Event Management | Festivals | Virtual & Hybrid Events
Hybrid & Virtual Events
Looking to take your events to the next level? Let me help you create and manage online events that are engaging, interactive, and effective and are bespoke to your requirements and event goals.
My virtual and hybrid event management services include everything from planning and coordination to technical support and audience engagement. I understand the unique challenges and opportunities that come with virtual and hybrid events and have the skills and experience to make sure your event is a success. You can reach a wider audience, save on costs, and create an event that is memorable and impactful.
I specialise in creating fully bespoke and branded Virtual and Hybrid platforms that look beautiful, are intuitive and foster a real sense of community online.
I take a full service consultancy approach, and am platform agnostic. I will only suggest the best services and platforms with your event goals in mind and will take the technology, features, compatibility, audience size, demographics and budget into consideration.
Contact me today to find out more, or read more below about how I can help you with your next event!
Virtual & Hybrid Event Services
Worldwide reach, Increased accessibility, Brand visibility
I offer a variety of Virtual & Hybrid event services from full service management and building platforms, to designing an event identity, to consultations. Experience the future of events by combining the latest technology with proven event planning strategies to create engaging, interactive experiences for your attendees. From virtual trade shows and conferences to hybrid events that bring together both in-person and online attendees. I work with only the best production partners to ensure a seamless show from start to finish.
Event & Project Management
Using the best project management tools, I ensure that your virtual or hybrid event runs efficiently and effectively. I will create a detailed timeline, manage budgets, book suppliers, generate an event service plan, and coordinate with all stakeholders to ensure that your event runs smoothly and meets your goals and objectives.
I will provide full support and management across ticketing, registration, accessibility, style, branding, networking opportunities, sponsors, marketing and content.
Branding & Design
Branding is a crucial component of virtual and hybrid events, as it helps to establish the event's unique identity and creates a lasting impression on attendees. I will help you to build a bespoke designed platform from the ground up, or use existing platforms to implement your logo, event themes, visual elements, and messaging that reflect your brand and resonate with your audience to create a consistent look and feel across all of your event messaging to build your brand strength online.
Platform Adoption
Choosing the right event platform for you is key to delivering a successful event. I have experience of numerous platforms and the features they can offer and will only suggest the right platforms for your attendees and requirements. I'll ensure both you and the attendees are comfortable with the Platform and its features for smooth engagement.
Sponsor Activations & ROI
Giving Sponsors a high ROI is essential to the success of your event, and having them return year after year. Sponsor offerings for virtual and hybrid can include face to face networking, downloadable information packs, embedded videos, and sponsor branding across the platform. I will help you to create sponsor packages, and provide you with analytics post event to keep them coming back year after year.
Multi-track & Breakout Rooms
These innovative event formats provide attendees with a more customised and interactive experience, while also allowing companies to maximise the potential of their events. Breakout rooms allow attendees to participate in smaller focused sessions, which can be tailored to their individual interests, and provides attendees with opportunities to connect with others and engage in deeper discussions. Multi-track hybrid events allow hosts to offer a variety of sessions and activities, catering to the diverse interests of their attendees. This format provides attendees with more options and flexibility.
Data & Analytics
Hybrid & Virtual events provide new ways to quantify the success of your event. Quantitative data collation is essential to optimise the post event evaluation. This can include unique viewers, watch time, location and demographics, and sponsor stand engagement. I can give you a full breakdown of analytics in a way that is meaningful to you.
Attendee Communications
Ensuring your attendees have a steady flow of detailed but concise information about your upcoming event is key to ensuring they have the best user experience. This can include onboarding, key sessions, and letting them know of any unique features they can access during the event, such as speed networking.
Content Creation & Storytelling
I can help you to develop a customised content strategy that meets your specific goals and objectives to help you maximise the impact and reach of your event by providing you with a range of materials that can be used for marketing and promotional purposes, including presentations, videos, and social media content. Whether you need keynote presentations, break-out sessions, or interactive activities, I can create high-quality, engaging content that will keep your attendees entertained during the event, or increasing the reach post event with catch up and video replay services.
Simulive
Simulive mitigates any live production risks by using pre-recorded content, played out on a specific time and date as if it were a live event. All attendees joining a Simulive session will be watching your pre-recorded content at the same time, so their participation in the session chat will be fully in sync with your content.
Virtual & Hybrid Event Platforms
Choosing the best platform for your event is essential to providing the best attendee experience.
I have experience using a wide variety of platforms, and I am platform agnostic and will work with you to determine to the best platform for your event.
Zoom
Hopin
Airmeet
BigMarker
Virtual & Hybrid Events Testimonials
Kerrie has evolved from an exceptional Senior Events Manager to helping co-design, set up, deliver and produce technically complex hybrid and virtual events globally.
From running Space Defence pitches live across 12 countries in 5 time zones, bidding for Ministry of Defence funding with the global press watching to building remote studios overseas with a mix of in-situ and online speakers and globally-renowned comedians, each event delivery was faultless.
Kerrie has super skills of remaining calm, understanding and conveying complex technical needs and always ensuring that every client need is taken care of. Her rapport and relationship handling is second to none.
Kerrie runs and manages events with ease, with which she understands, utilises and adopts new technologies as they are transforming our working world is critical to helping clients succeed.
Tiffany St James
Consultancy Founder & Voted Top 25 Women who have shaped the British Digital Industry
Previous Projects
Global Air & Space Chiefs Conference
Hybrid online and in venue
A 2 day hybrid event from London, with virtual attendees joining from across the globe. A branded and bespoke platform featuring user led viewing, agenda, speakers, sponsors, media and networking rooms. Sponsor ROI with individual pages with downloadable content and embedded videos, along with a unique audio spatial video chat for networking. On demand available post event.
Creating The Future
Virtual event hosted from live studio
A UK tech and future focused virtual conference and seminar to engage with customers to build brand value with impactful imagery and branding. Live streamed from a studio hub, with live speakers brought in remotely from across the globe. An on demand library was made accessible post event.
#ASKWestminster COVID Campaign with Nadhim Zahawi
Virtual Event streamed to multiple channels
A council and gov campaign to increase the uptake of the Covid vaccination within communities within Westminster Council. Live streamed to YouTube, Facebook and via the online platform with no barriers to entry. A live Q&A from participants from all 3 channels.
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Making a Positive Impact
Virtual event hosted from live studio
A 2 day virtual conference featuring top level speakers both in studio from Jersey and remotely using 'remote packs' sent to speakers homes in the UK that included laptops, lighting and remote control. Required very specific branding to replicate the original website.
Defence Space 2020
Virtual Event
In the midst of covid, a fully virtual 2 day event with speakers joining from across the world from different time zones on a bespoke 'mini-site' platform. Required speaker pre-checks and onboarding. Embedded within the event was a quick fire pitch session from Australia to Hawaii. Strong focus on branding and sponsor/participant engagement.
Audio Spatial Networking Rooms
Virtual World 'Mini Metaverse'
A unique audio-spatial video chat placed in 2D spaces online. Users can move themselves around the space to gather in groups and chat on video in real time. Perfect for building copies of existing places, or creating a whole new space or world to engage with.
'An Audience with' series
Virtual Zoom Webinar
A series of Zoom Webinars to engage the Association members and provide thought leadership from top speakers. Recorded and edited for on demand viewing post event.
Benefits of Hybrid & Virtual Events
Virtual and Hybrid Events allows attendees to participate remotely using their computer or mobile device. Benefits of hosting a virtual event, or upgrading your physical event to hybrid include:
Wider reach: Virtual events can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection, which means that you can reach a larger worldwide audience than you would with an in-person event.
Cost savings: Virtual events eliminate the need for additional travel, accommodation, and venue expenses, which can greatly reduce the overall cost of the event.
Flexibility: Virtual events can be recorded and made available for later viewing, which allows attendees who couldn't make the live event to catch up at a later date.
Time-saving: With virtual events, attendees can participate from the comfort of their own home or office, saving them time and travel expenses.
Increased Engagement: Virtual and Hybrid events can provide interactive features like live polls, Q&A sessions, and chat rooms that can increase engagement and audience participation.
Environmental friendly: Virtual events can reduce the carbon footprint of an event, as it eliminates the need for travel and accommodation, which can have a significant environmental impact.
Increased accessibility: Virtual events can provide increased accessibility to attendees that may have made it difficult for them to attend an in-person event. Live transcriptions and translating can also be added for further accessibility.
Data collection: Virtual events can provide easy-to-track attendance, engagement, and other metrics which can be used to measure success and improve future events.
Case Study
Defence Space - Air & Space Power Association
Virtual & Hybrid Event
OBJECTIVES:
To bring my expertise in creating interactive, technology-driven, and branded hybrid event mini-site for a previously in person event for The Air and Space Power Association, in conjunction with the MOD. It was essential that the virtual conference was very secure for safety reasons, but everyone who registered was able to gain entry into the platform with ease. Provide a return on investment for sponsors and engaging both in-person and virtual audiences. To provide a platform where audiences can ask questions, and foster a sense of community through interactive experiences.
WHAT I DID:
Working alongside one of my favourite Production partners, Groovy Gecko, we built an entire conference website to provide a seamless and branded experience for attendees, including a welcome page, agenda, speakers, sponsors, networking facilities, and media hub. I managed the project from start to finish which included regular updates to the teams, onboarding of over 50 international speakers and their presentations, content creation, and delivered a unique audio-spatial networking and sponsor experience. Within the event, was a smaller event for 'International Space Pitch Day' which we had to embed within the conference seamlessly, which allowed audiences to see 10 minute pitches with presentations from around the globe, live, for a prize of £800,000 from the UK and US governments. The conference consisted of live and pre-recorded sessions, and featured an on-demand service post event.
RESULTS: The conference was a huge success with 651 registrations and 731 unique live viewers. I received positive feedback from the Air & Space Power Association and the Ministry of Defense for the high level of interaction and the branded experience of the online platform. I successfully managed the challenges of international speakers in different time zones and ensured a seamless connection between them, their hosts, and their presentations. The platform's interactive elements, such as the QR code for mobile app-based questions and the International Space Pitch Day, added to the overall success of the event and fulfilled the objectives of providing a memorable and engaging experience for all involved.