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Event City of the Future

The events of tomorrow will have technology at their heart, but industry needs to close knowledge gap.

Meet Birmingham launched the ‘Event City of the Future’ report with a roundtable discussion featuring industry leaders including Ian Taylor, Commercial Director at Marketing Birmingham, and Kathryn James, Managing Director of NEC Group.

  • In the next ten years, technology will enhance not replace events
  • However, over three quarters of event organisers (80%) think technology could be more effectively deployed
  • And more than two thirds of those (70%) believe it is due to knowledge gap

Live blogging, digital queue management, virtual reality and holographics are just some of the technologies that will become the norm in events and conferences over the next ten years, according to research by Meet Birmingham.

For highlights of the Event City of the Future report, click here

For the full ‘Event City of the Future’ report, click here

For details of the roundtable discussion click here

For more images of the event click here

You can see clips from our roundtable participants below:

Paul Byrom, MD, Upper Street Events Ltd

Kathryn James, MD, The NEC Group

Chris Pike, General Manager, Radisson Blu

Richard John, Conference News & MEETINGS:review