Over the last 10 days, we’ve seen massive events such as Facebook’s F8, Mobile World Congress, IBM Think, and Oracle ModernCX announce that they were canceling their global conferences in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.

This epidemic is having a global impact and closer to home its decimating the meetings industry, and the question we have to start asking is how should planners, brand marketers, and professional speakers be thinking about the future of live events? 

TELECONFERENCING SOLUTIONS
Together with our audio-visual partners Encore Event Technologies, Australia’s leading event audio-visual supplier, and AV Media, one of New Zealand’s most innovative audio-visual companies, your delegates can meet in separate cities, or even join a meeting from home, connected as though they are in the one location; allowing social distancing and alleviating the need for travel or larger gatherings of delegates.

As the world is increasingly consuming more and more streamed content, events have shifted towards the virtual world as well.
To make virtual events happen, professionals need virtual event platforms. Here’s the top 5.