reach possible attendees with offers and invitations to your corporate events at a cost of little to nothing.
The internet has also made it easier for you to understand how successful events like yours have been through research and how others approach the different aspects of event planning and preparation to execute seamless corporate events.
You now also have the opportunity to learn uncountable amounts of information from sites like this concerning event planning and management.
Sustainability
In one of our past articles on How to Make Your Conference Eco-Friendly, we talked about how technology now provides your audience with access to important documents at corporate events.
This creates a reduction in printing and paper requirements that are part of the reason for the increasing rates of global deforestation.
Less paper used means more planet conservation-tech is definitely helping us use less paper at corporate events.
Like I mentioned in the point above about communication, technology has improved the efficiency and simplicity of virtual events.
These virtual events allow people to join from anywhere, reducing their expenditure on carbon emitting transport such as cars and planes, thus contributing to environmentalism.
Event Reach
Technology has also opened the door to a wider audience reach for corporate events.
Events can now be live streamed using platforms like Youtube and Twitch that allow large amounts of people to access the event content in real time.
In the case that people can’t live stream events, technology is being used to document videos, images, sound, and other media that can be re-shared after the event.
Those who get caught in traffic and miss out can now rewatch and experience the function in their own time.
This means more people can view the event either live or afterwards.
One event now reaches a much wider audience than it would reach initially without these advancements in technology.
What Tech Can’t Do
Technology has taken some giant leaps in the past two decades that are now improving the efficiency and effectiveness of corporate events in Uganda and across the world.
However, the one thing technology can not do is plan and manage a corporate event from bottom to top.
The best way to execute a seamlessly perfect event is with an experienced event planner like Tellit Events.
Here at Tellit Events, our priority is to take your function from just an idea and bring it to life as a beautifully set up and well managed event.
If you’ve had a corporate event idea marinating up there but don’t know how to start, hit the find out more button below and let’s get started together.
We’ll meet on the other side!
