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English Core Cities and the passion behind those who are actively working on their Hybrid Events Solution UK project is absolutely staggering.
Despite the heavy impact of the Covid-19 pandemic upon the whole industry, many of the convention bureaus we have worked with as technology partners have shown that we will not give up easily and will keep pushing forward with the tenacity and creativity.
Core Cities UK
Core Cities UK was born to satisfy the need of consolidating efforts towards unleashing the full potential of our great cities and create a stronger and fairer UK society with an empowered economy.
The Hybrid Events Solutions UK
HESUK, is a creative assembly point, a safe place where meeting planners and organisers will be capable to work with Covid-secure venues across the network in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield, as well as destinations outside of the Core Cities group. HESUK is the response for this new-normal, where multiple business audiences across the country are looking for a solution for delivering national hybrid events in Covid-safe venues.
In the permanent effort to support the conference and events industry in the UK, we, at venuedirectory.com, want to promote the free-of-charge initiative proposed by English Core Cities and spread the voice in support of those assisting customers transitioning to virtual and hybrid events.
The Core UK Cities initiative follows hot on the heels of services being offered by some of the more traditional businesses that offer this service. Both options offer the meeting planner a great deal of choice when planning their next event. The Core Cities idea is a great one if you have delegates at each of the locations as they can be supported by the local convention bureau offering advice on accommodation, transport, activities and an in depth knowledge of what's going on in those cities.
The teams at the Core City convention bureau are ready to set up a call to discuss your brief and bring all the locations together with one call. Core City convention bureau teams:
Birmingham & West Midlands - bcb.conferencesales@wmgrowth.com
Bristol - conference@meetbristol.co.uk
Leeds - info@conferenceleeds.co.uk
Liverpool - conferences@marketingliverpool.co.uk
Manchester - conference@visitmanchester.com
NewcastleGateshead - conventionbureau@ngi.org.uk
Nottingham - conferences@visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk
Sheffield - vistor@sheffield.gov.uk
Technology Partners’ Solutions
ExecSpace
ExecSpace based in Edinburgh offers a range of services and suppliers to accommodate your demand, audience and technology to the right virtual platform, fulfilling the diverse needs of their customers for their different types of events. With good local knowledge they have developed a service that has been widely recommend and is tried and tested.
Conference Care
Conference Care, also provides multiple solutions for raining, AGM’s, webinars, conferences, awards dinners, supply management of the virtual event platform, speaker management, chroma key room, schedules, rehearsals, production, background, post-event feedback, data analysis and bespoke packages to suit their customer’s requirements.Their platform which they are working with dovetails seamlessly with their more traditional event management services and makes they a popular choice.
From the smallest social media post, to the largest virtual event and everything in between, the team of Absolute Corporate Events will provide you the same level of care, consideration and attention their customer’s need to make their digital messages more than a virtual copy of the real thing. Their experience really shines through in the care and attention they take with their virtual and hybrid events engaging on all levels with the customer and the delegates offering a real sensory engagement to their events.
DRPG
DRPG has three key virtual experiences to fit their client’s budget and overall communication objectives. They are all highly flexible, with several options available for creating and delivering their content. The history in the TV world is reflected in the production values of their events with a television quality to the event giving a high definition finish to the event. It really is lights, camera - Action with the team from DRPG
Ellis Salsby
Ellis Salsby, brings their customers the opportunity to guide them through the technology challenges to make sure their event is professional and painless. Either a live event, pre-recorded or a combination of both, they will ensure to provide you with the most cost effective solution with the same feeling of a ‘live’ event and interactive experience. With over 30 years experience in live event production this gives the organiser the comfort they know what they are doing which has transcended into the virtual world.
Brief2Event
The know how to transform that into a fully virtual or hybrid experience. Making the whole virtual transition into a great experience. Also they support their clients with networking, sponsorship options plus resources for gamification and delegate engagement. With a diverse range of clients their engagement is tailored to the clients needs and with experience in both the smaller intimate events to arena based productions they bring a personality to the process that is engaging and achieves results.
Endorsement of a great idea
Hybrid is going to be part of the event planners tool kit moving forward and there are definitely some great solutions out there. The Core Cities initiative has certainly seen some great feedback; Simon Hughes, Chairman of Business Visits Events Partnership (BVEP) said: “The Hybrid Events Solution UK is a fantastic concept, and it is inspiring to see these cities working together to help instil consumer confidence and get the conference and events industry up and running again.” Also some great comments from Heather Lishman, Association Director of the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO) said: “The Hybrid Events Solution UK is a glowing example of how the conference and events industry is innovating and working together to support each other through this damaging period. It’s wonderful to see this level of collaboration from the English Core Cities