Experience Inspiration

Subscribe on Itunes   News Digest The News Digest is a roundup of the latest talking points in the events industry designed to keep you up to date and get you involved in the discussion. Leading the debate, we have:   Charlotte Gentry formerly Wilson, Founder and CEO of Pure Events Edward Poland, Co-Founder of Hire Space Guest: Julian Saipe, Director of Zafferano   OLIO LAUNCHES FOOD SHARING APP How can the event industry tackle its food waste problem?   DESTINATION MARKETING Should there be greater collaboration between destinations?   AGENCIES NEED TO START CHARGING FOR THEIR SERVICES Will we see them charge for venue finding?   Let us know your thoughts and join the discussion on Twitter with the hashtag #EventLAB.     Inspired Experiences   We spoke to three people involved in creating exciting experiences that we reckon will thrill guests. If you’re an event planner or planning an event soon there’s certainly some inspiration to be found here.   Unlimited Brewing Unlimited Brewing specialised in creating bespoke beverages. Their services are popular with restaurants and events looking to take a new approach to engage their guests. We spoke to Neil Soni about how you can use personalisation and bespoke elements to better tell your brand's story at an event.   clueQuest clueQuest is a company that runs escape rooms - fully immersive puzzle experiences designed to be solved by a team. The first escape room opened in Tokyo around seven years ago and today there are around 3,000 operating globally. We spoke to Alexis King about escape rooms as team building activities and what events can learn about audience engagement.   Draughts London Alongside immersive experiences like escape rooms, cities are seeing a rise in activity based venues with trendy spots like Flight Club, Bounce and Puttshack offer games like Darts, Ping pong and Mini-golf to create a more experiential way to socialise over places offering more traditional hospitality. Alongside these activities, board games are seeing a massive surge in popularity and dedicated board game cafes are opening up across the country. We spoke to Draughts, a board game Cafe in Hackney to find out whether the unique social experience of playing a board game is something that could be incorporated into events.   Mentioned in the Episode City Harvest   Plan Z Heroes   Olio   Puttshack   Bounce   Flight Club   Anomalous Visuals   Conference News   James Heappey   Follow EventLAB For the latest EventLAB news and information on upcoming live events check out eventlab.online.   Pre-Register for EventLAB 2018 Tickets   You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram.   If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, you're opening a new venue or you're an events professional interested in appearing on the show, you can get in touch with us via email: [email protected]   Music: « Little Idea » from Bensound.com