Infomous Gets Top Nod From VCs At Innovator Evening Event
Martial Salleh
This year, our evening event will take us into the beautiful Dresden district "Loschwitz" with its charming, half-timbered houses, a multitude of tasteful 19th century villas, three castles, two mountain railroads and a bridge (the famous "Blue Wonder"/ "Blaues Wunder"). Right by the riverside, at the head of the "Blaues Wunder" bridge, the ElbeGarten Dresden offers its guests a varied, regional cuisine in a stylish atmosphere.
For over 30 years, NC State University has held an annual Celebration of Innovation, awarding an innovator of the year and an entrepreneur of the year. On the evening of Oct. 12, for the first time since 2019, Chancellor Randy Woodson hosted the event in person again, at his residence on Centennial Campus, The Point.
What is the best way to drive innovative work inside organizations? Important clues hide in the stories of world-renowned creators. It turns out that ordinary scientists, marketers, programmers, and other unsung knowledge workers, whose jobs require creative productivity every day, have more in common with famous innovators than most managers realize. The workday events that ignite their emotions, fuel their motivation, and trigger their perceptions are fundamentally the same.
Later Thursday evening, Beilock gathered with friends, family, and Dartmouth trustees and senior leaders for a dinner in the Hanover Inn ballroom. Attendees included her mother, Ellen, her college roommate, PhD advisers, and former colleagues from the University of Chicago and Barnard.
Attendees are more likely to pay to play games or activities they are participating in which makes sports and gamification popular for fundraising. Organize a simple pay to play mini-game such as guess the sweets in the jar or go big and organize an entire sports tournament as part of your event. The winners can receive a product or service from sponsors and the money
Plenty of branding opportunities and perfect for large event transportation or pre-event build-up. Segways are still interesting and a novelty for many, even though they were released years ago. You could make them available to rent from your booth at trade shows, giving you excellent reach as they make an impact, or ride them in public to market your event.
Invite street entertainers to create an urban atmosphere at your event. They are always popular because of their innovative approach to performing and you could offer a variety of options from beatboxers, tricking, break dancers or homemade instruments.
Put together a free two-part webinar that precludes the event and gets attendees excited and educated which could include sneak peeks from speakers as well as industry relevant information. Make part 2 available post-event that includes highlights and key takeaways.
Event professionals wildly ignore the power of remarketing when it gets to event promotion. It is a great idea to convert more attendees. If someone visits your site, you have two special pixels installed to follow them everywhere on Facebook and Google network. If they abandoned your ticket purchase process, you can incentivize them with a small discount. They are hot leads, you just need to push the decision.
Ask your speakers to send short videos shot from their smartphones (in landscape mode) telling your audience why they need to attend their session and what are they going to cover. This is usually a great incentive to make the audience comfortable with the topics that will be discussed and quickly evaluate whether attending your event is worth it. Speakers have an incredible influence on attendees.
Make these ahead of time or encourage sponsored lenses at your event so that attendees can augment their reality. These lenses allow users to create layers that interact with real-life so you could make several elements or props animated when viewed through the lens. This gets attendees interacting via Snapchat and sharing all over social media for promotion.
This could be anyone from an industry professional to a celebrity or influencer but this involves paying them to promote your event. Use technology tools to involve your core fans to share and get a commission on each ticket sold. There are tools available to generate codes and share your event with the top contacts that may purchase a ticket. Be specific with your ambassador program.
A fantastic community catering idea that involves each attendee bringing a food item to contribute to the buffet table. A variation on a traditional potluck can involve hosting an outdoor BBQ, where a designated griller makes the entrees and other neighbors are responsible for sides and fixings. For larger events, you want to make sure you have everything from starters to sweets so you can allocate meal (or drink) types to groups of people who can then organize with each other what they are going to specifically bring. This is an excellent way of bringing people together and starts a conversation on what everyone has brought.
Give back to the community by incorporating a drive for something that directly benefits them. For example, blast some music and get everyone picking litter in the local park before being rewarded with event fun and games. It adds a sense of community pride and the work gets done much faster (and cheaper) than if the local authority has to deal with it.
Use music to make your event emotive and have an eclectic mix from all genres to appeal to everyone. Offer a dance-a-thon alongside your event that couples can enter or simply have non-stop music until the party ends. Make this more interesting by having duelling bands or pianos or a skilled MC to mix things up and try new musical combinations of classical and current music.
Is your community or event near water? A new popular trend is to take paddleboards or small boats out and collect litter from waterways to keep them clean and be sustainable. You can have volunteers on hand to help raise awareness and educate passers-by in terms of the damage rubbish can do to local wildlife and habitats. You could print signage and leaflets or work with a local charity who already has these resources.
Friendly betting on sporting events or outcomes can add a competitive atmosphere and gets everyone talking and interacting in participation. In office sweepstakes, you can bid on the outcome of anything, from when a baby is due to what the weather will be like on a certain day, the winner gets to keep half of the final pot.
If you live in a city that has local sports teams, an outing to a sports arena is always a popular company event. Attendees can relax, enjoy a beer and snacks, and bond over their love for the home team. Sporting events are also a surprisingly flexible option, enabling you to select the package that best fits your budget. For instance, you can do everything from renting out a box and offering catering to just reserving a block of seats in the nose bleeders.
A corporate fundraising idea that could be adapted for the event if a team meets their sales targets! Everyone votes on the costume and when the milestone is reached, the boss has to wear the costume in the office for the day. The boss has the option to defer, for a huge sum to the employee of their choice (who can also do the same.)
Offer the air of mystery by creating a corporate event such as a gala or awards dinner with the masquerade theme. It helps allow everyone to feel comfortable and ignoring roles or titles for the evening.
Create an open house for aspiring artists to showcase their work easily. Open spots for different mediums from photography, sculpture and painting to make the selection more diverse and offer it as the participatory part of your event.
Inception Events
It is becoming increasingly popular to create an inception event which involves adding one event type into another. This is an example of a festival theme being used for a corporate dinner, recreating the atmosphere but for a classy evening event.
Give attendees a memorable token to take away from the event in the form of a mixed-reality photo. The options for scenarios are endless and you can seamlessly integrate products, branding, and sponsorship into the end result.
Help attendees continue their conversations by offering a way they can follow up, whether this is forms that they can exchange, a list of attendees and companies they came from (make sure you get permission first!) or even a follow-up event or mixer they can attend!
Treat VIPs or important corporate guests to their own chauffeur service to and from your event. It gives them greater flexibility with drinking and avoids having to park, plus being driven somewhere and taken home is a luxurious feeling and avoid much forethought. You could offer a chauffeur service as part of a VIP package too and pick up groups for other special events
Give yourselves something to look forward to for your next milestone and make history at the event by creating a time capsule. Invite attendees to bring a personal item to include or simply have the capsule on display with what will be included which can also have memorabilia from the evening. Just be sure to get permission when using names or personal information in the capsule.
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