Things move fast in the world of events
Articles and musings on things we find interesting. Hopefully you’ll find some of them useful…
[NOTE: We’re generally working for our lovely clients so don’t find much time to write. Updates may be few and far between!]
Producing virtual events
Last week we had the pleasure of taking part in a panel discussing the future of live events with Richard da Costa from Floating Harbour Films, Franco de la Croix-Vaubois of the Event [...]
A tale of tech cities
May's edition of Meetings & Incentive Travel Magazine (M&IT) featured a report on the how the UK's tech cities are leveraging their position to bring tech events to their region. [...]
Bespoke conference registration
Conference registration is not a glamorous subject. It’s necessary, fundamental even, but there’s nothing intrinsically exciting about it. From a delegate’s perspective registration should be a quick and painless process [...]
Wow – what a start to the year!
2018 has been a blast so far. Somehow we're already in May and we've been busy running a host of events, including for the United Nations Foundation. We've also been [...]
Venturefest Bristol+Bath, 17 Oct, 2017
They say good things come in threes and Venturefest Bristol and Bath is no exception. For the third time in as many years, Focal Point has been chosen as the [...]
Letting audiences programme events
Only our audiences truly know what they want to engage with. With that in mind, for a 400 delegate conference back in February, I deliberately left a third of the [...]
Designing an “Open Space”
with Sli.do
Event organisers are super organised. It almost goes without saying. So deciding not to plan a third of my recent conference programme was a massive break from the norm. "Why would [...]
Venturefest 2017 launch to be delivered by Focal Point
Great news! Venturefest Bristol and Bath will be back with a bang in 2017 - and we've been asked to deliver the launch event! Taking place at the brand new [...]
Events are like buses…
Wow - what a few of months it's been. With three events for three clients, including three months working in-house for TSB, it's been a busy time at Focal Point [...]
Showcase 2016 video released
Fresh from the success of the May event the organisers of the Business Showcase South West are already planning the next event for October 2016. Taking up even more of the [...]
3 reasons I love event health and safety
OK. So love may be taking a bit far, but I do think H&S is great. Hopefully this article will explain why, and encourage you to ensure H&S is given it's due attention on your [...]
Bloodhounds, silent discos and a sell out show!
Its been a busy couple of days for us here. The Business Showcase South West has just finished and by all accounts it was a great event. All 161 exhibition stands [...]
Focal Point appointed Ops. Director for BSSW 2016
Exciting news! We've been appointed Operations Director for Business Showcase South West 2016! Now in it's third year the showcase has moved to a new venue (Ashton Gate Stadium) and is THE major [...]
3 steps to sustainable badging
Recently a question came up on a LinkedIn group for event managers asking about sustainable badging. I wanted to post an image to the group of how I usually tackle this issue, [...]
Bristech 2015 video release
Check out the promo video from Bristech 2015. A sell-out first year event for the Bristol tech community. Focal Point were employed as freelance event managers for the show and will [...]
Venturefest 2015 featured in green events guide
Sustainability was at the front of our minds while working on Venturefest Bristol and Bath 2015 and we employed a range of strategies to limit the impact of the event. We're really [...]
Creating dynamic event spaces
If you ask people to describe the characteristics of a great event, one of the common responses is "dynamic". They are usually referring to the sense of energy, buzz and excitement generated when you [...]
Focal Point appointed Freelance Event Manager for Bristech 2016!
Focal Point were employed as freelance event managers for the first Bristech conference in 2015. It was a sell out event with more than 250 delegates, 18 speakers across 3 streams, [...]
COP21: We’re in!
After a long journey we've made it to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP21 in Paris. We're working on a freelance event management project for Bristol City Council at COP21. Security, as [...]