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Women in Business Seminar
An in-person seminar turned into a successful live networking event at the Park Plaza Royal Sonesta Hotel. The event space provided the ideal backdrop for 100 women in business to learn strategic social media tools to boost their businesses. Attendees were socially distanced in the room, making guests feel at ease and allowing business to carry on.
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When The World’s Ready To Meet
We’re Ready
The meeting and events industry is facing an unprecedented situation. Despite the current environment, our industry shows resilience. We align our purpose to show that we are stronger together.
PSAV and our family of companies, along with MMB, EIC, MPI, and PCMA have launched an advocacy campaign for our industry.
Help spread the word with #MeetingsWork on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter!
Because when the world’s ready to meet, we’re ready to create impactful experiences with you.
To read more about the full, global impact meetings and events have on the economy, click here to access the Events Industry Council Research Study.
Proudly Supported by our Family of Companies:
We’re Ready to Create Connections
Even with the convenience of virtual substitutes, in-person events are still the preferred way to meet for an optimal, engaging experience. They deliver top line growth, bottom line results and, most of all, human connections. We learn, change and innovate when we are together — and that value is something that cannot be replicated.
We’re Ready to Ignite The Economy
Meetings and events are a global economic powerhouse. In a study commissioned by the Events Industry Council, findings showed that the business events sector directly generated more output than many large global sectors – including consumer electronics and computers and office equipment.
As the world prepares to return to business as usual, our industry prepares to restore its place as a critical business driver to a healthy and thriving global economy.
We’re Ready to Get Communities Back to Work
Day after day, it’s the people that keep meetings and events running. The people that make up our cities, our communities and our neighborhoods.
From direct impact employees such as banquet, staging, and other hotel and venue staff to the behind-the-scenes team members like accounting, food supply, and technology support, meetings and events are responsible for supporting more than 26 million jobs.
We’re Ready to Drive Business Recovery
Our industry is at the helm of driving business around the world. From local mom-and-pop shops to global economic staples, we work with businesses of all sizes to successfully execute events and advance booming economies.
We’re Ready To Start Working
Meetings and events put people to work. The income earned for these hardworking individuals allows them to provide for their families, send kids to college and save for retirement.
When events happen, everybody goes back to work — putting money back into our economy.
When the World’s ready to Meet
We’re Ready
The meeting and events industry is facing an unprecedented situation. Despite the current environment, our industry shows resilience. We align our purpose to show that we are stronger together.
PSAV and our family of companies, along with MMB, EIC, MPI, and PCMA have launched an advocacy campaign for our industry.
Help spread the word with #MeetingsWork on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter!
Because when the world’s ready to meet, we’re ready to create impactful experiences with you.
To read more about the full, global impact meetings and events have on the economy, click here to access the Events Industry Council Research Study.
Proudly Supported by our Family of Companies:
We’re Ready to Create Connections
Even with the convenience of virtual substitutes, in-person events are still the preferred way to meet for an optimal, engaging experience. They deliver top line growth, bottom line results and, most of all, human connections. We learn, change and innovate when we are together — and that value is something that cannot be replicated.
We’re Ready to Ignite the Economy
Meetings and events are a global economic powerhouse. In a study commissioned by the Events Industry Council, findings showed that the business events sector directly generated more output than many large global sectors – including consumer electronics and computers and office equipment.
As the world prepares to return to business as usual, our industry prepares to restore its place as a critical business driver to a healthy and thriving global economy.
We’re Ready to Get Communities Back to Work
Day after day, it’s the people that keep meetings and events running. The people that make up our cities, our communities and our neighborhoods.
From direct impact employees such as banquet, staging, and other hotel and venue staff to the behind-the-scenes team members like accounting, food supply, and technology support, meetings and events are responsible for supporting more than 26 million jobs.
We’re Ready to Drive Business Recovery
Our industry is at the helm of driving business around the world. From local mom-and-pop shops to global economic staples, we work with businesses of all sizes to successfully execute events and advance booming economies.
We’re Ready to Start Working
Meetings and events put people to work. The income earned for these hardworking individuals allows them to provide for their families, send kids to college and save for retirement.
When events happen, everybody goes back to work – putting money back into our economy.
MeetSAFE™
Meetings and events support more than ten million jobs worldwide. To help get the live event industry, event planners, and our teams back to work and begin the road to recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, meeting safely will undoubtedly be a priority.
Encore and our family of companies will be at the forefront in safe meeting practices related to the services provided by our industry leading brands.
As shelter-in-place restrictions ease, physical distancing and enhanced cleaning procedures will remain an essential part of making people comfortable with meeting.
Risk and health are two key considerations for businesses and associations. An anticipated phase one recovery for our industry likely represents smaller meeting sizes following evolving government guidelines.
With fewer people meeting and a cleaning routine in place, the risk to attendees will be reduced.
How will meeting safely in the early stages of recovery look?
Working alongside venue partners, Encore is designing a series of meeting formats, equipment packages, and recommendations that address how to reduce risk, increase confidence, and promote health within the meeting space.
Meeting design, room layout, technology considerations and enhanced cleaning procedures are at the heart of this offering with the goal to make the meetings and events industry strong, and healthier than ever.
Meeting Design Options: Local to Global Solutions
As people return to in person meetings, smaller groups could potentially fall into three meeting designs:
Hybrid Boardroom Meetings
One
Room
Hybrid Small Meetings
Multi-room,
Broadcast Communication
Hybrid Mid-Size Meetings
Multi-room/Multi-venue,
Networked Communication
*Hybrid: All three meeting designs can incorporate a virtual stream for attendees and presenters that are not able to make the in-person meeting.
Room Layout
With the meeting design in mind, room layouts may look different. Incorporating physical distancing and traffic flow will reduce risk and promote health within the meeting environment.
Tables and chairs may be spaced to meet best practices and floor decals, and other forms of signage may inform attendees on the best way to move through the space to limit contact.
Technology equipment will be sized according to the new space with the addition of virtual components as necessary.
Technology Considerations
This illustration highlights technologies that can help support these meeting designs.
Beyond traditional items like projectors and screens, items to support sound reinforcement, recording, web-conferencing and digital tools for polling and Q&A should be considered.
Cleaning Guidelines
As the event space changes, it will be more important than ever to create a space that continues to promote collaboration and engagement and while focusing heavily on hygiene.
Encore is educating our team members on enhanced cleaning procedures. We are doing this to help stop the spread of germs as we strive to build upon our commitment to safety.
Tent cards will indicate when equipment has been cleaned, with particular attention to high-touch items such as microphones, keyboards, wireless presenters and markers.
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Florida Optometric Association Conference
An annual medical association meeting was held as an in-person meeting with MeetSAFE™ guidelines observed. This meant appropriate social distancing and other guidelines to minimize risks to the Florida hotel and meeting guests. MeetSAFE™ allowed the Production crew to plan the 200-person General Session effectively by creating a wider stage set.
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Purposeful Meetings: How to plan with deeper meaning, innovation and insight in mind
In partnership with the Worldwide Exhibition for Incentive Travel, Meetings and Events (IMEX) and several industry experts, Encore (PSAV) sponsored the development of an industry whitepaper: “Purposeful Meetings: How to plan with deeper meaning, innovation and insight in mind”.
The research centers on five key elements of a meeting experience that impact human behavior and how to leverage them:
- Behavioral Science
- Health & Well-Being
- Event Design
- Social Responsibility
- Technology
Special Event
Gala and Dinner
Objectives
For the 13th year running, we supported BBC Studios Showcase 2019, the world’s largest international television market hosted by a single distributor. The event brought together producers, talent, BBC executives and Britain’s most successful creatives.
Previously known as BBC Worldwide Showcase, the 2019 event marked a new chapter for Showcase, the first year under the Studios banner. A celebration of British creativity, the exclusive events previewed some of the BBC’s exciting new programs, including Top Gear, The Planets, and One Planet: Seven Worlds. Led by the BBC Studios team, our Group Creative Director Peter Harding helped produce and deliver a spectacular production design for the two awe-inspiring evenings.
Line of business: Television
We Delivered: Technical Execution
Solutions
Showcase Gala Dinner
Putting premium British content right at the center of the global stage, night one saw the M&S Bank Arena transformed into a glamourous gala dinner. With top BBC talent, including Brian Cox and Sir David Attenborough taking to the stage, our team delivered an impressive set.
Ensuring the beautiful BBC content was showcased in all its glory, the team surrounded the dining space with 12 large LED screens, and A striking LED strip chandelier, to form the perfect dramatic centerpiece.
To round off an evening of exceptional entertainment, guests partied the night away in a secret space revealed after dinner. Our team created the perfect party atmosphere while our GLUX LED panels created a vibrant stage background.
One Planet: Seven Worlds
Night Two brought to life the BBC’s latest natural history offering, One Planet: Seven Worlds, with guests treated to a VIP dining experience. With just twelve hours to transform the arena, the team utilized the LED from the previous night to create seven 6-meter-high portrait screens hung in the center of the dining space.
Flown using Kinesys, the panels moved independently, rising to reveal an in-the-round stage that played host to legendary composer Hans Zimmer. If that wasn’t enough, guests caught an exclusive first look at the new natural history programs, accompanied by a rousing performance from a live orchestra.
Results
BBC Client Testimonial
Sally Brookes, Head of Global Events at BBC Studios, said,
“We love working with the [team] to create such memorable evenings to celebrate the very best of our content. It is, without a doubt, their personal energy and passion, which always means so much to us. This is what really helps us win through when the timelines are against us, not mentioning, of course, their careful attention to detail and the absolute brilliant creative flair to bring all things technical together.”
Each Event Is An Original
Each of your events is unique, so we customize each one to meet your objectives.
Let’s Talk About Your Event Experience Needs.
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Meetings and Conferences
Keynote Presentation, Event Design, Staging Design
Objectives
Collaborating with the Timewise and One West Event Design teams, FMAV by Encore was tasked with creating an immersive experience that would welcome and accommodate high–caliber presenters and keynotes. The space needed to be welcoming to audience members and arranged in a way that encouraged networking and conversation.
Line of business: Industry Event We Delivered: Event Strategy & Production
Solutions
Designing the Main Room
The team met in the Edmonton office to align and frame an event narrative that reflected the value that it represents to the event’s various stakeholders.
To achieve this narrative, we applied several design strategies in the main room. Firstly, we manipulated the shape to break the standard rectangular box of an event space. Turned 45°, the layout created a triangular shape with video screens and impactful draping. The shape served two purposes. First, to provide an emphasis on the main stage as the focal point. And secondly, to envelope the audience as if the screens and drape were embracing them in a metaphorical way.
To reinvent the stage experience and complement the angle of the room, FMAV designed a diamond–shaped stage that kept the audience close to the action on stage while keeping the stage height above 36” in order to give the presenters an air of rock stardom.
Using an FMAV stage solution, we designed a maple leaf as a nod to our proud Canadian heritage. OneWest Event Design provided mixed seating arrangements strategically placed to encourage attendee interaction with one another. The seating provided the perfect layout to connect with content and conversation outside of the onstage presentations as well.
To add to the sense of audience intimacy, FMAV designed a rigging plot with truss lines raking down towards the back of the room. This created a lower ceiling bringing an intimate mood to the audience area while keeping the main stage theatrical. To accentuate the rake of the truss, tiered seating was installed at the back of the room, allowing attendees to get a higher sightline, creating a unique experience from that vantage point.
Some small subtle technology choices were made to enable and enhance the attendee’s connection to the presenters. For example, a robotic camera was positioned at the back corner of the stage near the presenter’s entry point. It allowed for a reverse angle shot capturing the presenters entering and exiting from the stage. This shot choice in essence ‘broke the 4th wall’ showing the audience a part of the backstage experience of which most attendees are very familiar. It both humanized and energized the arrival and departure of each presenter.
The IMAG screens were portrait orientated to allow for a full body shot making the presenter 16’ high, enhancing the gravitas and feeding that ‘rock star’ aesthetic.
Results
All of this came together to achieve the event narrative with great effect. Allowing Timewise, FMAV, and OneWest Event Design to contribute in our unique ways creates community, fosters innovation and shows our mutual pride of Western Canada.
Let’s Talk About Your Event Experience Needs.
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Special Event
Gala Dinner for Luxury Brand
Objectives
DIOR held its annual kickoff event at the Grand Hotel Heiligendamm. The three-day event included full production services for breakout sessions, a gala dinner and fashion show with the theme, “Joyful Glam”.
Line of business: Luxury Lifestyle Brand We Delivered: Full Production Services for 3 Events
Solutions
For the second year in a row, we helped DIOR Germany hold its annual kick-off meeting at the Grand Hotel Heiligendamm. The spa area was transformed into a branded event pavilion with a catwalk staged directly above the pool, branded areas for fragrance and beauty lines, as well as elegant dinner seating. Other services included breakout rooms for training sessions, special event lighting, and creative branding to tie all event areas together in a beautiful way.
Results
Catharina Christe, Marketing Director, LVHM Parfums & Kosmetik Deutschland GmbH:
“We want to create moments that money can’t buy, because that’s what such an event is all about. [Your team’s] creativity and passion made our event a great success. It is truly unique that the ideas were implemented even better than we had imagined during the conception phase. We are already looking forward to the next joint events”.