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A big thank you for your work, the event was really appreciated, and I think people could barely believe what they saw was real 😉. Please do thank all the technical teams, without them nothing would have been possible. Let’s debrief in a couple of days to work towards something with even more impact next year!

I would like to thank you and your teams for the TOP collaboration at our last week’s event “Women inspiring the Future”. As you probably noticed, it was for us a first and stressful first experience in the world of digital events. Thanks to your professional and calm approach, it was a seamless evening. It was in addition fantastic to collaborate with such a great team.

Many thanks for your help in making last week’s 2022 NATO Youth Summit happen. It was an event that went from in person with the Belgian Government, to virtual with CEPA in March, to finally hybrid at HQ at the end of April. It required a lot of adaptation. And the event showed that NATO can adapt just fine! There’s been a lot of positive feedback that Thursday’s event showed NATO’s ‘human side’. And it seems people liked it. So here’s to more of the same. Many thanks again for your contribution, big or small.

Last year we were asked to organise a NATO summit, within 6 months. We were asked to make sure NATO can distribute his message worldwide. We were asked to make sure all broadcasters worldwide get our footage and meet the highest standards possible. We were asked to deliver pictures of every VIP. While everyone thought it was impossible in such a short time, we succeeded, and were praised enormously. Two weeks ago we were asked to do the same, in 9 days time. Again it seemed impossible, but we met all the requirements and exceeded all expectations. I have the honour of accepting all the praise, and it was a lot, but everyone knows this is a team effort. You all worked extremely hard behind the scenes, and NATO would not have been able to send out a worldwide message if you weren’t supporting us. In only a few days we gathered a fantastic team. From 06.00am everyone was motivated to make sure we get the same result as last year. We did over 10 press conferences, 20 doorsteps, a G7 summit, over 10 studio interviews, countless beautiful photos, 125 edits,… I can’t express in words my gratitude, my pride in working with such a team. Dear all, colleagues, friends, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

The biggest issue with hybrid of virtual events or meetings is that poor sound quality, poor image, low internet connection make it very difficult for a virtual audience to follow an event or a meeting, resulting in quitting or disengagement. Through their unique expertise and high professionalism, the HyVent Experience team is able to set up outstanding audio/visual technologies and usage of virtual tools to engage and interact with the virtual audience. Virtual and in-person audiences are put on equal footing, resulting in total engagement.

Alain and his event team and partners have transformed our reach through virtual events in the last years. We have multiplied number of participants to our events by a factor 3 to 5, for example from 300 participants to 1,500 or from 900 to 2,700. With hybrid, we are now even able to also maintain networking amongst the in-person participants, while still reaching out to the large crowd in virtual. It allows us to align our entire organisation around the world much better than before. It has also positively influenced our culture and progressed our collaboration.

I brought the concept of Global Forum for GS1, gathering our people from around the world to see one vision, speak with one voice, and act as one organisation. Alain and the entire global event team developed it to a world-class event over the last eight years. Through creativity, usage of sophisticated audio visual and broadcasting techniques, and great content production, they create a huge impact and generate emotions by putting participants in the centre of everything. It helps aligning the entire federation as One. Alain also has the unique ability to understand the content and events as they are occurring and make immediate adjustments to make the events more meaningful and productive. It has always been a pleasure working with Alain and witness his creativity in real time.

Thank you and congratulations for an excellent Global Forum. Content was outstanding and the technology really supported the variety of speakers and sessions.

The virtual format has been great once again! A super way to have so many able to attend from across the globe! The Global Forum is such a stimulus for discussion, engagement and networking and somehow you have managed to pull that off in a virtual world.

GS1 Norway employees express great satisfaction with this years’ event, some also say it has been the best ever digital conference they have attended. Congratulations with this deserved feedback!

The event was easy to join and it all worked like clockwork -the content was extremely valuable.