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Strengthen engagement with
tactile experiences
Ready to transform your events? Discover the power of touch when using technology to engage participants, deepen connections, and create memorable experiences by leveraging tactile sensations! It’s all in our FREE guide, Harnessing the Potential of Touch with Technology!
Dive into the world of kinesthetic elements that promote learning, collaboration and inclusion. Get your FREE resource and enhance the emotional impact of your event experiences.
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Explore how to:
- Use touch-optimized tech to boost engagement and spontaneous interactions
- Enhance learning through tactile experiences, aiding problem-solving and collaboration
- Accommodate kinesthetic learners by incorporating elements that aid their focus and memory
- Elevate events with the throwable Catchbox microphone, Chime Live, Polling+ and more popular tech solutions that work for your goals
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Delight guests with a sensory feast
Create immersive culinary experiences that engage your guests and make lasting memories with our FREE guide on merging taste and tech, Gastronomic Fusion: Elevating Catering Experiences Through Technology Integration!
Explore trending ways to tie menus to event themes, enhance the presentation of your dishes and leverage innovative solutions to turn typical meals into thrilling food journeys.
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- Create immersive dining events that elevate participants’ perception of food, utilizing surrounding elements
- Leverage taste’s connection to memory for positive associations and emotional engagement
- Tie menu to event themes, building a holistic and emotionally resonant experience
- Use technology like lighting, interactive menus and AR to enhance the culinary experience
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Enhance interactions with
proven aromas
Did you know 75% of all emotions generated every day are related to smell? When it comes to your events, leveraging the power of scent can enhance the experience and make it even more memorable, creating a lasting impact!
Dive into our FREE guide, Scented Storytelling: Creating Memorable Experiences, and learn how to boost engagement, evoke positive memories and more to elevate the sensory impact of your events.
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- How to use aromas intentionally for positive participant experiences
- Proven aroma solutions that enhance mood and social interaction
- Creative inspiration for transforming event spaces with aroma
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Amplify your impact through
audio excellence
Ready to uplift your events, engage participants and make memories that resonate long after the event is over? Download your FREE copy of Symphony of Sound: Orchestrating Emotional Connections, and gain actionable insights, expert advice and key tips for amplifying your emotional impact on participants through intentional audio choices.
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- Enhance communication and engagement using sound effects and music
- Amplify storytelling, forging deeper emotional connections
- Craft mood-setting playlists to leave a lasting impression, and more!
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Drive emotional resonance with
visual experiences
Did you know approximately 75% of what we learn happens through what we see?
When done effectively, leveraging the power of visuals can boost participant learning, interaction and more at your events. Explore actionable insights, expert advice, and key tips on leveraging visual experiences for these outcomes in our FREE guide, The Power of Visuals to Enhance Learning and Engagement!
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- Shape immersive environments for lasting impressions
- Foster inclusivity through intentional imagery
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- And much more!
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Find the Perfect Blend of Technology Solutions to Transform Your
Small Meetings
Discover combinations of technology solutions that could make your small meeting an unforgettable success. Our small meeting product portfolio covers ideas for room setups that will impress your stakeholders with technology configurations tailored to your small meeting’s specific needs.
The results? Better participant experiences that ensure the meeting objectives are not only met but surpassed — with increased ROI.
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- Best technology mix for your meeting objectives
- Options to impress colleagues and clients with unique technology options
- Ways to integrate technology to keep all participants focused and engaged
- And more!
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Learn which questions can make all the difference in your small meeting planning and experience
Small meeting planning typically begins with identifying the space you’ll use, a few pieces of equipment you’ll need and ordering any needed food and beverages. But small meetings can easily become big experiences with just a few impactful technology additions! With the right experts and solutions, meeting planners have the power to create small meetings that are collaborative, innovative and even transformative.
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Identify crucial areas where you can elevate your small meeting design, programming and participant experience. Knowing which questions to ask can guide your planning and set you up for success in meeting your unique goals.
Elevate the Impact of Your Next Small Meeting with the Right Tools and Technology
Download the dynamic Ultimate Small Meeting Setup Infographic to learn key resources that can empower you to enhance your impact.
With this asset, explore ways to:
- Improve engagement
- Elevate the ambiance and set the mood
- Streamline meeting operations
- Keep participants focused
- Reinforce brand visuals
- Instill confidence in your presenters
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Over 70 percent of meeting and event organizers believe networking and engagement will be the future of events. The challenge is how to do that. LED walls are one of the most flexible technology solutions you can use to breathe new life into your programming. From creating immersive environments to transforming presentations into interactive activities, LED walls can enhance indoor or outdoor meetings and events in myriad ways.
Let’s examine some use cases and applications where LED walls can support event goals to facilitate networking and improve engagement.
How do LED walls create more engaging and immersive environments?
“The No. 1 reason why we attend meetings is to interact with people,” says Encore Product Manager Damein Futch.
If you use LED to run keywords from the keynote and use it as a billboard to share critical ideas and information,” he says, “you can transform a cold space into a warmer place for people to connect to your event and each other."
“Instead of you telling me the Top 10 things I should remember, I learn because you’re using the billboard principle in the dining room.”
LED walls also allow you to change the environment without changing the space. “There’s an unlimited palette of opportunities,” Futch explains. For example, there might be a beach scene during the morning session, which turns into a sunset over a mountaintop for the general session.
“You can even put a transparent LED over a window in a breakout room.” This makes it possible to transport participants to different places, planets and emotional spaces without moving them from their chairs.
“Any time you want an interactive display behind something you want to sell or promote, you can use an LED wall,” Futch says. “You don’t have to worry about people walking through the cone of projection.” LED panels can be built to look like a product that you can transform into anything you want with striking visuals.
You may have seen LED walls used to show what people are experiencing while wearing virtual reality (VR) headsets or as a background layer for augmented reality (AR) activations. But have you heard about extended reality (XR)?
“Extended reality is a camera working with a media server and LED wall to create realistic background movement to give viewers the sense of being in another location,” Futch explains. It’s a technique used for TV/film productions to create immersive 360-degree sets. But the same technology can be used for events.
Futch says a professional meeting or event organizer’s use of LED walls is only limited only by their creativity, budget and opportunity. “The ROI of LED is exponentially greater than you see with other mediums. It costs more because it accomplishes more, and you can do more with it.“
A technology solution for all meeting types and formats
“Any time you have a screen or a wall, you can use LED,” Futch adds. “LED walls can be used in general sessions, breakout rooms, digital signage, creative elements, scenic and anywhere else, really.”
What does this look like in practice? The resolution and clarity provided by LED walls make them a good fit for medical meetings or any other gatherings where it’s essential to view high-contrast images. In general sessions, they can be used in place of traditional projections as scenic elements, or they may comprise the entire set. “LED walls don’t have to be rectangular or square,” Futch shares. “You can build and stagger them into any configuration you need.”
Another benefit? You’re not restricted to aspect ratios with LED walls the way you are with traditional projectors. You don’t have to worry about blending because you’re using one surface, whether it’s a window, wall, curved screen or even the side of a building. It can be as large or small as you need without compromising the resolution quality.
LED walls can also be used as creative accents. For example, if you wanted to use a projector for a presentation, you could wrap the presentation with LED walls to drive home the message.
No matter how they’re used, people’s eyes and attention naturally drift to LED walls because they’re so vivid and bright, which makes them an incredible tool for engagement. “You could even put one behind a registration desk,” Futch says. “And people will be drawn in.”
The benefits of using LED walls vs projectors
LED walls possess several technological advantages to projection equipment traditionally used, whether you’re creating scenic elements, relaying information or transforming spaces with projection mapping. These advantages enhance the participant experience and elevate the overall event.
Brightness is an additional advantage. “A projection always competes with stage lights or daylight,” Futch says. You never have to draw the curtains in a room with an LED wall. Examples of this can be seen within exhibit halls or outdoor venues.
Projectors are either rear-projecting or front-projecting. In both cases, a considerable amount of space is required to fit the ‘cone of projection.’ This isn’t the case with LED walls.
“You gain back seating and capacity for your attendees,” Futch informs. “You don’t have to worry about projection distance because everything is displayed on a flat surface.”
When light is projected, it bounces off a screen before it enters the participants’ eyes, making it a passive medium. In contrast, LED walls are an active medium. What they display is directly absorbed by the viewer. As Futch adds, “It is like your TV on steroids.”
It also offers increased opportunities for creative expression. “LED walls are visual LEGOs,” Futch explains. “With projectors, light [is] beamed at a source. With LED walls, the possibilities are endless when it comes to resolution and area covered.”
Think about the events you have coming up. How would you like to use LED walls to surprise and delight, educate and engage, or entertain your participants? We’d love to provide a free consultation on how this technology solution can help you achieve your meeting or event goals.
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Encore values the power of inclusion. That’s why we’re proud to create spaces of belonging and work to proactively diversify our team. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re excited to share a new way we’re putting our commitment to equity into practice with our Women in Audio Visual Technology (WAVE) program. We’re also delighted to also shine a spotlight on some of the trailblazing women of Encore and reflections from our leadership on why Women’s History Month matters to our organization.
Generating career opportunities for women at Encore
The WAVE initiative is part of our ongoing efforts to create career opportunities for women in the event production industry. The program features a pre-hire training certification, called Introduction to Event Technology, which is carefully designed to provide an overview of processes and best practices in the technology field. Anyone can take the course. The initiative also offers continuing education, a mentorship program and career mapping — all focusing on elevating women and identifying clear career paths to leadership and management positions.
Fostering community for women and allies
Knowing the role community support and knowledge-sharing can play in career and life empowerment. Encore offers seven business resource groups that enable members to develop deeper connections with colleagues. The Women of Encore business resource group serves as an inclusive community for women and their allies, providing an opportunity for conversation, mentorship, development and advocacy.
Honoring Encore award-winners and nominees
Diversity in our leadership helps push our industry forward in new ways. In fact, two of our award-winning teammates Donna Hubley, Encore Vice President of Field Sales, and Alyssa Freire, Encore Project Manager of Production, were recently honored in the 2023 Smart Women in Meetings Awards program for doing just that.
Because Encore had so many women nominated for the 2023 Smart Women in Meetings Awards, Smart Meetings also released a companion article, ‘Think Event Technology Is Still a Man’s World? Think Again,’ which features 15 additional women of Encore working in technology, sales, operations, production, human resources and management. Check out the article for an introduction to these pioneers, learn their approaches to life, advice for readers, and goals they’re working toward.
Reflections on Women’s History Month from
Encore Leadership
While we take a moment to celebrate the incredible women who propel our organization, industry and communities forward, our leadership is reflecting on what this month means to Encore. Here’s what they had to share:
Becky Sheehan, Chief Financial Officer
“I am thrilled to recognize and celebrate International Women’s History Month and continue to be both proud of and inspired by the women of the past and present. One particular highlight for us today is my observation that the goals of Encore are closely aligned to those of the UN Women organization as it pertains to gender equality.
The UN Women’s International Women’s Day theme — “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” — aligns well with the efforts Encore is making to encourage more women to enter the event production industry. For example, WAVE, or Women in Audio Visual Events, is an Encore program that focuses on generating career opportunities for women in our industry. More specifically, it’s a community where we can provide women with educational, training, and mentorship resources to be successful and ultimately become the next generation of leaders at Encore. This relates closely to another goal we have established to double representation of women in leadership positions at Encore.”
Toni Williams, Sr. Manager, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
“At Encore, we recognize that diversity is critically important, equity is a choice, inclusion is an action and belonging is the outcome we desire. Creating equitable spaces and opportunities for women isn’t just a matter of ethics or corporate responsibility. We have seen tangible results time and time again on how more diverse companies lure better talent and improve their decision making, customer orientation and employee satisfaction. All areas of diversity are important to our inclusive culture, and gender, racial and ethnic diversity are certainly competitive differentiators for companies in the same industry and country. As we honor Women’s History Month, we would be remiss not to acknowledge the broader impacts that creating equity for women, and other underrepresented and marginalized groups, has on the way we live and work.”
Ben Erwin, President and CEO
“We know our ability to best solve challenges comes from our team’s individual experiences — a capacity that grows with the diversity of the talent around the table. When women are invited to these conversations, we win. When women are given opportunities to sharpen their skillsets, we win. When women are empowered as leaders, we win. Our customers win. Our industry wins.
Women’s History Month reminds us of the role inclusion can play in progress . . . for women, people of color, or anyone marginalized or underrepresented. We know our team members are the key differentiator in the marketplace. This belief powers a culture of diversity, inclusion and motivates investments to grow opportunity with programs like WAVE and our Women of Encore business resource group, to promote brighter futures for women.”