Corporate Events The Event Management Specialists are Expanding; Meet the New Faces at Corporate Events

Corporate Events is ever expanding, and we have taken on some superb new recruits who we know will slot intot he team here at Corporate Events and help to take our exciting event management company from strength to strength.

Paul Wright – Senior Project Manager Paul was previously with Conference Connections and VCL and has a vast experience of technically managing shows having started as an assistant Sound Recordist for Thames Television.

Paul brings a wealth of live events experience to Corporate Events and is looking forward to the challenge of the coming season.

Mike Neretrieks - Technician

Mike is an experienced technician and has worked on shows all over Europe; he has recently relocated from Colorado to Bristol (I know, why ?). After that sudden change of scene, Mike is keen to develop and improve on his technical skills on the wide range of event productions that Corporate Events roll out.

Jake Rundle – Trainee Warehouse/AV Tech

Jake, (or Jen’s Jake as he is known in the office) will be joining as a trainee technician. He is a fully qualified electrician having served an apprenticeship.

Part of the underlying Corporate Events HR ethos is to try and provide an engaging and exciting programme for young talent to develop and emerge. Corporate Events HR manager Jed Bowers comments: “Young people get a rough ride these days – if you don’t have the experience you can’t get a job, which is a bit harsh. Corporate Events like to try and give something back and people like Jake just need the chance to prove that they’ve got what it takes to do the job.”

Corporate Events go Back to Back at The Hilton Park Lane

September brings the last of the summer weather - and the start of the Park Lane Awards season proper. Corporate Events will be kicking off this season in some fine style with three major award event productions in the exclusive Hilton Park Lane.

From the global success of The International Wine Challenge through to The Great British Pub, with a bit of The Baking Industry in the mix as well, Corporate Events have quite a challenge to pull these three Award production events together in early September.

Account Manager Katie Lewis comments: “Any Park Lane award show is quite an undertaking. To be able to produce three shows in the same venue on three consecutive days takes a great deal of planning and preparation. You might think that it’s easy, but each client has a different audience and a totally different look and feel for their show - and let’s not forget - it is always their show - it’s the biggest night in their industry event calendar, so we have to ensure that each award show production is treated as a unique event in it’s own right.”

Katie continues: “Each night brings new and exciting challenges, with each evening’s audience coming from different industry sectors. Add to this the need to look after three sets of sponsors and special guest presenters; it takes a high degree of planning to ensure that each show is produced to the highest standards and there’s no breathing room between events – it’s all got to be perfectly planned when we walk through those doors at 4 am on the first morning.”

Technical Manager for Corporate Events Adrian Toulson concludes “Working at Hilton Park Lane is always a real buzz – it’s a globally recognized event space, so whenever we provide an award show production here, there is a high level of expectation. That we are doing three different evening awards one after the other adds to that expectation, but the team at the venue knows us well by now and we have a great working relationship, so the access and rig works like a well oiled machine.”

New faces at Corporate Events as The Growing Event Management Company Expands

Corporate Events are proud to announce another set of new arrivals at their Swindon facilities.

After a very successful start to 2012, Corporate Events have been recruiting the very best in the industry to further strengthen their existing technical crew and warehouse operational staff.

Operations Manager Adam Harris comments: “Since we moved to the new facilities in March this year. We have seen an increase in the volume and frequency of events we are producing and have chosen to re-invest in staff to make sure the quality of work we produce meets the exacting standards that we have become famous for within the industry.”

He continues “We feel that only by investing in good quality staff can we achieve excellence and - with the end of we have planned - it’s vital that those people understand how to put together a conference production or a Park Lane Award event.”

Corporate Events HR Manager Jed Bowers ads: “As a business, Corporate Events preach about the importance of planning for success, and that’s what we are implementing on the recruitment side. By getting the right staff in at the right time, our business model stays focused and efficient, allowing us to maintain our competitive price strategy while not making any compromises on the integrity of our overall service proposition.”

He continues “One of the key challenges that face any growing business is how and when to expand a workforce, and that is then compounded with the additional challenge of how we keep our staff trained and motivated. In this respect, we have just introduced a series of training and development plans for each member of staff, to ensure that they see working for Corporate Events as more than just a monthly pay cheque - it’s a real career step.”

Managing Director Andy Ashley concludes: “The business gives us tremendous access to some fantastic places around the world, so it is important that we have the best people on site to represent our brand and those that we work with. That’s why we employ so many people on PAYE instead of simply freelancing projects as they come in.”

Audio Visual Production of 150 Year Timeline of William Reed Business Media

Corporate Events provided a fantastic and opulent gala dinner event production incorporating full audio visual production. Check out the video of the unique and informative 150 year video timeline, illustrating the rich historical information of events that have occurred in the publishing lifetime of William Reed Business Media. This video was created by Corporate Events in-house audio visual team.

A Video of the Candy Ball - with Event Management by Corporate Events

During May 2012, Corporate Events produced the Candy Ball, a super hero event for Sweet Charity – the Charity for the UK Confectionery Industry. The video is taken from the Candy Ball gala dinner and features some aspects of the in-house audio visual production that Corporate Events created as part of the event management package, and provides an great insight into the fantastic creative event ideas we can provide to make any event a truly amazing affair.

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Corporate Events Invent the miPod

Corporate Events have designed and created a series of creative thinking and collaboration zones for use within events.

Called miPod, these simple yet elegant structures provide shape, definition and purpose to smaller breakout groups.

With the added advantage of these units coming as a white finished blank structure, clients can brand the space to extend the messaging from the plenary space to these remote workspaces.

Corporate Events Client Manager Ben Harrop comments: “We have found that – when we deploy the miPod structures – our clients get much better engagement and input from delegates within these spaces.

“The structure proves to be a popular way to extend the messaging from a plenary space, but in a more creative and themed area that perhaps we’d not be able to provide from within a traditional event breakout room.”

Corporate Events are able to deliver a number of the miPod units at events and each unit can be augmented with LED lighting features to add definition between zones, as well as full audio visual support.

Projection Mapping at The 2012 Olympics Opening

Once again, Projection mapping took centre stage on a global scale at the opening ceremony at The London 2012 Olympic Games.

The hotly awaited Danny Boyle spectacular included some incredible theatre and drama, as well as very clever and intelligent use of technology.

Corporate Events Creative Director Tim Christian comments: “This year has seen a real increase in the understanding of projection mapping in the wider world – first with Buckingham Palace for the Queens Jubilee and now the Olympics.

It puts the concept in peoples mind and makes it part of the conversation now, while only six months ago it was still seen as a bit of a dark art.

At Corporate Events, we are introducing Projection Mapping to a range of clients in different verticals, who are seeing the solution as a natural extension of our inherent creativity, which in turn brings something else to their events.”

Corporate Events Managing Director adds, “There is no doubt about it; when projection mapping is deployed with great creativity, it can really enhance an event and add huge impact to a ‘reveal’ moment. Seeing that projection mapping was used on the Olympics and understanding the massive exposure that it has enjoyed over the last few months means that our proposition around projection mapping is very pertinent and current.”

Tim Christian concludes: “As with all of these great new tools, it’s all about relevance – we are very careful how and when we propose projection mapping as it’s not right for everything, but used in the right context and environment, the impact is huge. The great thing for Corporate Events is our ability to provide a projection mapping showcase at our Swindon facility – clients get to come and see the creativity first hand and while it looks great on TV, until you’ve had that sensory experience yourself, clients can never guess how it would work for them.”