Telepresent Ltd.

At Telepresent we create online experiences that are more than just webinars or meetings. Where people properly connect, interact, and enjoy gathering together in person, no matter where they are. You can see everyone, pop over and talk with anyone. There are also amazing presentation tools to deliver a wide variety of session formats. Make your next event something unforgettable! ✨ www.telepresent.online

Trade Mission Pro is specifically designed for conducting high-impact trade events online, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods. These events happen in sophisticated, high-class interactive environments that deliver meaningful face-to-face business conversations.

🔹 Enjoyable Networking: Join live video chats at virtual tables. View participants’ profiles and navigate conversations with ease. No more blind breakout rooms, see who is located where BEFORE joining a group, or make a beeline for people you know or would particularly like to meet.  

🔹 Flexible Interaction: Move freely between conversations, join group discussions or grab a private table. Gather people at booths by interest or industry, or organisation. The possibilities are endless to pump-prime meaningful conversations and new connections.

🔹 Multilingual Communication: Overcome language barriers through real-time translation. Several options available. AI message translation in over two hundred languages is included as standard.

🔹 Impressive presentations, panel discussions and workshops: Outstanding interactive presentation tools. Present to everyone attending easily, and provide on-demand media embedded in the environments. Wide range of workshop and session formats supported.

🔹 Ease of use: Point and click navigation. Auto-join video conversations. Streamlined registration. The whole experience has been designed to be simple, face-to-face, intuitive and human. No long forms, algorithms or speed dating. 

🔹 Secure: Our platform ensures robust security with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 1 certification, and maintains privacy with no conversation recording.

🔹 Inclusive Participation: A much lower cost of entry opens up the possibilities of cross-border trade support to many more organisations.

🔹 Premium Service: High class white glove service as standard. Events are well planned, well set, well-staffed, all ready for your team to arrive and focus on your invited guests. Our job is to make the technology disappear so the focus is completely on the people attending.

Trade Mission Pro offers a sophisticated, secure, and scalable solution for organisations seeking to expand their outreach and enhance their business event capabilities. We invite you to come and experience our telepresent environments for yourself. These are not ordinary online events.

Visit www.TradeMission.pro to find out more and see some of the outstanding venues we have available.

Or drop me a line directly at iain@trademission.pro.

#TradeMissionPro #VirtualTradeMissions #NetworkingSolutions #EventTechnology #Telepresent

If the event is in a proper digital venue that is!

It's just like being at a proper conference or workshop. You can see everyone and speak with anyone.

Our venues can hold up to a thousand people in one hall... and you can network and chat with all of them. Great environments with a real WOW factor add to the buzz of being properly present and part of the event.

Grab a coffee before a session starts and have a chat. Pop over and talk to the speaker afterwards. Introduce yourself to interesting people, take a tour of the trade booths, or make a beeline to catch up with a colleague.

The downside? You have to work the room... you know... use those networking and communication skills. You are in charge of you, where you go, and who you talk with.

Everyone, all together, in the same venue, at the same time... and able to easily mix and mingle with everyone else. You can see who is sitting where, and locate where people are right now from the guest list. You can also locate specific people in the attendee list and pop over to where they are, or invite them to join you.

Find out more at www.telepresent.online

𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁: We have the best digital venues on the best platforms.

#Telepresence #Telepresent #DigitalEvents #remo

Over 60% of delegates say networking is the number one reason they attend events, according to the latest survey by Excel (December 23). Only 12% of respondents put 'opportunities to learn' as the main reason for attending. So talks can be of much less importance than many organisers think. 8% was meeting existing business connections (which kind of falls into the networking camp? ...the 'meeting up' camp anyway).

In-person networking is what people want. To make new acquaintances, catch up with colleagues, explore opportunities and make new business connections. To chat with peers and find out what's going on. To test out ideas and see how people respond, and to engage with and listen to people who might have some really interesting thoughts or observations.

Many online events fail badly at this. However, if your event is not delivering proper in-person connection, the attendee experience is lacklustre at best. Attendees know this. They have to sit through it.

And connecting with others is just as vital for internal company events. Meet people from other departments, offices and regions. Catch up with colleagues, share knowledge and ideas, and make new contacts. People feel far more included, valued, and part of the larger team when they can actually get together.

Doing that online is hugely more efficient and deliverable than trying to get everyone together physically, and a proper venue where people can mix and mingle delivers a much more valuable experience than a massive video call or 'broadcast at people' webinar.

The recent study conducted by Excel had some other interesting findings.

"...our research suggests that while the right environment for networking can be arranged, it cannot be forced. It has to feel organic, and venue design is crucial. A well-designed venue increases the likelihood of what we have termed curated serendipity – a seemingly chance meeting with exactly the right person or people to help achieve organisational aims."

We could not agree more!

That's exactly the approach we take when designing an online venue!

The other vital ingredient to online networking is 'agency'. For people to be in control of where they go, who the choose to meet, what groups they decide to join. To have freedom to network naturally.

In a proper digital venue you can see where everyone is. Mouse over them to see who they are. Click to check out their business card. Locate specific people in the participants list and pop over to see them. Introduce people... you know all the things you do at a normal in-person event... but online!

Chat with the people at your table before a talk starts. Pop over and see the speaker after the session. Join a discussion group or workshop. Visit the exhibitor stands in the lunch break... all this and more is now easy to deliver online.

So the key ingredients to networking online are:

1. An in-person event where you can see everyone and speak with anyone. The more natural the better.

2. A great environment, optimised and tailored to stimulate the right conversations.

3. Free agency for delegates. They are not numbers... empower them and let them enjoy the event.

So, worth taking time to consider what delegate's and attendees actually want. It may be rather different from what online event organisers sometimes think.

It's easy to get carried away with what we want to communicate at events.

To lay on talk after talk and think we are delivering great value.

To gather reams of data to better nudge things in the future.

But it's important to remember the event experience is also key. How people attending the event feel really matters... and there are only so many back-to-back talks with little interaction that most people can handle.

At Telepresent we specialise in delivering in-person events online. We bend technology to deliver what needs to happen, rather than limit an event to what a particular platform can handle. Our complete focus is on enhancing the delegate experience, which also leads to outstanding results for event hosts and sponsors.

Find our more at: www.telepresent.online

Sign up to our newsletter for the latest on-line event news, tips and tricks. https://mailchi.mp/telepresent/news

And please... next time your planning an online event... put the delegate goggles on.

It can be a rather different and hugely valuable perspective.

Often, what attendees most want is to network with other people.

-------------------------------------------

About the author: Iain runs Telepresent Ltd. who specialise in delivering online conference and event facilities. DM Iain for more information on how to host really effective online gatherings to empower your community.

#events #networking #training #telepresent #eventprofs #virtualevent